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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) More at IMDbPro »

• Cameo: [Johnny Depp] in a TV commercial. Depp played a character in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) who was killed when he fell asleep watching TV.
  
  
• Cameo: [Robert Shaye] [producer] selling bus tickets in a booth.
  
  
• Cameo: [Roseanne and Tom Arnold] the childless couple.
  
  
• In the last portion of the movie, from the point at which the lead female puts on the special glasses, to the time at which she takes them off, was originally filmed entirely in 3D. The effect was removed for most home video releases, but the UK rental version included the 3D effect in its entirety, with 5 pairs of anagylphic Red/Blue 3D glasses (similar to the ones in cinemas, but without the advertising) inside the box. The UK retail version was the standard 2D version and the cover artwork differed slightly from the rental one.
  
  
• On 12 September 1991 a day before the U.S. release of the movie, Los Angeles declared it Freddy Krueger Day.
  
  
• Peter Jackson was originally hired to write the screenplay for this film. He wrote a draft, but it wasn't used.
  
  
• Breckin Meyer's first theatrical role.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• When released to home video the 3D sequence was shown in standard format, excluding the UK rental version. However, the Laserdisc version had the full 3D sequence along with the regular version. 2 pairs of 3D glasses were included with the disc. The glasses were similar to the ones given out in theaters, minus the adverts, adhesives and taglines. They were also printed on a thinner cardstock. This was the only way to view the 3D sequence prior to the DVD release in the US.
  
  
• A 16-year-old Jacob Johnson, the son that was born to Alice Johnson in the previous installment, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989), was a major character in the original script. In this first draft of the film, Alice, now in her thirties, was killed by Freddy. Taryn, Joey, and Kincaid from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) also returned as the "Dream Police." In the script, Taryn was the "Blade Cop," Joey was the "Sound Cop," and Kincaid was the "Power Cop." Director Rachel Talalay has stated that she greatly disliked original script and that the rewritten version "saved the day."
  
  
• Cameo: [Alice Cooper] Freddy's abusive pimp father.
  
  
• Rachel Talalay is the only female to direct a film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series.
  
  
• 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).
  
  
• "John Doe" comes to think he may be Freddy's son. As noted earlier, this film takes place 10 years in the future circa 1999. The NOES official website's time line notes that Freddy Krueger's death at the hands of the Springwood parents took place in 1968 (based on the fact that in ‘The Dream Child’, Freddy's mother is said to have died soon after Freddy's trial). This film notes that Freddy's child was taken away from him in 1966 (see the chalkboard scene at Springwood High School). Therefore, John Doe would have to be in his thirties to be Freddy's son - which he obviously was not.
  
  
• During the scene at Springwood High School, several newspaper clippings and other references to Freddy victims appear. Also, written on the chalkboard is "1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki attempts fail".
  
  
• This is the second movie in the series that Freddy drives a bus.
  
  

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