CheerupSilver
Very Cool!!!
WasAnnon
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
slightlymad22
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)Plot In A Paragraph: Dream-haunting Freddy Krueger returns once again to prowl the nightmares of Springwood's last surviving teenager.WOW this was awful. I turned it off once I seen Depps blink and you'll miss it clip!!If you want to see the once terrifying Freddy Kruger impersonating The Wicked Witch Of The West from Wizard Of Oz, this may be for you!! As it was I hated it. Depp appears for about 20 seconds during an advert on tv, in which Kruger hits him in the face with a frying pan.Freddy's Dead was the 37th highest grossing movie of the year, with a domestic haul of $34 million dollars.
NateWatchesCoolMovies
I'm not sure what they were going for with Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, but the summation of what they produced is simply... bizarre. Of course it's not the final round, they never can resist churning out meta reworking, crossovers and remakes, rendering the 'final' titles hilariously redundant (the 'final' Friday The 13th chapter is only the fourth entry in a franchise that soared into double digits). It's silly more than anything else, like the New Line Cinema boardroom passed around the laughing gas and spit-balled out this cartoonish, random, cameo stuffed looney bin of a flick. Actually, writing credit goes to director Rachel Talalay, who also helped the equally silly rumpus cult classic Tank Girl, which is lovable in it's own right. Speaking of silly, Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger has never been more buffoonish than here, the culmination of every one line and quip throughout the franchise. He's back, hunting down the last remaining Springwood teenager, as well as a woman (Lisa Zane) whose connection to his past could be dicy for him. There's also a weird backstory angle involving dream demons that look like sentient tadpoles who apparently are responsible for Freddy's initial resurrection and powers. Hmm. The cameos seem like they just made a celebrity collage on a dartboard, blindfolded each other and flung them all over. Alice Cooper shows up in flashbacks as Freddy's sadistic stepfather, Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold are around, plus Breckin Meyer and Yaphet Kotto. The rule of randoms is excepting Johnny Depp of course, an Elm Street veteran who has a quick bit as a TV advertisement dude. The dream sequences are wild and wacky, but never really frightening or as atmospheric as they used to be, the one springing to mind being a video game themed thing where pixelated Freddy chases a victim Super Mario style, not exactly the most bone chilling setting, but oh well. This does mark the last of the initial franchise before they moved on to deluxe entries like the super meta New Nightmare and the gong show that was Freddy Vs. Jason. If you're looking for the weirdest Elm Street flick, you've found it, and if you're looking for a scary, coherent one then you'll have to backtrack earlier in the franchise, or skip ahead to Wes Craven's excellent next one.
Matt Greene
Speaking of which, you know how people often say the even numbered Star Trek films are the best? I think this franchise might be the opposite, and this 6th entry is, fittingly, real bad. The acting is atrocious, Freddy spends too much time just fighting like a normal person, and all the terror has essentially given way to offensively lame comedy. Even some of the cool visuals (inside Freddy's brain, flashbacks) are ruined by the cynical employment of 3D.
Eric Stevenson
Freddy is back again in his worst movie from the original series. They waited six movies until finally telling Freddy's full backstory. At his death, he was approached by three dream demons who gave him his powers. The CGI on these things is so ugly looking. This film was 3-D and it's easy to tell how these ugly things stand out so well. They were trying to cram way too much backstory in the film and it truly makes you wonder why this wasn't spread out. Freddy's kills are the goofiest in the entire series. It's hard to say he's really weakened because he still gets rid of his victims well.I have no idea why this movie would depower Freddy. The characters do absolutely nothing out of the ordinary to beat him. The film is needlessly rushed and there's so much going on at the end that a lot of the movie just seems like filler. He does come back in "Freddy Vs. Jason" so this is once again a misleading title. It's just a dumb pointless movie and even more so than most slasher films. It shouldn't please any fan but at least it's not as bad as the remake. It's a stupid poorly paced film and it makes you realize why most people don't like slasher films. *1/2
