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Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare (1991)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3

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The producers insisted that this sixth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series marked the last; no points for guessing that additional sequels followed. This time, homicidal wraith Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) decides to extend his reign of terror past Elm Street. His agent-on-earth is his own long-lost daughter Maggie (Lisa Zane, sister of Phantom star Billy Zane). Securing a job as a dream therapist for troubled teens, Maggie is able to "open up" the minds of her patients so that Freddy

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Aug 21, 2001

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Sixth and final edition in the Nightmare on Elm Street feature series delivers enough violence, black humor and even a final reel in 3-D to hit paydirt with horror-starved audiences.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety
Variety
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Even the much-heralded 3-D finale is murky and unimaginative.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
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The Elm Street films have always been a cut above the competition, so to speak, with their playfully malevolent dream sequences and their mocking, ever-resourceful villain.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
New York Times
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So long, Freddy, it's been good to know you.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
Washington Post
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An admitted guilty pleasure and one that delivers the corn ball gags by the dozens.

October 13, 2011 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

Undoubtedly the nadir of the Elm Street series...

October 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews

One of the weaker entries.

April 5, 2010 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The one interesting idea -- what would a town be like if all the teenagers in it had been slaughtered in five movies? -- is thrown away with a few cheap jokes.

April 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

worst of the series

March 11, 2008

The Final Nightmare marks an end to Freddy's wisecracking ways. This surrealistic nightmare fits the style perfectly, but sometimes lacks in imagination.

November 3, 2007
Cinema Sight

It makes less sense than any preceding Nightmare film...although it's so out-and-out crazy that it's at least a little bit more entertaining than some of them

September 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

The absolute worst entry of the series.

October 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
Filmcritic.com

Not the worst of the series, but far from the best -- and hardly the 'Final' anything.

September 4, 2003
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Audience Reviews for Freddy's Dead - The Final Nightmare

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare may not be one of the best in the series, but you have to admit it's hilarious. This is Krueger at his funniest. NOT scariest, NOT meanest, just funniest. And I don't mean the characters are so funny (although sometimes they are), but Freddy steals the show with his demented sense of humor. This movie is damn funny. It's the most slapstick-ish one in the series. It plays off like a violent cartoon for adults. It's like a movie that knows it's bad but has a good time making fun of itself. That works! There are no scares, no gore, no tension...it's just joke, after joke, after joke. Maybe not all 600 jokes are funny, but I'm sure you'll find about 300 that are. And is that bad? Is a movie that makes you giggle a sucky movie? Why would it be? I like laughing, and Freddy's Dead made me laugh. It's like one big joke, almost a spoof. So for it's worth, this joke rocked. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare is purely fun entertainment. Recommended.

January 17, 2008
creepfreak
jd cryptic

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This is the weakest film in the series, yet. Just when you thought Freddy's Revenge was the worst sequel, this one tops it. At first, I used to love it, but now, I always notice something wrong with the film. The acting sucks, the kills are are cartoonish,Freddy looks like he's made of rubber and the overall film fails to deliver on anything that was great in the previous films. The "end" of Freddy is so lame, it's silly. The film is more comedic than anything and really isn't that great to begin with. The film does have great moments, such as a cameo by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, and Tom Arnold, not even that can redeem this film. The idea was great, but execution was poorly done, and thus Freddy's dead ends being the weakest sequel in the series.
June 9, 2010
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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    1. Freddy Krueger: Kids... [EXPLOSION]
    – Submitted by Brandon D (9 months ago)
    1. Freddy Krueger: I'll get you my pretty, and your little soul too!
    – Submitted by Rocky F (14 months ago)
    1. Freddy Krueger: I'll get you my pretty, and your little soul too!
    – Submitted by Rocky F (14 months ago)
    1. Freddy Krueger: I'll get you my pretty, and your little soul too!
    – Submitted by Andrew K (16 months ago)
    1. Carlos: Well the map says we're fucked!
    – Submitted by Andrew K (16 months ago)
    1. Springwood Teacher: (smiles) Freddy 101!
    – Submitted by Creep F (23 months ago)

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