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Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
A return to form after the somewhat underwhelming fifth
entry, this sixth (and final?) entry was the first film in the series of the 90’s
and embraces the new decade and spunk. Set in a town where Freddy has killed
nearly all of the children, he attempts to leave Springwood to find fresh
victims.
We meet Maggie (Lisa Zane), Freddy’s estranged daughter,
discovers her lineage and uncovers Freddy’s origins, becoming key to stopping
him. With the help of her clients, a group of estranged youth who live in a
teen orphanage of sorts, they must work together and stop Freddy once and for
all.
Freddy is at his most cartoonish and humorous here, mocking
his victims and incorporating absurd elements, like video games, into his
kills. Definitely taking inspiration from the rise of the Nintendo video game
console of the time, you might cringe at some of these scenes and wonder when
Freddy stopped being scary, but the film has it’s own unique charm.
Freddy creates exaggerated, surreal dreamscapes with
bizarre, almost slapstick elements. His kills are comedic yet violent, and we
even see a cameo from Johnny Depp, returning as his doomed character Glen from
the first film. Look out for a young Breckin Meyer too, from “Clueless” and “Road
Trip.”
The ultimate showdown is set where Maggie, with the help of
3D dream technology, confronts Freddy in his mind and pulls him into reality,
where she kills him with a pipe bomb. The use of 3D for its final ten minutes
or so, was meant to be a drawing card into movie theatres at the time, but the
finished product laves much to be desired.
But stick around for the end credits, for an impressive montage of Freddy’s greatest hits from the previous five films, sending the message that Freddy is dead once and for all. But is he really?
"One, two, he’s coming through…
Three, four, as something more.
Five, six, Heather’s fix…
Seven, eight, myth’s deadly weight."
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