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Freddy\u2019s Dead: The Final Nightmare<\/strong>\u00a0 (1991)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 89 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence, frightening images, sexual innuendo, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Rachel Talalay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Michael DeLuca\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Brian May\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Declan Quinn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: September 13, 1991 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Breckin Meyer, Ricky Dean Logan, Yaphet Kotto, Tobe Sexton, Johnny Depp, Tom Arnold, Roseanne Barr, Alice Cooper, Elinor Donahue.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $34.8 million (US)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: **<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0There\u2019s that word again in the title Freddy\u2019s Dead: The Final Nightmare<\/strong>. You know which one, it begins with f and rhymes with spinal. Yep, that\u2019s the one! DON\u2019T YOU BELIEVE IT!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0That being said, it\u2019s a shame that Freddy Krueger has to go out on such a weak note. Freddy\u2019s Dead<\/strong> is the sixth and supposedly final chapter of the series that got off to a great start with Wes Craven\u2019s now-classic 1984 fright flick. Seven years later, Freddy has gone from evil child killer to boogeyman beloved by children everywhere. A guy I once spoke to in passing told me his 3YO daughter loved Freddy and giggled every time she saw him. I doubt that was Craven\u2019s intention when he created the character, but he might have had it in the back of his mind that there are some weird little kids out there.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0While I don\u2019t exactly hate Freddy\u2019s Dead<\/strong>, it\u2019s a big step down from the original terrifying movie. Its main problem is that it isn\u2019t scary. It\u2019s bizarre and weird, but never scary. For this last outing, the producers wanted the Gloved One to go out in a memorable fashion, so they released it in 3D. It wasn\u2019t until I got to the theater that I learned that the 3D didn\u2019t kick in until the last 13 minutes. In addition, it was the cheap kind of 3D (one red lens, one blue). The term \u201crip-off\u201d definitely applies to this situation. I guess I shouldn\u2019t complain too much seeing that the manager let me and my friend in for free that Friday night. In fact, I ended up seeing it again the next day at the behest of another friend. My eyes weren\u2019t too happy about it, that\u2019s for sure. Setting aside its technical shortcomings for a moment, Freddy\u2019s Dead<\/strong> is just lame. It\u2019s like a watered-down drink at a bar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Like I said, this one gets really weird starting with the fact that it\u2019s set ten years in the future. Freddy has killed all but one of the children in Springwood. The surviving teen (Greenblatt) awakens from a nightmare and tries to escape the town, but Freddy catches up with him and sends him through a hidden border to bring him something. The kid, known as \u201cJohn Doe\u201d, wakes up on the road with total amnesia. The cops find him wandering around an unnamed city and take him to a youth shelter for troubled teens.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0He\u2019s placed under the care of Maggie (Zane, Bad Influence), a case worker plagued by terrifying nightmares. She finds on his person a newspaper clipping of a missing woman named Loretta Krueger. When she sees Springwood listed as the byline, she suggests they take a trip there to jog his memory. Three teens- rich, rebellious stoner Spencer (Meyer, 54), sexual abuse victim Tracy (Deane, 976-EVIL) and Carlos (Logan), hearing-impaired due to abuse by his mother- looking to escape the shelter stow away on the van.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Upon arriving in Springwood, they learn that all of the adults suffer from a mass psychosis because their children were murdered. Furthermore, Maggie and John find out that Freddy had a child that was taken away from him after the disappearance of his wife. John believes that he is that child. Meanwhile, the other three teens try to leave town only to find they cannot because some unseen force is sending them in circles. They give up and decide to stay in an abandoned house for the night. Guess which house? It doesn\u2019t end well for two of them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0In the end, it\u2019s Maggie that goes up against Freddy. Doc (Kotto, Alien), the resident dream specialist, helps Maggie by giving her a pair of special glasses to see her way around the dream world inhabited by Freddy. Her putting on the glasses signals the audience to do the same with their 3D glasses. It\u2019s an interesting sequence in that it gives viewers some insight about Freddy\u2019s past and how he became the monster that he is. In it, we also learn how he gained his supernatural powers. It seems like a reasonable explanation, but the question remains as to whether we really wanted to know. Some things are better left a mystery such as the secret to Jason Voorhees\u2019 immortality (Jason Goes to Hell, remember?).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0One of my biggest problems with Freddy\u2019s Dead<\/strong> is that it changes something pretty major. Originally, Freddy murdering the teens of Elm Street was out of revenge for what their parents did to him. In this movie, it\u2019s explained that the reason for Freddy\u2019s revenge is his child being taken from him. Why change things this late in the game? It\u2019s a mistake that almost proves fatal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The visuals in Freddy\u2019s Dead<\/strong> are decent but not outstanding. There isn\u2019t anything all that memorable. Director Rachel Talalay fails to bring the visual flair she would later bring to Tank Girl. She has a pretty good handle on narrative in that she never lets it become convoluted even at its most bizarre. The characters aren\u2019t all that memorable either. Kotto and Zane turn in good performances, but the teens (except for Deane) are forgettable.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Johnny Depp, one of the stars of the first movie, contributes an amusing cameo as do Mr. & Mrs. Roseanne Barr (as they\u2019re listed in the closing credits). Rocker Alice Cooper appears briefly as Freddy\u2019s abusive foster dad. Elinor Donahue (Princess from Father Knows Best) shows up as a delusional orphanage house mother.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0What makes Freddy\u2019s Dead<\/strong> truly disappointing is that it doesn\u2019t make the most of its premise. His demise should have been something to remember, something awesome. It\u2019s really not. It\u2019s okay, but doesn\u2019t quite make the grade. It leaves a great deal to be desired. That\u2019s not the reaction the makers hoped for, you can bet on it.<\/p>\r\n Freddy\u2019s Dead: The Final Nightmare\u00a0 (1991)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 89 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence, frightening images, sexual innuendo, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Rachel Talalay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Michael DeLuca\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Brian May\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Declan Quinn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: September 13, 1991 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Breckin Meyer, Ricky Dean Logan, Yaphet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Freddys-Dead-The-Final-Nigh.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Freddys-Dead-The-Final-Nightmare-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C924&ssl=1\")
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