Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

After “A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child”, it was announced that another sequel was going to be made, but New Line Cinema wanted everyone to know that this would be the last film, so now, I continue my franchise review of A Nightmare on Elm Street, with “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare”. This film follows the exploits of “John Doe”, an amnesiac teenager from Springwood, who was sent out to find Freddy’s daughter, Maggie, whom he needs to leave the children in Springwood. Freddy’s goal is to create new “Elm Streets” and begin a new killing spree after having killed of all of the children in Springwood.

Maggie, utilizing new dreams techniques, uncovers Krueger’s past, which include being taunted by schoolmates for being the son of 100 maniacs, being cruel to animals, beaten by his stepfather, the murder of his own wife when she discovers he has been killing children and the moment when the Dream Demons arrive in his boiler room to make him the offer of eternal life. Eventually, Maggie pulls Freddy out of the dream world and uses a pipe bomb to blow him up.

The story is a little scary, but also funny as heck. It is considered the worst idea for the movie, but it works for me and to say the least, it is the best of A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, for me, along with the 1984 and 2010 versions of the original film, the 2003 crossover film with Jason Voorhees, the fourth film, the third and second film and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare. Like I said, the only Nightmare on Elm Street film I have mixed emotions over is “A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child”.

There’s not much to say about the visuals and design, but they are incredible as they were back in 1991, when this film came out. The way the comedy and horror works with Freddy is just as impressive and inspiring. The music is just cool as hell. Brian May is a great composer and he done a very great job with the music in the film and the famous original theme is in this film. The acting is a little confusing, but I will give credit to Lisa Zane as Maggie Burroughs / Katherine Krueger.

She does a great job and I don’t think she could have been worse in any of the scenes in this film. Robert Englund returns as Freddy Krueger and his performances is cool as hell. My favorite scenes are when Freddy tells Maggie, “Every town has an Elm Street” and the parody of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. My favorite nightmare is the video game nightmare and that was really funny, scary, but also really cool and amazing.

It was fantastic, man. The rest of the cast is just out there at times, but the really cool thing about it is Lezlie Deane, Yaphet Kotto, Breckin Meyer and Ricky Dean Logan is really amazing and so great in some of the scenes.