In 1991 the six Nightmare on Elm Street movie came out and it attempted to do the unthinkable to kill off Freddy once and for all and send him back to hell and Freddy’s Dead the Final Nightmare which is a bizarre entry which takes a more comical Oddball humor approach
Something that really itches the balls of many fans this time Freddy played once again with menacing Delight by Robert England is reunited with his long lost adult daughter but this family reunion is going to end in a showdown where Freddy will finally be put to an
End so the big question is is it a spectacular finale or a stale let down well that’s up to the individual viewer to decide I’m Freddy and I’ve come for your soul no just kidding look it’s actually minty or as I like to call this look minty Krueger but seriously though how
Cool is this mask look it goes right down to the chest and [ __ ] although it is a little hard to breathe but you know it still looks cool I actually got the idea of doing this cosplay from my friend cosplay Chris anyway time to stop the little chitchat that’s s check it out [ __ ] number 10 a time to focus on other movies the first The Nightmare on Elm Street movie was released in 1984 and was directed by Wes Craven and it was a massive success that put its distributor new line Cinema on the map earning at the nickname the house that Freddy built
Freddy would return for further sequels where throughout the 80s the popularity of the franchise would continue to grow and Freddy would become a staple of Pop Culture however by 1989 a nightmare Street 5 the dream child it was felt that maybe the franchise had run out of
Steam as it had a lower box office intake and wasn’t exactly embraced by fans and critics at that time leaving new line Cinema to believe that maybe this series had run its course so new line Cinema decided to do the unthinkable to finish Freddy off for
Good to make a big spectacle movie that was going to be solely dedicated to the dream Demon’s demise another leading factor in this decision is new line Cinema than themselves were evolving as a movie company at that time they were no longer just the company that made a
Nightmare on Elm Street movies at that time they were having successes with other movies like The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie and around about this time the studio was Distributing other ambitious movies like Drop Dead Fred and lawn mower man as the company’s founder Robert sheay puts it it was time to move
On and we had other projects to focus on no I get it little knew thine Cinema thought that it was all now grown up and didn’t need Freddy so tell me what were the box office returns for drop dead friend and Lord man again number nine the Freddy movie we nearly
Got so I guess the word was out on the Great Vine within the new line Cinema click that there was Now talks of making one last Freddy Krueger movie one that was going to kill him off and no doubt there was probably several aspiring filmmakers with their own ideas of how
To send Freddy to Hell permanently once and for all and one of those filmmakers was a young Peter Jackson who wrote his own A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 script the New Zealand director wrote a script about a group of teenagers who were fascinated with Freddy Krueger and no
Longer saw him as a frat on the account that over the years he had weakened where they took sleeping pills to enter Freddy’s domain and pretty much beat the crap out of him to get their kid where eventually I guess it doesn’t quite go to plan but however new line
Cinema didn’t go with this ambitious script but despite his Freddy’s script being rejected Jackson would still go on to make his Lord of the Rings trilogy with the company with Lord of the Rings The Return of the King becoming new line Cinema’s highest grossing movie number eight a change of Direction with the Title so it’s here we get to Freddy’s Dead’s director Rachel talii who in recent years was would go on to direct many episodes of Doctor Who anyway at that time she had already worked on the previous Nightmare on Elm Street movies where this time she was given an upgrade
Where she became the movie’s director as well as coming up with the movie story she wanted to inject new life and new ideas into what may have been seen as a tired franchise at that stage and one of these changes was to remove the title A Nightmare on Elm Street y she didn’t
Want to make a Nightmare on Elm Street 6 but wanted to Spruce things up with a different title one that hits home that this is Freddy’s Final Curtain Call I see the logic each and every other movie starts with A Nightmare on Elm Street followed by a number so this was
Different where this movie got the title Freddy’s Dead the Final Nightmare yep spoilers be damned this title lets you know right away what you’re in for Freddy’s going to die enjoy the movie however and yes I know how popular the word however is on YouTube when the
Movie got a DVD released here in Australia it was retitled to A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 Freddy’s Dead the Final Nightmare yeah look at that so why did they change the title well because Freddy did return making the previous title null and void number seven the cartoon Freddy
Movie okay something I saw a few times when doing research for Freddy’s Dead was it being referred to as the Looney Tunes Freddy movie The Freddy movie that didn’t so much feel like a violent horror movie anymore but more like a comical cartoon and I think that this is
Something that draws a lot of criticism with the movie adding more comedy which was also an idea of Rachel to l once again in an attempt to try something different but also to steer away from a Nightmare on Elm Street part five which was a darker entry in the franchise and
I think some people felt it did go a little bit morbid with this entry taking more of a Gothic horror approach and dealing with themes like teenage pregnancy and eating disorders now when it comes to the humor in Freddy Krueger movies there is a lot of nuances
Although the first two movies could have cheeky wink wink nudge nudge moments they were serious horror movies three and four had more comical elements and did make Freddy more humorous and overall in general had an MTV Vibe about them but they were still horror movies with those two movies horror still came
Before The Comedy and I think that’s where Freddy’s Dead gets it wrong it relied a little bit too much on Comedy and cartoon violence and it just wasn’t really scary yeah a Freddy movie without the Fear Factor I think that when it gets to the stage that Freddy is dressed
Like the wicked witch from Wizard of Oz and is playing with a Power Glove the goofball comedy approach may have gone too far but that’s just my opinion number six David Lynch and John Waters were Inspirations so yeah there’s no deny ding it Freddy’s Dead is one strange
Chapter in the franchise what of its use of wacky comedy and more cartoonish approach with its violence something else that’s been attributed to the movie’s offbeat approach was Twin Peaks which was being aired during the early days of Freddy’s Dead’s production and I think you can see the twin peak’s
Influence in the scenes where the characters enter Springwood which does feel like a Lynch and surreal Town however some of these strange scenes may feel like David Lynch but you might also find that visually they look like something from a John Walters movie well that’s because the production also took
Inspiration from Walters films hairspray and crybaby in fact according to several sources a great deal of the crew from Crybaby were then subsequently brought in and used for Freddy’s Dead and in many ways the movies do look alike and supposedly even Divine was envisioned for a small role that being the woman on
The airplane but sadly Divine had already passed away at that stage number five deleted character the script for Freddy’s Dead was written by Michael Duca who produced the previous movie and would actually go on to work on many many more movies in the final film the main character is
Maggie Burrows a youth counselor played by Lisa Zayn who yes is the sister of Billy Zayn where in the movie there’s the Revelation that she’s Fredy Krueger’s daughter which is an interesting Direction however in a very early script the main character was going to be Jacob Johnson AKA Alice’s
Baby who she was pregnant with in the previous movie only he was now going to be 15 years old and Alice was to return too now in her 30s and was to be killed off by Freddy and the Dream Warriors themselves were going to return and they
Were going to be known as The Dream Police oh my God that sounds terrible where the Dream Police would team up with Joey to take down Freddy but this version wasn’t made as the production couldn’t secure the return turn of Alice actress Lisa Cox that as supposedly
Rachel Tali hated the script can’t say I blame her and there are some fan theories that the John Doe character is Jacob all grown up yeah when you think about it that would actually make sense and they’re actually is Merit to that as we never find out who or what his identity
Is number four the 3D nightmare so in probably another attempt to inject new life into the re tired series and to try something new it was decided to make Freddy’s Dead a 3D Caper which is strange as although the 3D gimmick did have a brief comeback in the
Mid 80s with attempts like jaws 3D amville 3D and Friday the 13th 3D by the early 90s it had somewhat fizzled out again but regardless it was decided to take this Freddy movie Into The Third Dimension making Freddy’s Dead the First new line Cinema picture to do so but
What’s even more baffling is the 3D gimmick is only introduced into the movie’s last 10 minutes now maybe I’m wrong but that kind of makes it feel like this was a last minute afterthought to try and insert some punch into the movie where we get the concept of Freddy
Vision where 3D glasses can be worn in the dream world now I’ve heard some people say that when the movie was shown in theaters the 3D was pretty good but I’ve heard others say that the effect was really lackluster to it being downright bad and apparently some audience members didn’t even know when
To put on the 3D glass and completely missed out on the 3d effect yeah when the Maggie character puts on her 3D glasses that was apparently C for the audience to put on their 3D glasses and a huge chunk of the audience didn’t catch on to that now I can’t pass
Comments on the movies 3D effects cuz I’ve never seen them but when released on VHS and further home Medias as well as TV broadcasts the 3d effect has been removed apart from the UK and French VHS rental versions as well as the laser disc version and the 199 9 box set which
Featured all the other movies so you’ll just have to track those down if you really want to see the movies finale in 3D in addition to that according to Wikipedia the company that was in charge of the movie’s 3D conversion sent the production some test footage but accidentally sent them footage from
Terminator 2 Judgment Day which hadn’t even been released yet at that time whoops oh dear yeah I’m sure James Cameron would have had a lot to say about that if he knew number three Freddy’s Dead cameos Freddy’s Dead features several appearances from well-known faces in either small cameos or minor rolls of
Which the Freddy franchise wasn’t really known for having famous people randomly popping up in brief scenes here and there but here we are it sure does happen in Freddy’s Dead these include Alice Cooper who plays Freddy’s father who took the part as he was a fan of the
Series the movie’s main song was performed by poop of which that song was nominated for a Razzi but never mind I guess the legendary Yap fet Cotto was cast as the character doc he was kind of like an old wise Mentor I guess you could say kind of like this movie zi-wan
Kenobi the movie also features Tom Arnold and rosean bar who were married at that time but the most fascinating Cameo is that of Johnny Depp who previously starred as Glenn in the first movie I guess this was to tie what was supposed to be the last movie to the
First movie and interestingly he is credited as Oprah noodle Mantra Oprah noodle Mantra Oprah noodle Mantra huh I don’t get it speaking of things randomly turning up there’s a scene where the spener character is playing a game boy but if you look closely that doesn’t look like a Game
Boy but more like a white calculator and the production for yep that’ll do that looks game boyish enough number two a character Switcheroo so the First Act of the movie focuses on the John Doe character with it being believed that he is Freddy’s Offspring till we get the twist revealed that it’s the Maggie character the part was played by Shan greenblat and as his journey goes on he is sent to a facility
For troubled youths where he meets other teenage characters including Spencer played by Breen mayor Tracy played by Leslie Dean and Carlos played by Ricky Dean Logan now Ricky Dean Logan who played Carlos originally was cast as the movie’s pivotal role of John Doe but as the production went on he just felt like
He gravitated more to the Carlos character so because of that he was switched to the Carlos part Leslie Dean had an unfortunate incident while filming her fight scene with Freddy when Robert England accidentally hit her on the head with the back of his glove which led to a trip to the hospital some
Stitches and a tetanus shot good one Freddy what me I didn’t mean to and Final Nightmare is the first movie in the franchise to feature extended scenes of Robert England without his Freddy makeup yes we’ve seen his face briefly before in minor scenes in previous movies but here’s an entire
Sequence of unburned Freddy showing the character before his Boiler Room burning number one Funeral for a boogeyman so the Everlasting defeat of Freddy Krueger was a big deal at the time this was considered the end of a character the end of an era this was it Freddy was
Going to die so naturally new line Cinema wanted to make a big event out of it where a mockup funeral was held for the character which was attended by several cast and crew of the movies including Rachel toell so in part this funeral was done to get the word out
There there is no more Freddy spoilers he returns 3 years later so Freddy’s Dead the Final Nightmare was released in September 1991 and it made just shy of $35 million on a budget that sat somewhere between $9 to1 million so it made some profit and it actually made
More in the box office than a Nightmare on Elm Street 5 and it actually had the highest opening weekend in the series at that time that is until Freddy versus Jason came out 13 years later however the movie was seen as a disappointment and was torn apart by critics and fans
And is frequently described as being people’s least favorite Freddy movie something that I think did not help the movie as mentioned was its wacky Oddball humor and cartoonish violence my issue is this though for a movie that promises to be an epic end to the Freddy Saga it
Really lacks momentum and spectacle and if anything it feels milder than your usual Elm Street movie when I was a kid Freddy’s Dead was kind of known as the child friendly Freddy movie the one that your parents didn’t mind you watching if it was on TV as it wasn’t as horrible as
The other movies even Freddy’s Burns makeup looks toned down this time and not as horrific and it doesn’t stand out as much as it usually does almost looking like this might be a PG-13 Freddy Krueger look I think they tried something different and you have to commend Rachel to lelli for throwing
Away The Nightmare on Elm Street handbook and going in a different direction I think that takes a lot of guts but I just think the direction it took was a little misguided but that said if you look at the movie like a cartoon or a comic book it does have
Lots of fun and as always Robert England looks like he’s having a ball and the movie does have some interesting visuals and ideas but it’s my least favorite entry in the original series but you know what that’s okay one movie had to take that spot but considering that
Final Nightmare is very watchable if this is Freddy at his worst then and it can’t be all bad it’s kind of a popular Trend to Now kill off iconic characters in movies like H solo John Connor and James Bond etc etc it’s a tired gimmick that has
Now been done to death so when you think about it Freddy’s Dead was kind of ahead of the curve as it already did that 30 odd years earlier and Hollywood should have learned from Freddy’s Dead that it just doesn’t work work and can never live up to the momentum anyway I’m mincy
Krueger and I’ll see you in your Dreams Go
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