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Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare

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Average rating
(52%)
 
Starring: Robert Englund | Yaphet Kotto | Lisa Zane | Breckin Meyer | Alice Cooper | Johnny Depp | Tom Arnold | Tom Arnold | Roseanne
Director: Rachel Talalay
Studio: ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time: 96 mins
Genres: Horror
Languages: English
Released: May 10, 2004
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Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the evil dreamstalker, returns to lure his daughter back to his side. This time he may have met his match in his own child, but not before he enjoys some fiendish games of his own. The film features cameos by Johnny Depp and other familiar faces.

Rating of 2 stars out of 5
Radio Times

Until Wes Craven dragged his seminal Nightmare on Elm Street saga into another realm altogether with his re-energised New Nightmare (1994), the series had ground to a tired halt. Director Rachel Talalay's gimmick-laden sixth instalment about the child-murdering dream-stalker's exploits in nightmare land is a virtual rehash of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, with an astonishingly lame 3-D climax tacked on. Roseanne Barr (billed here as Mrs Tom Arnold), Johnny Depp (who starred in the original) and Alice Cooper make cameo appearances to little effect in a ho-hum blending of reality and surrealism. Only for those in the right state of mindlessness.

Highest rated reviews

3 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:


loz#6 from BRISTOL, 24th September, 2004

In other words A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 6, this essentially marks the end of the film series proper. To be fair this film has a decent idea at it's heart, as Freddy attempts to relocate from his old killing grounds via his daughter, and we get to see a lot of Freddy backstory that has previously only been alluded to - but unfortunately the execution isn't much cop. Despite some good gorey special effects Freddy himself has never seemed less scary - almost every appearance is puntuated by dire puns and comedy poses (the opening where Freddy is cast as the broomstick riding witch from the Wizard of Oz sets the tone), and every time the film starts to get interesting the mood is ruined by a moment of pure cheesiness (witness:the kickboxing abused teen girl character; the jokey video game nightmare; a 90's teen going on a stereotypical 60's hippie drug trip; the junkie clinic with an armoury in the basement, etc). If you've come this far with the series Freddy's Dead will just about be watchable, but it squanders a decent premise by jettisoning any atmosphere for teen movie-style wisecracks and cheesy action sequences.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:


Nightmare 6

TD3000 from Woking, UK, 22nd January, 2006

OK, to watch this movie you REALLY need to see Nightmares 1 - 5 first, or it just wont make sense! The story line is a bit cheesy but any true Freddy fan will love it all the same. Shame about the 3D ending not being on this DVD but it wasn't all that great anyway. After the first 2 sequels Freddy has become more of a comedian than an horrific murderer but thats what is loved about him. The story line in this movie is brilliant and it keeps you really attached until the final showdown between Fred & his offspring!

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:


good film

A Customer from uk, 31st March, 2005

love these films they keep getting better and better!

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:


As Great As The Others

Dave Hall from Bristol, England, 12th August, 2004

Bloody gorey, good shocking moments and suspense. Humor also there like in some of the other films, a bit weird in some places but worth a watch.

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Most recent reviews


A highly enjoyable ending to the series (if it weren't for the next two...)

tunnelweb from from Hamilton, 8th August, 2008

A highly enjoyable ending to an excellent horror series (if it weren't for the next two...). The balance of horror, gore, and comedy is perfect, and, as ever, Freddy loves his job. Where he lacks efficiency, he sure makes up for it with passions and sheer enthusiasm!

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Good

A Customer from Bognor Regis, 5th May, 2008

I haven't seen many of the Freddy films I really enjoyed this one. It has an element of humour but still lots of guts and gore. Worth watching

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Not good.

patricia grice from England, 18th March, 2008

I didn't find this film any good at all. It was really silly and boring.

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0 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:


Sorry excuse for a swan-song

MrBenn from , 10th June, 2007

Far and away the absolute worst of the Nightmare movies. Freddy, once the scariest villian in horror movies, is about as intimidating as John Inman here, camping his way through a series of woefully unfunny one-liners and a barrage of utterly pathetic teen victims. Thank god that New Line had the sense to get Wes Craven back to do New Nightmare, and take the series back to its rightful place as the most sophisticated and imaginative series of the slasher age. Truly, they couldn't have sunk much lower than they do here.

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