Review of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) by Jesse M — 19 Mar 2015
For me, this is where they really dropped the ball. As an attempt to be a bookend to the series, this film fell flat on its face... in 3D! This has by far the worst Freddy make up job in the franchise... It looks like it was done with cheap Halloween make up. The character of Freddy is also just as woeful... some of the time anyways. In this film he is full on comedian which was hit and miss, but worse yet he lost what menacing edge he had left.
The cast was actually pretty good, and certainly helped carry an otherwise ridiculous picture full of silly cameos, goofy references to Wizard of Oz and Nintendo, and some pretty bad special fx. Which leads to the biggest let down in horror history(at the time).
His ultimate demise was not only reduced to cheap 3D gimmicks, but Freddy gets snuffed like a BITCH... as he would undoubtedly put it if he saw it. Not to mention the solution to "beating him" was already done the first time in Nightmare 1... How do they figure it would work THIS time??
It's a tolerable film if you're a fan of the series with some amusing bits here and there, but Freddy's Dead was not what I would call a proper burial.
This review of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) was written by Jesse M on 19 Mar 2015.
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare has generally received mixed reviews.
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