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Starring:
Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Lezlie Deane, Ricky Dean Logan, Breckin Meyer, Yaphet Kotto, Roseanne, Tom Arnold, Elinor Donahue, Johnny Depp, David Dunard, Marilyn Rockafellow, Cassandra Rachel Friel, Virginia Peters, Shon Greenblatt
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Rachel Talalay
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Wes Craven, Rachel Talalay
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 6: Freddy's Dead (1991)
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Movie Review by Jarrod
December 3rd, 2007
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'Freddy's Dead' is the sixth movie in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, started by Wes Craven in 1984. The original was a truly great and imaginative horror film, and none of its sequels came close to matching it in terms of quality, as Freddy (Robert Englund) became less of a monster and more of a comedian, throwing out witty lines before he killed his victims. Freddy returned for a seventh time (in Wes Craven's New Nightmare) and he also showed up to battle with Jason in a 2003 flick.
'Freddy's Dead' is more or less a stinker, with a lot of dumb backstory, and mystical mumbo-jumbo about how Freddy's powers were given to him by a trio of dream spirits or something to that effect. Here, we learn that Freddy had a child. A young man known as John Doe (Shon Greenblatt) shows up in a facility for troubled teens. One of the counselors there is Maggie Burroughs (Lisa Zane), another is Doc (Yaphet Kotto), both work diligently to take care of their patients. Doe believes he is Freddy's son. In addition to Doe, you have Tracy, who practices her martial arts, and tries to forget about the sexual abuse she endured from her father. Spencer (Breckin Meyer) is a stoner, and Carlos has a hearing aid, after being physically abused by his mother. Freddy starts haunting their dreams, and all of them, especially Tracy, is reluctant to sleep. There is the whole thing about how if you can bring Freddy into the real world, you can kill him, and to do this, you must be holding onto him when you wake up. You have Freddy appearing as the witch riding on a broomstick, and messing with Spencer in a video game illusion, equipped with that terrible Power Glove accessory for the NES, which was first showcased in The Wizard.
These two scenes are ridiculous, not amusing in the least, and really strip Freddy of his dignity, especially the latter one, though it accompanies a death sequence that is quite imaginative, like the comic book-inspired demise of Mark in Nightmare on Elm Street V. You learn that Freddy killed his wife after she accidentally discovered his little workshop in the basement, and that his daughter found it, as well, but lived, at least until Freddy was made to answer for his crimes. Yeah, it's a girl. But this isn't much of a surprise, and if you care enough about the story to be outraged at this minor spoiler, here is a bigger one, Maggie is Freddy's daughter, and she doesn't know it, and is not overly thrilled when she finds out. Who would be?
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