Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Plot synopsis:
In 1999, Freddy Krueger has returned and killed nearly every child and teenager in the town of Springwood, Ohio, excluding Alice Johnson and her son Jacob, who are revealed to have moved away. The only surviving teenager, known only as "John Doe", finds himself confronted by Freddy in a dream and wakes up just outside the Springwood City limits and does not remember who he is or why he is outside of Springwood.
At a shelter for troubled youth, Spencer, Carlos, and Tracy plot to run away from the shelter. Carlos was physically abused by his parents, resulting in a hearing disability; Tracy was raped by her father; and Spencer was a stoner. John, after being picked up by the police, becomes a resident of the shelter and a patient of Dr. Maggie Burroughs. Maggie notices a newspaper clipping in John's pocket from Springwood. To cure John's amnesia, she plans a road trip to Springwood. Tracy, Carlos, and Spencer stow away in the van to escape the shelter, but they are discovered when John has a hallucination and almost wrecks the van just outside Springwood.
Tracy, Spencer, and Carlos, after trying to leave Springwood, rest at a nearby abandoned house, which transforms into 1428 Elm Street, Freddy Krueger's former home. John and Maggie visit Springwood Orphanage and discover that Freddy had a child. John believes he is the child because Freddy allowed him to live. Back on Elm Street, Carlos and Spencer fall asleep and are killed by Freddy. Tracy is awakened by Maggie, but John, who went into the dream world with Tracy to try to help Spencer, is still asleep. Maggie and Tracy take him back to the shelter. On their way back, Krueger kills John in his dream, but not before revealing that Krueger's kid is a girl. As John dies, he reveals this information to Maggie. Tracy and Maggie return to the shelter, but they discover that no one remembers John, Spencer, or Carlos except for Doc, who has learned to control his dreams. Maggie remembers what John told her and discovers her own adoption papers, learning that she is Freddy's daughter. Her birth name was Katherine Krueger. Her name was legally changed to Maggie Burroughs
Doc discovers Freddy's power comes from the "dream demons" who continually revive him, and that Freddy can be killed if he is pulled into the real world. Maggie decides that she will be the one to enter Freddy's mind and pull him into the real world. Once in the dream world, she puts on a pair of 3-D glasses and enters Freddy's mind. There, she discovers that Freddy was teased as a child, abused by his foster father, inflicted self-abuse as a teenager, and murdered his wife. Freddy was given the power to become immortal from fiery demons. After some struggling, Maggie pulls Freddy into the real world.
Maggie and Freddy end up in hand-to-hand combat against one another. While Maggie continues to battle Freddy, she uses several weapons confiscated from patients at the shelter. Enraged by the knowledge of what he has done, she disarms him of his clawed glove. Eventually, Maggie stabs Freddy in the stomach with his own glove while she is close to him. Tracy throws Maggie a pipe bomb. After she impales Freddy to a steel support beam she throws the bomb in his chest. She says "Happy Fathers Day", kisses him, and runs. The three dream demons fly out of Freddy after the pipe bomb kills him, unable to revive him in the real world. Maggie smiles at Tracy and Maggie says, "Freddy's dead."

Tags: comedy, gothic, murder, cult, horror, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, sadist

Review:
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street series and once again another bad sequel.
This is the last of the "Elm Street" films until Wes Craven resurrected Freddy into a different, darker style in "New Nightmare" and the silly but surprisingly enjoyable spin-off horror film "Freddy Vs Jason".
When they reach Springwood, Maggie discovers that she was adopted by her mother and her father is Freddy Krueger."Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" is the sixth part of this classic movie and is a very weak and disappointing sequel.
Often people will have low expectations going into a film like FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE.
But although I had an open mind while watching what was supposedly the last NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET film, I found it a bitter disappointment in every way.Once again, our favorite grotesquely-disfigured dream stalker is after a group of teens, dispatching them one by one as they sleep.
The only reason it holds it self up is the back story on Freddy.The one thing that is always great in Nightmare movies are the death scenes.
I think I still have those glasses somewheres.All of the Nightmare films are good,but I guess the best one would be the first.I think I was about 14 when I first saw it and it almost scared the pee out of me,heehee,but of course they don't spook me now.One of my favourite parts in Freddy's Dead is when Spencer is on the couch stoned and Freddy comes on the TV and goes "Hey Spence,let's trip out" and the funky music (which is the begining of Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)comes on with the groovy swirls and colors and he pulls Spencer into the TV.I own the whole Nightmare series on video,and looking forward for their release on DVD!
Rachel Talalay,who has been contected to the nightmare series for a long time by now.Many people hate this film,but I liked it.It tried to bring out what FREDDY was doing with his wisecrackes...COMDEY and makes the series more funny than scary.So this film is really a comdey sore to speak.It is not the wrost in the series,part 2 still holds it..
Before long the truth about Freddy's origins as a dream demon are finally revealed.Okay, so the inclusion of 3-D is just a gimmick, but ignore that and this film comes across as one of the most well-made and entertaining of the Nightmare series..
It adds a twist to the other movies and helps in a positive way for the surreal dream sequences.I give it an 8/10 for the horror that is Nightmare on Elm Street series (NOES series)..
Quebec Rating:13+ Canadian Home Video Rating:18AFreddy's Dead The Final Nightmare was supposed to be the final NIghtmare On Elm Street film.There were 2 more films(New Nightmare and Freddy vs Jason if you want to count it).I have seen all six Elm Street films now and I am going to see New Nightmare fairly soon.Im surprised at the low rating of this film.I find it to be one of the better films in the series.Definitely better than 2,4 and 5.These movies are not about plot and acting, they are about entertainment.I give the first film a 10/10 because it was both very entertaining and it had a good and original storyline.The third film was the second best because it had a fairly good storyline as well and was entertaining.This one did not have much of a storyline but it is one of the most entertaining films in the series.This is the funniest film in the series by far.There are plenty of hilarious scenes in this film.Also the flashback's were interesting.In this one we see a guidance counselor who is Freddy's daughter.She works with a kid who has amnesia because of something Freddy did to him.The two find that they have similar dreams so they decide to visit Springwood and they end up in a town fair with some strange people.Three other kids sneak on with them.They spend a night in a house where two of them get killed.So now they all join forces to try to stop Freddy.Freddy's dead The Final Nightmare is one of the better films in the series..
Freddy Krueger the dream stalker from elm street returns,the great character actor Robert englund is back in this sequel of nightmare 5, dream child.i hope i got the number correctly.there's been so many,and this one is one of the best,especially for the cameos by;Rosanne Barr (then Arnold)tom Arnold,johnny depp,(who did the very first nightmare in 84)alice cooper(singer)you will see Freddy as a tormented child,a teenager who loves pain,and as a family guy(creepy)the effects are very funny and creative,the cast also includes Lisa Zane(Billy's sister) breckin Meyer(road trip)yaphet kotto(alien,live and let die)and Amanda Donahue(father knows best)i was one of the people 3who saw this in 3d,well the ending.i love 3d movies.i missed the first 3d wave in 1953(i wasn't even born yet)the second wave was in 1983.i like all the Freddy movies.this one stands out as one of the better ones not counting the first which was absolutely brilliant,Freddy became the new monster of the 80s and 90s,along with Jason voorhees,chucky,Micheal myers,and leather face.can you imagine a film with all of them?i recommend this to all Freddy fans and horror fans alike.that Freddy is such a cut up.8 out of 10..
'Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare' is easily the best of the sequels and is also the funniest.**SPOILERS**Freddy (Robert Englund) forces one of the last surviving Elm Street, John (Shon Goldblatt) children to do his bidding in the other world while he gains strength in the dream world.
Possessed by Freddy, Maggie unknowingly brings him back to the shelter where he begins a giant wave of horror on the unsuspecting staff and patients.The Good News: I really want to applaud the film-makers for making this movie so enjoyable.
This is my favorite of the sequels, right before 'New Nightmare.' The reason why this one is so good is that Freddy has some of his funniest lines ever in this film.
They're not really scary, just enjoyable, and the film makes them work quite easily.The Bad News: The only bad thing about this movie was how totally non-threatening Freddy was.
Freddy (Robert Englund) has killed off all the kids on Elm Street, so he decides to try and move to another town, but finds opposition from his until-now unmentioned therapist daughter (Lisa Zane), a dream specialist (Yaphet Kotto) and some troubled teens.
Cameos from Alice Cooper, Roseanne and Tom Arnold, New Line CEO Robert Shaye (who produced the entire series) and Johnny Depp (who got his start in the first ELM STREET movie) aren't funny at all.
At this point in the series it seems clear that the movies realize that they are no longer horror films but gory comedies, since they have long since lost what little power they ever might have had to be scary.
The kids in the movie come up with a pretty clever (and long overdue) plot to kill Freddy once and for all, but it's good that this was not the final installment in the series, if only because it would have been such an anticlimactic close to a series that had thus far spawned five sequels and fans around the world.The film originally featured a thrilling 3-D conclusion which, to the best of my knowledge, has been scrapped by the DVD production, I imagine because of the necessity for 3-D glasses.
It is not the most original but it is the most funny.Freddy's Death is a very good directed film in the series,which 3-D scenes are cool when it came out (1991).This film,with a independent story (it is not into the Nancy's series and Alice Johnson's one)has a correct plot and correct actors in perhaps the second best movie in the series.It is very funny at the beginning when it appears a sentence by Nietzsche and then a Freddy's sentence.
The best thing about this version of the "nightmare" series was the sound, which was the best of the six regular "Freddy movies." (That's not counting the subsequent "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" which had outstanding sound and visuals.)The sound might have been better on this latter-day Freddy film but the fun scenes where wild and memorable things happened were fewer.
Well, my favorite nightmare on elm street is the first one, and the seventh one, but the very first one I saw was part 6 when I was about 7 and i thought it was awesome but then when I saw them all it is one of the worst like dream child and Freddy's revenge, because the actors are so bad, except Johnny Depp the rest suck and the script sucks so much, the story is o.k. and the effects are pretty good too, for it's time.
But When Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead shows everyone who thought the series got old, and wanted to stop seeing him, or people who wanted their hero (or Villian) just stops for his final breath, This film was it.This film starts with a parody of Wizard of Oz, Then you see a kid who is named only as John Doe, Who is the last child in Springwood, Ohio, leaves and gets out of Freddy territory.
Robert Englund will always be Freddy Krueger to us horror fans.This movie isn't bad at all, watched it more than God only knows how many times.
You've got two gorgeous ladies, Lisa Zane and Lezlie Deane, laying and kicking some chopsuey action with Shon Greenblatt, Breckin Meyer, Ricky Dean Logan and Yaphet Kotto against the Springwood Slasher himself - plus a cameo appearance by major stars.Every Elm Street film has its own creativity with its nightmares.
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare does little else but signify that this was the appropriate time to conclude the long-running franchise, which, at this point, had spanned a good seven years.
In efforts to try and stop Freddy once and for all, an older psychologist named Maggie (Lisa Zane), who is looking to treat John for amnesia and mental illness, as well as his prolific and lucid nightmares about Freddy Krueger, and her friend Tracy (Lezlie Deane) work to try and enter the realm of Freddy's dreams in order to stop him from the source of his madness - his mind.The concept of Freddy's Dead loans itself to a lot of introspection for one of the most recognized killers in mainstream horror.
Without Wes Craven's New Nightmare, a seriously underrated and commendable attempt at meta and psychological horror with Craven using his trademark Freddy character to bend reality and fiction in a far more believable and organized way, we could've ended this franchise on a film that is little more than a curious, early-nineties oddity that should be delegated to the back pages of a cult/forgotten cinema catalog.Starring: Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Robert Englund, Lezlie Deane, and Breckin Meyer.
Still wasn't close to the original, but my favorite sequel...I don't get why they said this was the final nightmare when there was the "New Nightmare" 3 years later..and I heard there's a prequel coming out!I like that this told more about Freddy's "Real life" and showed why he is who he is.
Look for Johnny Depp in a cameo as a TV commercial that gets silenced by Freddy.Overall, this movie is better than the last couple were, and it has a good ending that ties the series up.6/10.
The film appears to take place 10 years "from now", but that doesn't seem to matter, as the basis of the film revolves around one surviving teen from Elm Street, a "John Doe" (Shon Greenblatt) who manages to escape - but that's what Freddy Krueger (once more thank you Robert Englund) wanted, as Freddy is seeking out his daughter.Like part 5, "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" delves heavily into Freddy's past, and does so in a way that is not complicated nor condescending to the viewer and doesn't mess with pre-established continuity either, but very informative.
The DVD has the option of watching it in 2-D or 3-D, and special features indicate that Talalay herself was not completely happy with having her ending in 3-D.So while Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare is no master piece like the first or 7th films, it is not without its redeeming features, and is really a good film when it comes down to it..
Director Rachel Talalay, who's been with the series for quite some time now, and writer Micheal De Luca has made a drop dead funny comedy to the brilliant horror film, A Nightmare On Elm Street.Ten years after PART 5:THE DREAM CHILD, and three after the battle in FREDDY V.S. JASON.
Director Rachel Talalay, who worked as a producer on the previous installments of the series, takes the lead here and steers the train head-first into a brick wall: Combining the what-is-real atmosphere of "Twin Peaks" along with the zaniness of an episode of "Pee-wee's Playhouse," the movie has little to offer longtime Krueger fans, and plays out instead like a live-action episode of "Tom and Jerry" to the enjoyment of no one.
Before I start this review,I'd like to say that I'm sorry that I'm reviewing this franchise out of order,but whatever.First,the good,Robert Englund,he's still great as Freddy Krueger and is able to pull off all the stupid jokes.Speaking of Freddy,I thought that his backstory was decent,and not as terrible as others would say.The death scenes were decent,definitely creative.Some of the concepts for the dream world were decent,just badly executed.I liked the fast pacing,and that it focused a bit more on story than death scenes.The end credit montage was great to see(though it's basically just a reminder of the movies in the franchise that were better than this one.)and some characters were entertaining.Now,the cons,the other characters,they were badly written and badly acted,the main character had basically no emotions.The references,they make the movie feel outdated and not fun.The overall feel of the movie is lazy and tired,the ending is pretty anticlimactic,and not as epic as it should have been.But the biggest flaw of the movie,it's "humourous" tone,it feels like Looney Tunes,and it is not funny at all,just stupid,the terrible outdated effects don't help either.All in all,Freddy's Dead:The Final Nightmare is a movie with forced humor,bad characters,and great death scenes..
It is the sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child and is followed by Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which takes place outside the series' canon.Lezlie Deane as Tracy was tough and sexy as Tracy and her martial arts kicking Freddy was great watching her on screen.
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.
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 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.Overall, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare is not a horror movie, it's like a horror / comedy movie and is not the best film in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse.5 out of 10 stars..
From the title of this film, it appeared that this was finally the final Nightmare movie, where Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) would meet his end.
Nine, Ten The Franchise Reaches Its End. It's blatantly obvious within the first five minutes that "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" is a different kind of "Elm Street" flick.
Freddy's Dead-The Final Nightmare would have been a good film IF it wasn't part of a horror series and IF it was intended to be funny - but unfortunately it DOES belong to a horror series and it WASN'T intended to be one big joke.
I'm glad Wes Craven decided to shoot a 7th Nightmare-film to fill the hole this movie has left.Maybe if I wasn't expecting a horror film I would have liked Freddy's Dead.
Rachel Talalay, producer of parts 3 and 4 of the Nightmare films, proves that it is possible to make a worse Elm Street movie than The Dream Child by directing Freddy's Dead, the poorest entry in the whole series.In this chapter, we discover that Freddy has a daughter, Maggie (Lisa Zane, who looks like a sexy cross between a young Madonna and Rachel Weisz), who is all grown up and working at a shelter for delinquent children.
It has as a result that "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" is often a silly movie to watch but at the same time that's what making this movie so fun and watchable.This change is definitely a step up for the series.
The original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is still to me one of the scariest and best horror films there is, as well as a truly great film in its own right and introduced us to one of the genre's most iconic villains in Freddy Krueger.
Sixth installment in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series has Freddy (Robert Englund) searching for his long-lost daughter (Lisa Zane) for a final showdown.