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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Play trailer Poster for Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare R Released Sep 13, 1991 1h 30m Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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Murderous ghoul Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) has slaughtered every last child in his hometown. He ventures on to a new location, scouting fresh young victims to hack up with his finger blades. He arrives in a small town in which his long-lost daughter, Maggie (Lisa Zane), works as a therapist for troubled youths. He attempts to recruit her for his dastardly pursuits, but she has other ideas. Father and daughter meet for a bloody showdown that will determine Freddy's fate once and for all.
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Reducing the once-terrifying Dream Reaper into a goofy caricature, this joyless climax will leave audiences hoping Freddy stays dead.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly The joke is on the filmmakers: By taking the finality out of death, they've already robbed the horror genre of its giddy sting. Rated: C- Jan 27, 2019 Full Review Kim Newman Empire Magazine 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. Rated: 2/5 Apr 5, 2010 Full Review Variety Staff Variety 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. Mar 26, 2009 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy An abysmal horror flick that suffers from Freddy’s endless (and awful) puns and useless cameos by Johnny Depp, Roseanne Barr, and others. Rated: 1/4 Oct 20, 2024 Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) The producers have decided to throw in the towel for this finger-knived incubus. [Full review in Spanish] Aug 2, 2023 Full Review Cody Leach Cody Leach (YouTube) If there was ever a movie I despise more, I have yet to find it. Freddy's Dead is an insult to the franchise and complete embarrassment for Freddy Krueger. Not a single performance, kill, joke, or cameo (forgive me Alice Cooper!) works in any way. Rated: 0/5 Aug 20, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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JACK B Freddy's Dead has in fact not saved the best for last. This film is not a Nightmare on Elm Street movie, but moreso a looney-tunes cartoon starring Freddy Krueger and some really badly acted characters, while the plot is just a copy of the last several installments. I can have fun with parts of this goofy trainwreck, but I can understand why this movie is despised by the masses. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 12/05/24 Full Review thiago s Filme bacaninha, o roteiro é bacana, o elenco é fraco, gostei do algumas mortes, achei legal a morte do freddy krueger, colocaram o cara como principal, mas na verdade era a filha do freddy krueger, o ruim do filme é que elenco é fraco e não ajudou muito no filme, só a parte da história entre o freddy e a filha dele é legal no filme. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 12/03/24 Full Review Omar G Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), 7/10 rating Lisa Zane as Maggie Burroughs / Katherine Krueger, Lezlie Deane as Tracy Swan. Both women are pretty and have a nice ass. Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, Bob Shaye as Ticket Seller. The best death in the movie was Carlos's. In Bruce Wagner and Wes Craven's Dream Warriors Draft, Freddy had another origin, he was born as a mutant and Kristen Parker could travel through time in dreams. I find it interesting instead of three demons that give him power and that he is the son of a nun and 100 maniacs. They should sell in 4K or show it on streaming Max the version with the scenes that were removed from the film for the home version of Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare (1991). There are several scenes to complete the story of the film. I would like to see them make a fan movie with artificial intelligence when the technology is perfected I hope in a short time. From the first draft of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 6. Written by Rachel Talalay & Michael Almereyda, I gave it a 3.5/5 stars rating. Where Jacob Daniel Johnson aged 16 is the protagonist, Alice Johnson has died, Jacob meets Karen Miller aged 16, Freddy's daughter, with three other kids Wes, Gina and I think the other was called Dean, who live in a Foster House. Where Freddy kills them, there is a lot of participation in the Dreamland in Springwood there are mutant monsters where the Dreams Police which are Kincaind, Taryn and Joey fight with their Dream Warriors powers against Freddy, in the end Jacob dies and joins Taryn and the others, Mr. Underwood appears who hits Freddy and Karen returns to the real Springwood. I have watched Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) many, many times. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/03/24 Full Review Matt C Freddys dead made me lose 84% of my bodys water due to me crying for 73 hours straight after it was over. ❤️ Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/02/24 Full Review Rowan C This movie was pretty much a comedy and it there were so many thing missing to make it a good ending film. The characters were boring, every kill was laughable and this one goes with the worst Freddy movies put out there. There are so many other movies in this franchise that are better than this one, and I'm dissapointed on how this was the movie that ended with Freddy getting killed for good. I would say that this is defintely the most comical that Freddy has ever been and you just can't take him seriosuly. Overall, just a really dissapointing film and I really wish that it couldv'e been better. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/26/24 Full Review Ian L It's not nearly as bad as they say it is----since it was my childhood, I had to give it three stars. Why did I watch it so young? = To be concluded. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/15/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Murderous ghoul Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) has slaughtered every last child in his hometown. He ventures on to a new location, scouting fresh young victims to hack up with his finger blades. He arrives in a small town in which his long-lost daughter, Maggie (Lisa Zane), works as a therapist for troubled youths. He attempts to recruit her for his dastardly pursuits, but she has other ideas. Father and daughter meet for a bloody showdown that will determine Freddy's fate once and for all.
Director
Rachel Talalay
Producer
Robert Shaye, Aron Warner
Screenwriter
Wes Craven, Rachel Talalay, Michael De Luca
Distributor
New Line Cinema
Production Co
New Line Cinema
Rating
R (Horror Violence|Drug Content|Language)
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 13, 1991, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 1, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA)
$34.0M
Runtime
1h 30m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Dolby Stereo
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