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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.

• Dann M

  
  The Nightmare on Elm Street Series concludes with one last curtain call from Freddy Krueger in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. After having killed all the children in Springwood, Ohio, Krueger attempts to branch out by connecting with his long-lost daughter. This… More
  The Nightmare on Elm Street Series concludes with one last curtain call from Freddy Krueger in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. After having killed all the children in Springwood, Ohio, Krueger attempts to branch out by connecting with his long-lost daughter. This installment makes all of the same mistakes as the last one; retconning Krueger's mythology and making up new rules without regard for what's already been established in the series. Additionally, the special effects are weak and dated; especially in the 3D scenes, which comes off as cheap and gimmicky. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare is an unambitious and poorly made film that's only mildly entertaining.

• Cameron J

  
  "The Final Nightmare" my foot, these sequels are just too successful, albeit as campy disasters, but successful ones nonetheless. What further backs up the idea that this is not the end is the fact that these films are clearly just too easy to make. No, this film isn't… More
  "The Final Nightmare" my foot, these sequels are just too successful, albeit as campy disasters, but successful ones nonetheless. What further backs up the idea that this is not the end is the fact that these films are clearly just too easy to make. No, this film isn't quite that slam-banged, yet not even the title is quite as creative as it probably should be. It sounds like a tack-on, as in, "Oh yeah, and Freddy's dead." Well, no duh, he's the ghost of a burn victim, so he's been dead this whole series, but hey, this series isn't particularly notorious for creative sequel subtitles, what with all of its going on with "Freddy's Revenge", the video game title "Dream Warriors" and the video game console title "Dream Master". Okay, I actually like this film's title just fine, partially because I love the irony behind it, as they have finally gained the guts to just go ahead a cut out of the title "Elm Street", - which has had really nothing to do with anything the past couple of films - of all times, with the film in which Elm Street finally comes back into play. So yeah, "Elm Street" is nowhere in the title, but quite a few of the flaws that have haunted this saga since film, on the other hand, aren't simply back, but back and more intense than ever, and not alone, going accompanied by more flaws than ever, and just enough for the final product to nearly fall as mediocre, for although the film manages to survive as decent in the long run, there's still oh so much holding it back. Each one of these films, or at least ones up until this point, have had some degree of intrigue, or even tension, yet with this film, there's not bite to the nerves, and partially by design, because with this film, they just throw everything out of the window and admit to making this an all-out horror comedy, which is reasonably noble and all, were it not for the filmmakers' counteracting this film's new-found toungue-in-cheek with more cheesiness than ever. The kill set pieces are surprisingly limited, yet each one, as well as certain other set pieces, run much too long, which slows down the comic effectiveness of the intentional cheesiness, whose effectiveness is already made lacking to begin with by the set pieces being a bit too cheesy for their own good. Of course, where the comic set pieces have the upperhand over the dialogue is in their being effective at times, whereas the dialogue consistently falls flat as lame and corny, as well as made all the worst by quite a few performances behind the dialogue delivery, some of which are weak, with a few of which being nearly hard to watch. The film doesn't hit as many marks as it probably should as a comedy, yet it has its moments, and that would have distanced the final product even further from mediocrity, yet the film ends up making the near-grave mistake of making its share of attempts at relative seriousness, which not only creates jarring tonal unevenness that further cuts at momentum, but all but destroys intrigue and tension effectiveness, and it doesn't help that, serious or not serious, the film is made further disengaging by too much cheesiness' and tonal uneveness' not being the only flaws within Michael De Luca's screenplay, which is messily plotted. One of the biggest blows to, not just the script, but the overall film in general is slam-bang hurrying, in that the plot dashes along its points with limited exposition and a rather awkwardly speedy pacing, with little in the feel of organic rising and falling action, thus creating repetition and quite a bit of filler blandness that plagues this film from beginning to glaringly cop-out, holes-riddled end. The flaws mentioned aren't quite as glaring as I'm making them sound, yet they are glaring nevertheless, and relentless for that matter, plowing into this film time and again until the final product nearly collapses into mediocrity, and certainly collapses beneath the quality of any of its also thoroughly flawed predecessors. However, in the end, the film ultimately manages to escape that mediocrity, albeit by barely a little more than a hair, yet enough to stand as decent, partially because it has its occasions in which it manages to back up its more tongue-in-cheek attitude. Much too much in the comedy department falls flat, and that nearly leaves the film to fall flat, yet among the things that saves this film are moments in which the comedy doesn't necessarily hits, yet charms enough with its fluffy color to hold your attention, and maybe tickle the funny bone on a few occasions. What aids in the relative effectiveness of the film's reasonably enjoyable fluffiness are production designs and special effects that are faithfully colorful, having a kind of elaborate presentation and dynamicity that may have dated a fair bit over the years, yet still goes strong enough to supplement the fluff with adequate lively dazzle. It stands as worth mentioning that this film is directed by Rachel Talalay, producer of 1988's "Hairspray" and 1990's "Cry-Baby", and while that stands alongside the fact that she is, with this film, an improvable first-time director as quite the reason why she has little, if any business taking on a "Nightmare on Elm Str-oh, I mean, "Nightmare" film (No more "Elm Street" in the title apparently), it shows that she has taste in fluffy humor and tongue-in-cheek attitudes, and while she stands to do a better job actually directing the fluffiness, and while the fluffiness itself stands to be much more well-handled, Talalay graces this film with a certain charm that keeps things going. If nothing else, Talay graces this film with ceaseless entertainment value, for although the film stands to have more bite to it, it would have made that collapse into mediocrity, if not further, were it not for its being rather charmingly entertaining. What further pries this film from disaster and into moderate decency is, of course, the man who has made this series what it is, because with this film, they finally go for it and make Robert Englund no secondary character or "simply there for conflict" antagonist, but an occupant of most of the film, and boy, does he make sure that such a jump in prominence doesn't go to waste. The film holds a certain decency right away, and such decency loses steam as the film progresses, yet just before the film makes that plunge into general extreme mediocrity, Robert Englund arrives after the development segment to stay and carry this film with his usual firecreacker charisma, at its most sparkling, and an antagonistic presence that may be more effective as an intrigue-supplement than the atmosphere, yet gives you a sense of conflict, while incorporating something truly unexpected: a degree of humanity that further exposes the dark depths of and defines the iconically evil Freddy Krueger character as we plunge more into his tainted humanity with this installment. With all of my going on and on with the strengths of the film, they're still not strong enough to fully battle back the flaws that nearly destroy this film, yet the fact of the matter is that there are strengths, and ones that stand consistent enough to keep this film alive with a degree of charm that doesn't get it too far, yet far enough for the film to go kept alive, even if things do stand to be handled much more competently. To end this nightmare, or at least until Wes Craven comes along with, "I have an idea for a [u]new 'Nightmare'[/u] film", the film counteracts its more tongue-in-cheek atmosphere with even more cheesiness, made all the more disconcerting by the quite a few fall-flat points and poor performances, as well as faulty, conventional and repetitiously and blandly slam-banged story structure, thus making for a relentlessly flawed film that nearly collapses as mediocre, yet just barely goes saved as decent by a certain charm and a couple of relatively effective moments, brought to life by the colorful production designs, reasonably chrming direction by Rachel Talalay and, of coruse, immensely charismatic Robert Englund, who adds to the undeniably consistent entertainment value that manages to make "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" a decent fluff piece, even if it could have and should have been much more. 2.5/5 - Fair

• 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.

• Nick C

  
  Ok when I say this is the worst of the series, I mean it is most asurely THE WORST, I mean come on, "The Final Nightmare"!? I already know that this was not the last time I will see this guy in a new entry, plus this "Freddy death" is so cheap and typical, that I… More
  Ok when I say this is the worst of the series, I mean it is most asurely THE WORST, I mean come on, "The Final Nightmare"!? I already know that this was not the last time I will see this guy in a new entry, plus this "Freddy death" is so cheap and typical, that I can't think which was worse, the plot or the effects.

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