Continuity mistake: When the two guys are out in the corn field smoking weed the kid is looking at a glass and a jar while holding them up. In the next shot the glass and jar is lowered and he is looking at the other guy. (00:39:50)
Continuity mistake: When Will and Lori are driving in the van you see a car's headlights behind them in a close up shot. However, in the previous wide angle shot, there was no car driving behind them. (00:46:25)
Continuity mistake: When Freddy, disguised as Mark's brother, approaches Mark saying he's gonna send them a message, the dirt on Mark's face differs between the shots. (00:49:05)
Continuity mistake: When the sheriff says, "Or so help me God I will lock you up," to Stubbs, you see the sheriff lift his hand with the cigar up. When it cuts his hand is down. (00:51:00)
Continuity mistake: When Will says "Let's tie the bitch up" you see Kia lifting her hand up. When it cuts her hand is down. (00:53:55)
Continuity mistake: When the teens enter the mental institution to get the dream suppressant drug, it shows a security guard drawing his pistol in alert to an intruder banging on a door. The next shot cuts to show the response of two teens hearing a single shot fired, and then cuts back to show the security guard under the door with four big dents from Jason and two bullet holes. The holes are located at the top right hand corner of the door and the other near the door handle. (00:56:20)
Continuity mistake: In one scene a security guard gets squashed by a door. It then pans over the door, and you can see large grey marks in the door, from where it's been bashed in by Jason. The dents are quite different from when the camera pans over the door, to the wideshot. (00:56:25)
Continuity mistake: At the institution when they find the coma patients, Will picks up some papers from the patient's charts. The way Will holds the papers differs in the shot when Lori says "Who would do this to people?" (00:57:05)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Linderman and the deputy is watching Freeburg throwing all the Hypnocil pills down the drain, they are looking through a glass. Then you see Jason coming up from behind lifting his left arm with the machete reflected in the window. When it cuts he lifts his arm again but this time it is his right arm. (00:59:05)
Continuity mistake: When Jason slams his machete in to the panel and gets electrocuted, the panel is pretty damaged. When it cuts to him grabbing onto Stubbs, it shows the panel again, much less damaged. (00:59:10)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the teen tranquilizes Jason and gets cut in half, we see the two parts of the body in the left side of the hallway. After a few scenes, when the camera gets a close-up of the bodyparts, we see one in the left side of the hallway and the other one in the right side. (01:03:43)
Continuity mistake: In the boiler room in Jason's "dream", the container that pins Jason to the floor lands directly on top of him. However, in the close-up of it still pinning him down, you see Jason's upper-body sticking out to the side. (01:03:50)
Continuity mistake: When Kia removes Jason's mask we see Linderman holding on to his knee with his finger out. When it cuts his fingers are clenched. (01:10:05)
Continuity mistake: When Jason throws Linderman to the wall he gets impaled by a sharp object stuck to the wall. However as Linderman is flying against the wall before hitting it the object isn't there. (01:13:40)
Continuity mistake: When Freddy and Jason get hit by the cart at the construction site, they land next to each other on the dock. But in the next shot, we see Jason getting up quite a distance away from Freddy. (01:20:10)
Continuity mistake: After Freddy and Jason lands on the pier you see Freddy crawling facing forward. When it cuts Freddy is suddenly looking backwards at Jason. (01:20:15)
Continuity mistake: In the end of the movie when Jason comes through the water stabbing Freddy with his own glove, you can see the spikes only coming out of Freddy's chest. When it cuts to Freddy falling to his knees, the whole fist and parts of his armwrist suddenly has gone through his chest. (01:24:00)
Continuity mistake: When the girls are at Lori's, just after Kia asks them if they think she needs a nose job, the lights flicker. When they flicker Kia is holding a compact in her left hand and she begins to close it. Both hands are up by her face but then the angle changes to a wider shot and her left hand is empty and on her lap and the compact is in her right hand as she places it on the sofa.
Continuity mistake: In the fight scene on the pier, just after Freddy has sliced off Jason's fingers, Jason blocks the machete, Freddy slashes him with the glove and then cuts Jason's chest with the machete and raises the machete for a downward blow. They are now standing face to face. However, when Freddy makes this cut, Jason's back is all of a sudden turned, enabling Freddy to cut his leg from behind. There was no time for him to turn around between cuts.
Continuity mistake: When Jason crashes through the cabin wall and slashes the teen, a crate on Jason's right foot alternates from being on / off between shots.
Answer: This is one of those questions where we'll probably never know the real reason because different people involved have different stories as to why Kirzinger was picked over Holder. Holder himself has said he doesn't know why he didn't reprise the role, especially since he was told he would and was given a script. Some accounts say Yu wanted Jason to tower over Freddy and Kirzinger is 2" taller than Holder. One of the casting directors said Yu thought Holder's version of Jason was too campy. Meanwhile, Yu said it was New Line Cinema's decision to recast Holder because they want to change the direction of the film and used this film as a reboot of the series.
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