Review of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) by Robert W — 28 Nov 2008

After 7 years of dream stalking and slashing, Freddy Krueger meets his maker. By this point, the character had become like a clown, wisecracking like James Bond but with worse skin, and even rapping with the Fat Boys, so an end to the franchise seemed like a logical and necessary step.

This final "nightmare" is an odd, mismatched affair, with moments of creativity (Freddy's killings involving cotton buds, hearing aids, computer games) and some good ideas (the town's gone mental from having no kids around), and cameos from Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper, coupled with moments of bafflement and bewilderment.

Add to that a final act filmed in that staple of the horror genre-3D, and a look into the head of Freddy (quite literally) and a glimpse into his past, and this is an interesting, fun but flawed final addition to The Nightmare on Elm Street series, a franchise that has to go down as the most entertaining horror series ever.

Credit to them too for actually fulfilling their promise and not making further sequels (I don't count New Nightmare as a sequel).