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Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare Movie Review

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare is a 1991 slasher film directed by Rachel Talalay and starring Robert Englund. It’s one of the worst entries in the franchise.

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“I didn’t need a glove to kill your bitch of a mother,

and I don’t need one now!“

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Dream-haunting Freddy Krueger returns once again to prowl the nightmares of Springwood’s last surviving teenager, and of a woman whose personal connection to Krueger may mean his doom. This was the last entry in the original series before its spin-off and eventual remake. And it ended the series on a very bad note.

I actually like the campiness of these movies, but here the movie went overboard with those campy, over-the-top and ridiculous scenes that it ended up being way too silly for its own sake. The worst offender is the plot. What they did to Freddie here was horrendous and that entire family subplot was both stupid and oh so laughable at times.

It would have worked had Lisa Zane been better and more memorable in the role of Maggie/Katherine. But she was simply bland and so was her character. The others were only just there to be killer fodder and nothing more than that.

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And that brings me to Freddy Krueger himself. He actually got some very solid moments to shine here, especially when he was killing the other characters. But the scenes with Katherine were way too odd and dumb for them to work, though I did appreciate that Robert Englund did his best in a very committed performance. Freddy’s Dead has a fun, catchy score and some fine visuals, but nothing in the fantastical department that could rival most of the other movies in the franchise.