"He may get the blood, but I'll get the glory, and that fear is my ticket home."

Christians all over the world will gather and celebrate J.C.'s re-birthday this Sunday. Big deal. You want to know who rose from the dead way more times?

Jason Voorhees, a mentally handicapped child who drowned in a lake while camp counselors were off having sex, and grew up to be an unstoppable killing machine in a hockey mask.

And what about Freddy Krueger, the child murderer who was burned to death and came back as a dream demon to slash up teenagers with his finger knives in their sleep?

In honor of Easter, the coming of spring, and the general spirit of re-birth, this week's Thursday Thriller is Freddy vs. Jason.

The movie starts with Freddy (Robert Englund) feeling blue because no one remembers him, and if they don't remember him, they don't dream about him, and if they don't dream about him, he can't kill them?

You can relate, right?

So he needs to stir up a bloody panic on Elm Street by appearing to Jason (Ken Kirzinger) in a dream as Jason's mother, and telling him to go murder the fornicating kids there. Jason's rotting organs inflate and off he goes to do Freddy's bidding.

One impressive kill in a folding bed later and the teenagers start to remember Freddy, but the memory isn't strong enough for Freddy to do any slashing of his own.  Just as he's about to grow into his power and give Katharine Isabelle the claw, Jason runs her through with his machete, and causes a huge, fiery scene in a cornfield rave. Not only did Freddy not get his kill, but Jason totally stole the show, so now Freddy's pissed.

Horror fans seem divided on this 2003 Ronny Yu film. Some downright hate it, possibly because it does not definitively answer who wins. Those who did like the movie seem to disagree about the outcome depending on which villain is their favorite. The hotly debated final scene leaves room for a sequel which we never got to see.

All horror movies do that, though. Monsters never really die. My opinion is any clear victory would have been a disservice to either character. The point is the mayhem. As the scenes flip between the dream world and reality, you get to see cool stuff like Freddy bouncing Jason around the boiler room like a pinball.

If you're more of a Jason fan and have said, "Jason would tear Freddy's arm off and shove that glove up his ass," you get to see that, too, more or less.

My real question for the haters is if you ever really loved the Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th series, why would you pick now to start splitting hairs over things like good acting or a plausible story. It's an epic battle with mayhem all around.

Freddy vs. Jason streams on Netflix.