This was released at a point when I was growing out of that childhood phase of being fascinated by the way horror films could make your spine tingle, scare the hell out of you, and make you peak around dark corners in your home and even check under your bed before going to sleep. The things I heard about it were so awful, I didn't have much interest in it, but at some point as an early teen or sometime in middle school I rented it. Watching it for this horror series nearly all of it was familiar and I knew what was going to happen.
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Time has truly not been kind to Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth and intended final
chapter in the Nightmare on Elm Street
series. It is remarkably dated, which is quite a feat considering the climax of
the film was made in 3D, a format that has finally made a big splash in the
film industry after several failed attempts over the decades. It also fails to
find a settled tone, shifting clumsily from traditional horror conventions to
slapstick comedy. The juxtaposition of comedy and horror is incongruous in this
particular film and would be much better handled several years later by Wes
Craven, the man who not so incidentally created the series and its antagonist
Freddy Krueger. Do I need to even mention that Robert Englund returns to play
Freddy, hopefully reaping a sizable paycheck for his efforts?
