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Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
And so we reach the “final” film of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Final? Sure. While the studio may have intended for this to be its final stroll down Elm Street, it wasn’t. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare releases three years later, and a remake of the original film shows up in 2010. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this movie even if it wasn’t the conclusion. Released two years after the fifth, the onscreen text before the film starts lets the audience know that we are now ten years in the future. There’s been some online debate as to whether or not this is ten years from the end of the fifth film or the release of this one, but either way, it’s in the future.
Springwood is practically demolished; Freddy has rid the town of kids entirely. In a nearby town, John Doe shows up at a youth shelter with only a newspaper clipping and no memory of how long he’s been awake or who he is. Turns out he’s the very last kid from Springwood, and it’s Freddy’s goal to use John to find new kids for him to seek revenge on. Along with a few other kids from the shelter and a psychiatrist named Maggie, John revisits Springwood in the hopes of figuring out who he is and how to stop dreaming of Freddy.
A few surprise cameos show up in this film, which was awesome, and Breckin Meyer plays Spencer, a troubled teen, in his first theatrical role. Aside from that, I’ll start with why this…
