Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare (1991)

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• jd c

  
  Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare may not be one of the best in the series, but you have to admit it's hilarious. This is Krueger at his funniest. NOT scariest, NOT meanest, just funniest. And I don't mean the characters are so funny (although sometimes they are), but… More
  Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare may not be one of the best in the series, but you have to admit it's hilarious. This is Krueger at his funniest. NOT scariest, NOT meanest, just funniest. And I don't mean the characters are so funny (although sometimes they are), but Freddy steals the show with his demented sense of humor. This movie is damn funny. It's the most slapstick-ish one in the series. It plays off like a violent cartoon for adults. It's like a movie that knows it's bad but has a good time making fun of itself. That works! There are no scares, no gore, no tension...it's just joke, after joke, after joke. Maybe not all 600 jokes are funny, but I'm sure you'll find about 300 that are. And is that bad? Is a movie that makes you giggle a sucky movie? Why would it be? I like laughing, and Freddy's Dead made me laugh. It's like one big joke, almost a spoof. So for it's worth, this joke rocked. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare is purely fun entertainment. Recommended. <a href="http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm89/JDHallowEEn/HorrorQf/?action=view&current=ElmStreet6.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm89/JDHallowEEn/HorrorQf/ElmStreet6.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

• Jeff "

  
  This is the weakest film in the series, yet. Just when you thought Freddy's Revenge was the worst sequel, this one tops it. At first, I used to love it, but now, I always notice something wrong with the film. The acting sucks, the kills are are cartoonish,Freddy looks like… More
  This is the weakest film in the series, yet. Just when you thought Freddy's Revenge was the worst sequel, this one tops it. At first, I used to love it, but now, I always notice something wrong with the film. The acting sucks, the kills are are cartoonish,Freddy looks like he's made of rubber and the overall film fails to deliver on anything that was great in the previous films. The "end" of Freddy is so lame, it's silly. The film is more comedic than anything and really isn't that great to begin with. The film does have great moments, such as a cameo by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, and Tom Arnold, not even that can redeem this film. The idea was great, but execution was poorly done, and thus Freddy's dead ends being the weakest sequel in the series.

• Conner R

  
  Definitely a little more comical that I would've liked, but it does have a lot more back story and screen time for Freddy. None of the sequels besides part II really captured the magic of the first, but this is the closest it came. Just having some great moments from Freddy are… More
  Definitely a little more comical that I would've liked, but it does have a lot more back story and screen time for Freddy. None of the sequels besides part II really captured the magic of the first, but this is the closest it came. Just having some great moments from Freddy are worth it.

• Anthony L

  
  This was a bit rubbish this one, I guess you need to watch it in 3D to see how it was really intended!?

• Jason O

  
  "Freddy's Dead" could've been a lot better than it was. It's the worst movie from the Nightmare On Elm Street series. The main thing I didn't like about it was that it wasn't scary at all, in fact, it's more corny than it is scary. It seems like… More
  "Freddy's Dead" could've been a lot better than it was. It's the worst movie from the Nightmare On Elm Street series. The main thing I didn't like about it was that it wasn't scary at all, in fact, it's more corny than it is scary. It seems like the director tried to make some parts of the movie funny, such as when Freddy is controlling one of his victims in a video game. But it's not funny either, it's corny. In this final chapter from the Nightmare On Elm Street series, Freddy haunts his daughter and her friends. The only real good thing about the movie is that it has good special effects. Other than that, it's a major disappointment when you compare it to the other movies in the series. I wouldn't recommend getting "Freddy's Dead." NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000.

• Dean !

  
  A half decent entry to the long running series.

• vieras e

  
  What this film lacks in scariness it sure makes up in funniness!

• Curtis L

  
  What one was this again?

• Cassandra M

  
  I love most of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies(number 2 really sucked. The final Freddy movie wasn't to bad. In my opinion they are a lot better than the Friday the 13th movies. However, I wish this movie had more guts and gore and was more scarier. Don't get me wrong I… More
  I love most of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies(number 2 really sucked. The final Freddy movie wasn't to bad. In my opinion they are a lot better than the Friday the 13th movies. However, I wish this movie had more guts and gore and was more scarier. Don't get me wrong I love Freddy's sense of humor but I love to see people get butchered into little pieces. I also loved how they showed Freddy as a human being in the last Freddy movie. Robert Englund is a sweetie. =)

• Lafe F

  
  Back on track after Elm Street 5's departure, Freddy is his usual joke-cracking self, with a pop video soundtrack. I loved this movie. the 3-D journey inside Freddy's brain made it even more appealing. The production values were high enough, though lacking in a few areas.… More
  Back on track after Elm Street 5's departure, Freddy is his usual joke-cracking self, with a pop video soundtrack. I loved this movie. the 3-D journey inside Freddy's brain made it even more appealing. The production values were high enough, though lacking in a few areas. There was a nice variety of dream sequences. The theme of this movie was "child abuse"; each kid suffered from neglect or abuse of some sort. This theme continued with discovering which of the kids in the movie was Freddy's abused child, and how did Freddy's abusive upbringing contribute to his own murderous personality. Once again, we have fantastic dream sequences with great art direction. I love how one of the kids is brought in a killer videogame by Freddy. The opening dream scene had a great tribute to the Wizard of Oz, done Elm Street style. It was great to see Yahphet Kotto as a dream doctor, helping the kids defeat Freddy. Note: this is the Final Nightmare. Freddy would be killed at the end of this movie, but I found it somewhat anti-climactic and disappointingly done with CGI enhancements and obscured by the 3-D effect. I expected a bigger and more-deserving death for Freddy after all the harm he caused in the last six films. I will admit that his death looked funny and painful at the same time however.

• Tim B

  
  I saw this in the theatre, complete with the old school 3D glasses. They didn't really work for me. Goes for silliness more than scaryness. Not my cup of tea.

• danny d

  
  i think it was like all the others

• Jason S

  
  I liked this one and have rented it a few times.

• Steve B

  
  Gets an extra 1/2 star for the inclusion of Alice Cooper in the cast.

• Dean M

  
  I finally watched it with use 3-D glasses in the cinema at the first time. Amazing horror, scary and action that 3D sequences only run for 10 minutes before the end credit.

• Emily A

  
  This one came together really well, and was a nice bookend to the series. It was really interesting to look into Freddy's past as a janitor with a family before he became a monster, and the mythology of the first five is maintained through the new characters. I love the way they… More
  This one came together really well, and was a nice bookend to the series. It was really interesting to look into Freddy's past as a janitor with a family before he became a monster, and the mythology of the first five is maintained through the new characters. I love the way they subtley fracture reality in these movies, until it's tooo late for the characters to wake up. Breckin Meyers' death was especially entertaining.

• Matthew Y

  
  Freddy's Dead was supposed to be The Final Nightmare. The producers wanted to end the series before it became saturated and bland (as if it wasn't there already) and they sort of succeeded in that, even though a non-direct sequel, remake and co-op film with Jason were all… More
  Freddy's Dead was supposed to be The Final Nightmare. The producers wanted to end the series before it became saturated and bland (as if it wasn't there already) and they sort of succeeded in that, even though a non-direct sequel, remake and co-op film with Jason were all made. The initial main series pretty much concluded here. The film starts off with an intriguing notion of what Freddy would do after he's killed just about every teenager in town. He looks to expand his market and uses his *surprise* only child as a means to do so. The movie shows Freddy at his most cartoonish, he's like a homicidal Bugs Bunny this time around, and the movie is easily one of the weakest of the series. Freddy's Dead failed for me mostly because of the extreme lack of finality that the film promised. Freddy dies in one of the least convincing ways (the first, third and fourth films had much more satisfying endings) and there's no real explanation why this would work where other methods had clearly failed. The effects work is OK but considering the quality of some of its predecessors I found it to be very lacking. The series didn't end on a very positive note unfortunately. SERIES OVERVIEW: The Nightmare on Elm Street series is an interesting one among the Slasher Horror movie franchises. It was very up and down in quality but at the end of the day produced more decent flicks than any of the other series (The original, the third and New Nightmare especially). In fact if you comprised a list of the top 100 Slasher movies you'd see more Nightmare on Elm Streets than any other franchise. Great effects and set designs plus a legendary antagonist made this original run memorable and full of solid Horror movie moments.

• Lea L

  
  Freddy Krueger returns once again to haunt both the dreams of his daughter and Springwood's last surviving teenager. ........... I really enjoyed this installment. More funny then scary but still good.

• Erin C

  
  I actually liked this one better than the others. Probably because it told more of a story than the others and it tied everything together.

• Lord N

  
  I have now come to an end of the traditional Freddy movies. I still have to see Freddy Vs Jason and the remake, but for the earlier stuff, I'm all done here. Thank God. Acting: This ranks as some of the worst acting I have ever seen. It's gotten to a point where Freddy… More
  I have now come to an end of the traditional Freddy movies. I still have to see Freddy Vs Jason and the remake, but for the earlier stuff, I'm all done here. Thank God. Acting: This ranks as some of the worst acting I have ever seen. It's gotten to a point where Freddy isn't Freddy anymore. Robert Englund plays him as a washed up comedian with no brain and homicidal tendencies. It was absolutely pathetic. The whole cast was just miserable. I really liked Yaphet Kotto in Alien. It's too bad that he did stuff like this. Completely shameful performances. Nothing redeemable in this category at all. 0/10 Plot: Horrible. Just horrible. I thought that they weren't trying at all with the last one. But this...pathetic. I can't even think up enough negative words for how bad the plot is. It's just nonsense. Pure unbridled nonsense. What bozo looked at this plot and said "yeah, that's a good idea" I'd say more but as you all know, I have a strict policy about not giving away any details of the plot. All I can really say is, 0/10 Screenplay: If I hated the rest of the film, I hated this. The film starts off with a big rip-off of the twister scene form The Wizard of Oz. It was totally shameless. Also, Freddy isn't just saying dumb puns when he kills anymore. They are now over 90% of what he is saying. His first line was a bad rip-off, his last line was a pun. It was horrible. I can't blame just him because ever single other cast member did just as bad. There is not a single line in the film that didn't make me roll my eyes. This film has gone way beyond so bad it's good, It is now at the stage of 'so bad we should burn every copy'. The screenplay is largely responsible for that. 0/10 Likableness: all I can really say at this point is 0/10. Final Score: 0/40 0% (S) TRIVIA TIME: 1. Cameos a.Johnny Depp-Guy in TV commercial b. Robert Shaye-selling bus tickets in a booth. (you know, I've noticed something, he's had a cameo in the last few movies. I bet that's why he keeps producing them) c. Roseanne and Tom Arnold-the childless couple. d. Alice Cooper-Freddy's abusive pimp father. 2. On 12 September 1991 a day before the U.S. release of the movie, Los Angeles declared it Freddy Krueger Day. 3. Peter Jackson was originally hired to write the screenplay for this film. He wrote a draft, but it wasn't used. 4. A 16-year-old Jacob Johnson, the son that was born to Alice Johnson in the previous installment, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child, was a major character in the original script written for the movie by Michael Almereyda. In this first draft of the film, Alice, now in her thirties, was killed by Freddy. Taryn, Joey, and Kincaid from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors also returned as the "Dream Police." In the script, Taryn was the "Blade Cop," Joey was the "Sound Cop," and Kincaid was the "Power Cop." Director Rachel Talalay has stated that she greatly disliked original script and that the replacement script by Michael De Luca "saved the day." De Luca also said that he was surprised he wasn't asked to write the screenplay in the first place, since he had done a similar last-minute rewrite on 'A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Dream Child'. 6. Peter Jackson's original screenplay for Freddy's Dead saw Freddy aging and growing weak within the dream world. The teens of Springwood would have drug-fuelled slumber parties for kicks, and enter the dream world to beat him up. 7. Said to take place "10 years from now". The official NOES website's timeline opted for 1999 in place of 2001, despite the release date of the film in 1991, taking ten years from now to refer to the conclusion of A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child. This actually impacts the placement of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, since Freddy Krueger's claw emerged from the portal to Hell at the end of that film to seize Jason's hockey mask. This indicates that the defeat of Freddy in his film preceded the events of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. 8. You didn't notice that there was no #5 9. You went back to look and now you noticed that there was no #5 and you are laughing. at least that's the hope.

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