**This post contains spoilers**
Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) is on a killing spree in Springwood. After years of intricate and coordinated planning to erase his name from the town, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is back to pick up where he left off during his bloody killing sprees as the Springwood Slasher.
The teenagers of Springwood aren’t safe on the streets, or in their dreams. Who’s going to stop Freddy and Jason’s rampages? The police? The adults? Parents? Nope. Confirming Freddy Krueger’s existence opens a big can of worms, exposing a decades long coverup for a lot of dirty laundry.
Naturally, the teens have to take matters into their own hands. Lori Campbell (Monica Keena) unknowingly lands on a spot on Freddy’s radar. Lori is already dealing with a lot. A complicated and sometimes uncomfortable relationship with her father, Dr. Campbell (Tom Butler), she misses her old boyfriend, Will Rollins (Jason Ritter), and Lori rejects Blake (David Koop) as a planned replacement for Will.
Freddy’s plan? He wants to use Jason as his personal assassin to inject fear into Springwood. After Lori’s friend, Gibb (Katharine Isabelle) joins a lengthy list of murdered victims during a disastrous cornfield party, it’s clear Lori needs help to fight back.
Will Rollins escapes from Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital during a rainstorm with his friend, Mark Davis (Brendan Fletcher). Will joins Lori, Lori’s friend, Kia (Kelly Rowland), Charlie Linderman (Chris Marquette), Bill (Kyle Labine), and Deputy Scott Stubbs (Lochlyn Munro).
Together, Lori and the others are determined to eliminate Freddy (with Jason’s help). But taking out Freddy is never as simple as going from point A to point B, and so on. It doesn’t matter how tightly structured the plan is, or if all the right pieces fall into place, when they’re supposed to. The razor gloved demon always finds a way to slip through the cracks.
Lori is a mess throughout the majority of the movie. Lots of screaming and crying. Lori is a hopeless romantic, she panics more than once, but it’s all understandable. She’s tired. She’s exhausted, simply falling asleep comes with fatal consequences, AND Jason is lurking in the shadows? That’s a lot of pressure to deal with for a kid, who’s still in high school.
But Monica Keena brings the essential fiery emotions to Lori during the big finale. When Lori finally learns the truth about Freddy murdering her mother, she, with Will by her side, steps up to put an end to Freddy’s maniacal bloodlust. The look of rage on Keena’s face before she swings Jason’s machete to chop off Freddy’s head is just perfect. It’s the look of a woman, who was fed up. She was tired of running and hiding, and Lori was truly determined to kill Freddy.
Lori and Will making it to the end as the sole survivors was a predictable outcome. Everyone else? Well, you could say they were just there to add to Freddy and Jason’s high kill counts, but there’s no denying Lori Campbell earned her spot on the list of final girls, who fiercely made the decision to stand and fight against Freddy. You also have to appreciate the cool little details attached to Lori’s character. She lives in Nancy Thompson’s house, and Keena’s character is named after two legendary horror heroines!
Yes, I know Freddy VS Jason ends with the famous unresolved cliffhanger, reminding the audience that Freddy is still out there somewhere, and it’s only a matter of time before he terrorizes Springwood again. Still, Lori delivered a crushing blow to Freddy’s plans. She played a big role in the seemingly never-ending fight against Freddy Krueger, so she deserved some peace, and a shot at living a normal life with Will.
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