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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (A Nightmare on Elm Street 6)

1991

Rachel Talalay

Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Yaphet Kotto, Shon Greenblatt ...

4.2

5,932

Horror Freddy Krueger, the evil dreamstalker, returns to lure his son back to Springwood. This time he may have met his match in his own child, but not before he enjoys some fiendish games of his own.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"You know Freddy may or may not be finally dead, but he's looking pretty damn tired (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The 'Elm Street' films have always been a cut above the competition, so to speak, with their playfully malevolent dream sequences and their mocking, ever-resourceful villain."	POS
United States	Richard Harrington The Washington Post	"So long, Freddy, it's been good to know you."	NEG
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"Only for those in the right state of mindlessness (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Sixth and final edition in the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' feature series delivers enough violence, black humor and even a final reel in 3-D to hit paydirt with horror-starved audiences."	POS
United States	Kenji Fujishima AV Club	"Perhaps this ill-conceived stab at horror-comedy was only logical considering the direction Freddy Krueger himself had taken in the recent sequels"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The joke is on the filmmakers: By taking the finality out of death, they've already robbed the horror genre of its giddy sting."	NEG
United States	Stephen Harber Den of Geek	"[It] wasn’t about scaring people; it was about providing closure (...) It was the ultimate demystification of an icon (...) That, we can all agree, is the film’s greatest victory."	POS
United States	David Nusair Reel Film	"It's ultimately impossible to label as anything more than a desperate, relentlessly tedious cashgrab that bears little in common with its comparatively masterful progenitor (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG

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