1991 Directed by Rachel Talalay
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.
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“Yeah, well, the map says we’re FUCKED!”
Ya know, I used to think The Final Nightmare was terrible... I was one of the many people that thought it was a garbage trash fire of a movie but I was so wrong. Now, though? I kinda love this bizarre, fresh take surreal John waters episode of Twin Peaks and all of its weirdo 90’s choices and oddities.
Lisa Zane, Lezlie Deane, and Yaphet Kotto are all super sold plus we get a little more mythos/Lore which I’m always a sucker for. I dig the empty elm street atmosfear, the addition of more adult characters, the amazing intro that I still think about at least once a week, and a supposed ending to…
Starting with a dream-within-a-dream that lasts for 8 minutes, already demonstrating the absurd humor and surrealism have increased to the extreme, with the dream sequence ending with a cartoonish cut-out, all after an opening title card explaining a town without children, this '90s acid trip with Freddy is wild. Only in the late-night MTV era could kills like the video game kill happen. I enjoy it for the time capsule it is; and, also, because I love surrealist humor and how dark the Kathryn Krueger arc can get.
I also just love off-the-rail sequels, in general, like: Friday the 13th part VII: The New Blood, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, Curse of Michael Myers, and Freddy's Dead. The A…
I’m not sure I would have given this quite as high a rating when it first came out, but damn if it isn’t a movie that somehow gets better with time even if it has a fair share of faults. The Freddy makeup in this one isn’t the best, but Robert Englund still owns the role with unabashed glory. I love Lisa Zane in a NOES moviemand I can’t even tell you why. I just know that it’s the right choice.
I never got a chance to see this in 3D but i guarantee this would have been just as popular with or without that trick. I guess the important thing is that this didn't actually end the franchise and hopefully we will continue to get more movies even if they are continuations of the remake. Studio execs these days just don’t seem to know how to handle iconic franchises and that’s a real shame.
not even sure what's left to say about these anymore. the dream concept means the imagery and production design of even the worst one of these is a bit less boring to watch than a bad slasher but there's very little even attempt at horror at this point (the only sequence that kinda worked for me was the flashback sequence) and is tonally closer to like an offbeat family comedy which might go over better if freddy worked a little harder on his tight five.
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…
"I'll get you my pretty, and your little soul too!" - Freddy,
"(SIGH)" - me,
- Freddy Ranked: boxd.it/1o5RM
Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold were like the Kardashians of my time.
I understand that this movie is making a comeback among the fans and my daughter ended up liking it. I'm still not fully on board. There are some really fun parts like the carnival without children but mostly there are just some memorable moments that aren't iconic. I don't hate this film I just don't think it's that good. It feels more fun to talk about than to actually watch. Still, I love all my children.
Nightmare on Elm Street oder wie ich lernte den Krueger zu lieben (?) (6)
Eins, zwei – …!
Drei, vier – …!
Fünf, sechs – …!
Sieben, acht – …!
Neun, zehn – …!
Ja, das war die vorabwinkende Bruchlandung.
Nebst schlechten Schauspielern und einer noch schlechteren Darbietung, haben wir Effekte aus den 90ern als ein Produkt der 90ern in Schlecht. Herrschte bei den vorherigen Werken der Charme aus den 80ern, dementsprechend sahen die Kulissen aus die genau das lieferten was gewünscht wurde, zeigten sich die Morde und der Weg dorthin als das ausleben der übersprudelnden eigenen Fantasie, wird sich hier im Greenscreen ausgetobt die wohl zu den schlechtesten Effekten gehören, die ich je zu Gesicht bekam.
Um diesem Werk meine gebührende Geringschätzung zu zeigen, beende ich sie wie ich die letzten Minuten beendet habe, in dem ich hier …
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Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
The Elm Street series comes to it's "final" conclusion, which contrary to it's tagline, also happens to be the absolute worst.
Oh dear though, I thought The Dream Child was pretty fucking weak, but I'd say Freddy's Dead easily takes the cake as the absolute nadir of the series. What could have been a return to the gritty terror of the original is an overly-humorous mess loaded with illogical writing decisions and a terribly-placed 3D gimmick. The most I can say about this one is that it paved the way for New Nightmare, but that's as much credit as I'll give it.
Many years after…
I’ve come around on this crazy John waters episode of twin peaks so much. I love this movie and all of its whack surreal oddities and creepy af lore.
Kill count taken from a fan site:
1. Carlos Rodriguez - Hearing magnified, head exploded by sound of bladed glove scratching chalkboard
2. Spencer Lewis - Knocked down stairs into bottomless pit
3. John Doe - Fell from sky, impaled on bed spikes
4. Freddy Krueger - Pinned to wall/crate with various weapons, bladed glove in stomach, blown up by pipe bomb
everybody knows rachel talalay produced john waters 80s movies (she was p.a. on POLYESTER!) and if F's-D was full-on screeching camp it'd be my fav elm st no lie. she wanted DIVINE to say "don't be a pussy" on the plane! all the best stuff in this is garish 1991 kitsch - roseanne/tom arnold cameo, rainbow day-glo videogame/roger rabbit goofs, johnny depp's "oprah noodlemantra" brain on drugs w/ iron butterfly, "kung fu this!", undershirted alice cooper swigging a whiskey bottle & threatening jake busey-lookalike teen freddy with his belt, jerky/smirky dream demon rod-puppets, characters showing the audience when to put on your 3-D glasses, etc etc etc.
but nooo there's a bunch of boring/depressing stuff that comes off lame & insincere. ugly…
"Every town has an Elm Street" -Freddy,
- A Nightmare on Elm Street Ranked: boxd.it/1o5RM
Yaphet Kotto!
So, I've always thought that this is the worst of the films but this time something about it worked for me in a way that it never had before. It's such a jarring change from the prior franchise installments that it is hard to adjust to but once you do it's a fun little film that screams early 90s. I like this because it is a silly and interesting tribute to one of the best horror franchises in history.
Where in the rules is it stated that Freddy can't be goofy? I like all the weird sight gags, attempts at humor, and silly…
