Save for perhaps Halloween's Michael Myers, there's no cinematic slasher more iconic than A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger and Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees. But, between the two, which of them has tallied up the most kills? Both have done quite a bit of killing, but one has far more under his belt than the other.

Note that the kills in 2009's Friday the 13th and 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street were not included for consideration. Furthermore, the Jason-free installments of the Friday the 13th series — e.g. Part V: A New Beginning — were not included. This also includes Sean S. Cunningham's 1980 classic Friday the 13th, which did feature Jason, but only in a hero's dream and a tragic villain's memory.

Counting Jason's On-Screen Kills

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Jason, of course, made his true introduction in Friday the 13th Part 2. That film — which many fans consider superior to Sean S. Cunningham's original — had him killing the same number of people his mother did in the first film. Specifically, nine. Friday the 13th Part III then began a trend that would continue throughout much of the franchise, i.e. an escalating kill count. Specifically, in Part III, Jason takes out a dozen individuals. This is also when his kills started to get a bit more creative, such as splitting a hand standing Andy in half groin first or squeezing Rick's eyes literally out of his head.

RELATED: Original Friday the 13th 'Final Girl' Joins Crystal Lake SeriesFriday the 13th: The Final Chapter again upped the kill count, this time to the unlucky number 13. A little wink at the audience, considering it was supposed to be the last installment of the Friday the 13th saga.

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But The Final Chapter was nothing compared to when he came back for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. In that ahead-of-its-time meta-comedy horror classic, he murders a whopping 18 cops and teens. But things got slightly toned down for Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, which still added 15 kills to Jason's count. Ironically enough, the film received more MPAA butchering than even Jason could find himself capable of.

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Jason then concluded his Paramount years by setting a record of 20 kills in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. With that being said, he was barely in Manhattan long enough to do any killing, even if Julius' boxing-related death is the most hilarious moment of the franchise.

Finally, Jason's New Line Years took his kill count to ridiculous heights. Before he descends in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, the hockey-masked mountain body-swaps his way to a further 22 kills. He matched this figure in the space-set Jason X before finally wrapping up with the vast majority of Freddy vs. Jason's 21 kills. Specifically, 20, leaving Freddy only with his torturing and inevitable evisceration of Mark Davis.

Counting Freddy's On-Screen Kills

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This disparity is also fairly applicable to the franchises as a whole. Freddy is more methodical, always favoring sadistic toying over a quick stabbing. This was seen right from the jump in Wes Craven's masterful A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Tina Grey's wall-crawling demise ranks high in the franchise, if not at the very top, but Johnny Depp's Glen Lantz also gets a memorable sendoff via bed-born blood geyser. And they weren't the only two Freddy murdered, as Rod Lane and Marge Thompson also met their less-than-dreamy ends.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge had the titular dream stalker pulling possession duty for much of the runtime, so both of Jesse Walsh's kills count as Freddy's. The sequel more than doubled the tally of the original for a total of nine, six of whom are killed by Freddy while awake at a particularly eventful pool party.

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Six is also the number for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, which saw Freddy dispatch of many very likable characters, including original 'Final Girl' Nancy Thompson. The same goes for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, but instead of Nancy being one of the six deaths, it's Dream Warriors' final girl Kristen Parker.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, however, cut Dream Warriors and Dream Masters' tallies in half. With that being said, one of the three is an A Nightmare on Elm Street all-timer. Freddy force-feeding Greta her own organs is a horrid sight to behold, and far more effective than the silly comic book-themed kill later in the film.

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The original Nightmare series low point, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, gave him five more before he went out the door himself. This includes two flashback murders: His step-father and his wife. Krueger's creator then came back for Wes Craven's New Nightmare. But, the meta-quasi-sequel only tallied the dream demon — Or, rather, his souped-up doppelganger — four kills, just like in the original.

Jason Is the Clear Winner

As mentioned, Freddy vs. Jason gives Krueger a single kill, but there's an argument to be made that that number is low. For instance, a counselor is seen hanging dead in Freddy's arms during Lori's Crystal Lake dream. Furthermore, it's revealed that Freddy once took the appearance of Lori's father in order to kill her mother. But that took place outside the film's events, as did Freddy's murder of Mark Davis' older brother.

It's also unclear if those events actually played out the way Freddy is leading the characters and audience to believe. Whereas in Freddy's Dead the flashback kills are confirmed and canon.

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So, with his single kill in that clash, Freddy holds a total of 38. That may look like a considerable figure but, all in all, Jason has a total of 151 kills. The victor is clear, but time will tell if the upcoming Crystal Lake Peacock prequel series will be the project to boost Jason's lead.