paulclaassen
The official final chapter in the series and I officially did not enjoy it one bit. The effects and make-up are reminiscent of a B-movie. More of a spoof than to be taken seriously. Extremely disappointing.
TheLittleSongbird
The original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is still to me one of the scariest and best horror films there is, as well as a truly great film in its own right and introduced us to one of the genre's most iconic villains in Freddy Krueger. It is always difficult to do a sequel that lives up to a film as good as 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' let alone one to be on the same level.As far as 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' sequels go, there are good ones such as 'The Dream Master' (number 4) and especially 'Dream Warriors' (number 3) but also disappointing ones with 'The Dream Child (number 5) and this 'The Final Nightmare' (the second film 'Freddy's Revenge' was also underwhelming but not as much as 5 and 6). Very little to recommend, with the only good things being Robert Englund doing his conscientious and freaky best and the haunting music.While a little better-looking than the fifth film, being not as crude and self-indulgent, the suitably nightmarish at times production design is wasted by the film looking drab and dreary and it can look sloppy. The 3D looks cheap and was truly pointless. Like the previous film, erratically paced (both rushed and tedious), ridiculous and non-atmospheric story with scares that are unimaginatively derivative, too far and between and vapidly tame on the whole. It lacks any kind of originality and is all very ho-hum.Englund aside, the acting is both bland and annoying. The cameos from Rosanne Barr, Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper were just as unnecessary as the 3D and are neither interesting or funny. Like the fifth film though, the cast have to work with an awkwardly clunky script and irritating characters that are written childishly and make decisions that frustrate. Even the humour doesn't work, Freddy's one-liners are more stale and toe-curlingly groan-worthy than twisted or witty and what was darkly comic before is replaced by an overload of cheese. The direction is largely unimaginative, while there is far too much of an over-reliance on gimmicks (none fresh or clever) and the ending is one of the lamest and most tacked on there is in horror.Overall, an incredibly tired entry and suggestive that the series is dead. 2/10 Bethany Cox
Rainey Dawn
I like this one better than the 4th and 5th installments. This one gets back to the original town. Has a better story, better music and gets funny. It's a comedy and Krueger's twisted humor gets to shine. Yes it gets dumb but I like dumb comedies sometimes.What's it about? Freddy's back in Springwood he's after the last surviving kid and the woman who is strangely connected to him. He kills some more kids. The End.Not one of the sequels can top the original film. The follow-up films get ridiculous, awful stories but Freddy is still, well, lovable.6/10
Jayme Schmitt
Freddy's Dead the Final Nightmare had so much potential for being the supposedly last Freddy film of all time. The cast and crew even went as far as to fake a funeral for the burnt boogeyman. But with such a low budget and a stake placed so high on the ghoul's legacy, it was hard to live up to the expectation. Even with the addition of 3D, it falls flat on it's face by the end of the film, which is ironic because of how amazing it's set up at the beginning is, which saves it from being awful. Still, I'm still interested in imagining how Peter Jackson's original concept would have struck a nerve at New Line's box office. For those that don't know, Peter Jackson was hired to pen a script in which he wrote a screenplay where Freddy was weak and deprecated in the dream world and the kids would take sleeping pills to purposely fall asleep and beat him up. Still, Rachel Talalay worked hard to get to that position and did fantastic for what it is. Even if it does seemly painfully dated.
AD
