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 | Mystery | 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:

Stylized | Rampage | Blood | Tense | Spikes

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
Roseanne	...	Childless Woman (as Mrs. Tom Arnold)
Tom Arnold	...	Childless Man (as Mr. 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 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:

Singapore:NC-16 | Iceland: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

Filming Locations:

Bailey Canyon Wilderness Park, Sierra Madre, California, USA

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

Said to take place "10 years from now". The official NOES website's timeline opted for 1999 in place of 2001, despite the release date of the film in 1991, taking ten years from now to refer to the conclusion of A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989). This actually impacts the placement of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993), since Freddy Krueger's claw emerged from the portal to Hell at the end of that film to seize Jason's hockey mask. This indicates that the defeat of Freddy in his film preceded the events of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When young Freddy is getting ready to smash the gerbil, we see him sneak it off the table as he puts it down.

Quotes:

Classmates: [chanting] son of a hundred maniacs, son of a hundred maniacs, son of a hudnred maniacs...

Movie Connections:

Featured in The House That Freddy Built (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

Everything Remains The Same

Best for last?

I have to give Rachel Talalay credit for this was a decent vehicle for her to make her directorial debut since she'd been affiliated with this series for years before making this movie, but the story couldn't have been weaker. Except for using the character of Freddy, Nightmare 6 bears no major consistency with it's predecessors. We never find out what happened to Alice and her baby. Freddy is starting with a new group of teenagers who aren't relevant to the previous five movies in any way which make them as victims and characters (and, in some cases, as actors) even more forgettable than this movie. Perhaps the only thing that makes this movie watchable is that eeriness that makes Freddy fearsome. The only good thing that can be said about the sequels to this movie is that the eerie element is present in all of them, but is negligible due to overly high body counts, weak stories, and comedy. They shouldn't have used the tagline: "They save the best for last," since I didn't think Freddy's death scene in this movie was a far cry from his previous five.