| Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare | |
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| Directed by | Rachel Talalay |
| Produced by | Michael De Luca Michael N. Knue Robert Shaye Aron Warner |
| Written by | Characters Wes Craven Story Rachel Talalay Screenplay Michael DeLuca |
| Starring | Lisa
Zane Shon Greenblatt Lezlie Deane Ricky Dean Logan Breckin Meyer Yaphet Kotto Robert Englund |
| Music by | Brian May |
| Cinematography | Declan Quinn |
| Editing by | Janice Hampton |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | September 13, 1991 |
| Running time | 89 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5,000,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $34,872,033 (domestically) |
| Preceded by | The Dream Child |
| Followed by | Wes Craven's New Nightmare |
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (also known as A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead) is a 1991 American slasher film. It is the sixth – and as the title suggests, intended to be the last – film in the series of films featuring Freddy Krueger. However, the success of the film prevented the series from ending (much like Friday the 13th parts four and nine). Another film, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, was produced following this film. The character of Freddy Krueger then returned in 2003's Freddy vs. Jason.
Robert Englund reprises his role as Freddy Krueger; Lisa Zane, Yaphet Kotto, Breckin Meyer, Shon Greenblatt, Ricky Dean Logan, Lezlie Deane and Tobe Sexton also star. Additionally, several well-known actors make cameo appearances in the film, including Johnny Depp (whose screen debut was in the original Nightmare On Elm Street), Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold and Alice Cooper. Iggy Pop sings the movie's title song, which plays over a montage of scenes from the previous Nightmare movies during the end credits.
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In the year 1999, ten years have passed since the fifth film; Alice Johnson and her son Jacob have moved away from Springwood, and Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) has returned and succeeded in killing nearly all of the children in the town of Springwood, Ohio. The only surviving teenager, known only as "John Doe" (Shon Greenblatt), finds himself confronted by Freddy in a dream and is knocked past the town of Springwood's city limits by Freddy. The city limits serve as a barrier that Freddy cannot cross, and the hole John makes when he goes through the barrier closes as soon as Freddy touches it. However, when John goes through the barrier, he hits his head on a rock and does not remember who he is or why he is outside of Springwood.
Meanwhile, at a shelter for troubled youth, Spencer (Breckin Meyer), Carlos (Ricky Dean Logan) and Tracy (Lezlie Deane) plot to run away from the shelter. Carlos was physically abused by his parents, resulting in a hearing disability, Tracy was sexually abused by her father, and Spencer simply does not want to conform to his father's overbearing lifestyle. John, after being picked up by the police, becomes a resident of the shelter and a patient of Dr. Maggie Burroughs (Lisa Zane). Maggie notices a newspaper clipping in John's pocket from Springwood. In an effort to cure John's amnesia, she decides it would be best to go on a road trip to Springwood to jog his memory. Tracy, Carlos, and Spencer stow away in the van in their effort to escape the shelter, but are discovered when John has a hallucination and almost wrecks the van just outside Springwood.
After encountering the unstable adult inhabitants of Springwood. Meanwhile, Tracy, Spencer, and Carlos, after unsuccessfully trying to leave Springwood, decide to rest at a nearby abandoned house, which transforms into 1428 Elm Street (Nancy Thompson's/Jesse Walsh's former home). Carlos and Spencer fall asleep and become prey to Freddy. Tracy is awakened by Maggie, but John, who went into the dream world with Tracy to try to help Spencer, is still asleep. Maggie and Tracy decide to take him back to the shelter.However, on their way back, Kreuger kills John in his dream. Tracy and Maggie return to the shelter, but they discover that no one remembers John, Spencer, or Carlos except for Doc (Yaphet Kotto), who has learned to control his dreams. Maggie remembers what John told her and discovers her own adoption papers, leaning that she is Freddy's daughter.
Doc discovers Freddy's power comes from the "dream demons" who continually revive him, and that Freddy can be killed if he's pulled into the real world. Maggie decides that she will be the one to enter Freddy's mind and pull him into the real world. Once in the dream world, she puts on a pair of 3-D glasses – the theatrical version of the film was in 3D during the climax – and goes into Freddy's mind. There, she finds out that Freddy was teased as a child, abused by his foster father (Alice Cooper), inflicted self-abuse as a teenager (Tobe Sexton), and murdered his wife,(Lindsey Fields). Freddy was given the power to become immortal from fiery demons. After some struggling, Maggie manages to pull Freddy into the real world.
Both Maggie and Freddy end up in hand-to-hand combat against one another While Maggie continues to battle Freddy she uses several weapons confiscated from patients at the shelter. Enraged by the knowledge of what he has done, she disarms him of his clawed glove Eventually, Maggie stabs Freddy in the stomach with his own glove while she is close to him. Doc then throws Maggie a pipe bomb. After she impales Freddy to a steel support beam she throws the bomb in his chest. Just prior to Freddy's death As she runs away from the impending explosion, Freddy looks into the camera and says "Kids". after which he explodes. The three dream demons are then seen flying out of Freddy after the pipe bomb kills him, unable to revive him in the real world.
In the original script of the film, 15-year-old Jacob Johnson (son of the previous installment's main character, Alice Johnson) was the major character while many of the "Dream Warriors" would return to aid Jacob in defeating Freddy after he kills Alice. This idea was later trashed and rewritten into the final script. Peter Jackson also wrote a screenplay, but it wasn't used.
The last ten minutes of the film are in 3-D. The effect was eliminated for the VHS and television releases - with the notable exception of the UK rental version and the US Laserdisc version. The DVD box set, released in 1999, includes 2 pairs of 3-D glasses to use with the reinstated effect.
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare holds a 12% "Rotten" rating based on 17 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman stated that the film is a "disappointingly ho-hum, without the spectacular - and often very funny - special effects that have become the hallmark of this series."
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare made $12,966,525[1] in the opening weekend, which was the highest opening weekend for the series until the release of Freddy vs. Jason. A final box office total tallied $34,872,033 in the US (making it the fourth highest grossing film in the series[2]).
The soundtrack for the film was released September 24, 1996 by Warner Bros. Records.
Innovation Comics published a three issue comic adaptation of the film. An alternate version of the third issue was published in 3-D in order to recreate the effect also used in the film. The series was also published in the trade paperback format. Innovation followed the adaptation with A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Beginning. The three issue mini-series served as a direct sequel to Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, as Maggie Burroughs continues to have nightmares of her father, Freddy Krueger, following the events of the film. Traveling back to Springwood with Tracy, another survivor from the film, Maggie researches Freddy's life leading up to his death at the hands at of the Springwood parents. Only the first two issues of the series were released before Innovation Comics declared bankruptcy, leaving the third issue still unpublished and the story incomplete. Series writer, Andy Mangels, has since made the original script for issue number three available on his website.[3]
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| | Rachel Talalay talks about the original script - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET : INTERVIEWS - RACHEL TALALAY |
| | Freddy's Dead comic books - Nightmares on Elm Street |
| | The Nightmare On Elm Street Companion - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET FILMS |
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