Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Director:

Rachel Talalay

Writers (WGA):

Wes Craven (characters)
Rachel Talalay (story)

Release Date:

13 September 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

You Think You Know About Dreams... You Know Nothing!

Plot:

Freddy Krueger returns once again to haunt both the dreams of his daughter and Springwood's last surviving teenager.

Plot Keywords:

Freddy Krueger | Dream | Nightmare | Teenager | Disfigurement

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Robert Englund	...	Freddy Krueger
Lisa Zane	...	Maggie Burroughs
Shon Greenblatt	...	John Doe
Lezlie Deane	...	Tracy
Ricky Dean Logan	...	Carlos
Breckin Meyer	...	Spencer
Yaphet Kotto	...	Doc
Tom Arnold	...	Childless Man (as Mr. Tom Arnold)
Roseanne	...	Childless Woman (as Mrs. Tom Arnold)
Elinor Donahue	...	Orphanage Woman
Johnny Depp	...	Guy on TV (as Oprah Noodlemantra)
Cassandra Rachel Friel	...	Little Maggie / Katherine Krueger
David Dunard	...	Kelly
Marilyn Rockafellow	...	Mrs. Burroughs
Virginia Peters	...	Woman in Plane

Also Known As:

A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare (Australia) (DVD box title)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: The Dream Lover (USA) (alternative title)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 666: Freddy's Dead (USA) (working title)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 6: Freddy's Dead (USA) (working title)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 6: The Final Nightmare (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence, and for language and drug content.

Runtime:

89 min | USA:105 min (original release) | USA:93 min (TV version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:18 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Mexico:C | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) | Canada:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Bailey Canyon Wilderness Park, Sierra Madre, California, USA

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

When shown theatrically audience members were given one pair of red cardboard 3-D glasses with movie taglines printed on it. The inside arms had adhesives for attaching to standard glasses. There was also an advertisement for House Party 2 (1991) printed on the outside of one arm.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the Carlos Blackboard scene, you can clearly see that the glove knives have plastic or rubber tips on them.

Quotes:

Tracy: I can't find Carlos.
Spencer: You see what's on this TV?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

Soundtrack:

Remember The Night

OK, I think this is Freddy's 6th death already

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street series and once again another bad sequel. I think this is tied up with the last sequel of the Dream Child. I was lucky enough to get the Nightmare on Elm Street series box DVD set for my birthday, so I got to see all the sequels. May I say that I'm just getting more and more disappointed though with these sequels, at least the past two, it just seems like Freddy lost his edge. It's almost like the writers were trying to give Freddy a soul and they're just destroying it instead of reinventing the story. This was a sequel that wasn't needed, sorry to Robert Englund, but this was very much below what Freddy Krueger represents.

Freddy is back, but he's got something we don't know about, a daughter. Maggie, she's not aware that he is her father, but soon she finds out what his dark secrets are and he wants her help. She has to do her best to resist his powers, but it's hard with all the good memories she has of her loving father. Ironic, isn't it? But Freddy isn't giving up without manipulating her into his ways.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare is also presented in 3-D, radical, huh? Note the sarcasm. This is one of the worst sequels, it's tied up with the fifth sequel of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, I'd rather watch the second Nightmare on Elm Street to be honest. This just had bad acting, stupid editing, and just over all a bad idea for a story. I didn't like the concept of it and it just ruined the whole idea of who Freddy Krueger really is, the death master of nightmares, not Father Knows Best.

2/10