Wow, I never realized that Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare was so universally hated!! I think after The Dream Master and The Dream Child, I welcomed The Final Nightmare with open arms.

I don't know if you can say I'm biased but I do have a bit of a crush on, director, Rachel Talalay. I love that she worked her way up through the entire NOES series until she was finally in the director's chair, herself. Her love for the series shines in the final film all the way through to the end credits (which are accompanied with clips from all six films).

Taking inspiration from the work she did with John Waters on Cry Baby, the casting of a…

You can't scare me anymore.
-Tracy

The seeds of disaster first popped up in possibly the franchise's best sequel in Part 3: Dream Warriors. With each subsequent film the dream sequences became sillier while the one liners became lamer. As a fan you could see the derailment coming as each sequel seemed to speed even faster towards it. Freddy's Dead is the culmination of that as we finally get the complete train wreck that everyone could see coming, but no one seemed to be able to avoid.

Rachel Talalay makes her directorial debut here, and I almost feel bad saying anything bad about her as she's worked on every single Nightmare on Elm Street film since the 1984 original, but…

Rachel Talalay's "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" deserves points for attempting to shake up the formula of the multi-chaptered horror series. While it is not completely successful, this sixth entry in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series adds lore and grownups to the equation that typically finds teens stalked by the finger-knived killer with the knack for one-liners. It also expands the series' mythos; however, the film can not completely get away from what became stale two films ago. Still, it is a watchable and occasionally engrossing horror sequel.

Taking place in a future where Springwood, Ohio, the city where Elm Street claimed its first victim, is devoid of children, the film supplies the usual teen-stalkings and dream logic…

Nobody, include myself, seems to ever talk about Yaphet Kotto. I loved him in Alien. I loved him in The Running Man. I love him in this. Yaphet Kotto is awesome.

This movie is completely off the wall crazy. I’ve gone on quite a journey with it over the 26* years since it came out. If Letterboxd was around in 1991 I probably would have given this 5 stars. Everything I heard about it at the time was how awful it was. Everyone hated it. But this was the first in the series I had been able to see in the cinema. And there was no way I was able to admit to having the misfortune of finally seeing one…

So we reach the final installment of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
What a mind meltingly awful way to go out too!!

Now I remember back in the mists of time, my newly teenaged mind enjoyed this mostly because I was in love with Maggie and it was in 3D!! (or Freddy-Vision as they called it). By the time we rented the video it had only 1 pair of glasses still inside the case.
Obviously this meant my brother missed out and I wore them.
Then on the subsequent 3 rewatches before we returned it to the shop...he still missed out as I wore them again. Sucks to be the youngest!!

These days it is in 2D and you remember…

The sixth and final installment of the original Nightmare run is absolutely batshit crazy in the best way possible. The first fifteen or twenty minutes is incredibly painful to get through, in large part due to the abysmal choice of alt-rock songs aimlessly thrown in, but once Freddy comes out to play, this film hit every single one of my buttons. The tone director Rachel Talalay establishes between the characters mimics the over-the-top, self-aware campiness of Jason Lives (Friday the 13th VI, the best of the franchise by far) perfectly. Once you replace Jason with Freddy at the height of his insanity, The Final Nightmare goes for broke in the most ridiculous ways possible within the parody of what a…

Nobody, include myself, seems to ever talk about Yaphet Kotto. I loved him in Alien. I loved him in The Running Man. I love him in this. Yaphet Kotto is awesome.

This movie is completely off the wall crazy. I’ve gone on quite a journey with it over the 26* years since it came out. If Letterboxd was around in 1991 I probably would have given this 5 stars. Everything I heard about it at the time was how awful it was. Everyone hated it. But this was the first in the series I had been able to see in the cinema. And there was no way I was able to admit to having the misfortune of finally seeing one…