Even with a blackout, "Freddy vs. Jason," the horror match-up made in hell, sliced and diced its way to $36.4 million at the box office. "S.W.A.T." fell to second place, earning $18.6 million in ...

Think of "Freddy vs. Jason" as a kind of cinematic analogue of the Iran-Iraq war: It's overlong, it's hard to tell which one's the bad guy, and it's filled with lots of senseless carnage on both ...