best movie i've ever seen.

A Major Disappointment

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Indeed, Freddy's dead. I laughed so hard throughout this monstrosity, but still felt as if this franchise needed to die. The direction is horrid, the script was no better, and the story. The story was just so bad. So yes, I enjoyed this movie. However, it ruins anything positive left after 4 and 5. New Nightmare revitalized Freddy and Freddy vs. Jason was a fun horror duel. Please, however, if you watch this movie, beware. It very well may turn you away from the horror genre permanently. I can't unsee it, but you can turn back. Just skip to New Nightmare for the good of all mankind. Sorry, Robert. F- - -10/10

By far I have never seen such a joke of a movie. It is surprising to me why would anyone put this crap on a high spot in any of the polls. The acting, the story line are just atrocious. The pace is so slow and uninteresting that you fall asleep halfway the movie's run. The comedic approach and references to pop culture are done absolutely wrong. You can see the influence if the early 90's cinematography and it is not a good news. The cast is so bad and annoying that you actually get why any of those kids have or had a career. Even Robert Englund did not try in this one and gave up. His mediocre efforts throughout this movie are now epic. Avoid this garbage at all cost!

I haven't been watching a lot of movies lately because I have a hard time sitting through something that lasts for well over an hour without getting restless. Either ending up on my phone or just getting out of bed to do a couple laps in my flat, which is really just two steps forward and two steps back. But, it's October, and I really wanted to watch at least one horror movie this month. Still haven't gotten around to it.At best this is a slasher flick riddled with slapstick humor. Most of the horror is replaced with what can barely be described as dark humor, and there's not much that's surreal about the nightmare world. Carlos' kill was pretty neat, but other than that I don't have much in the way of positive words. I really don't appreciate the movie exploring Freddy's life, I much preferred him when he was a more mysterious supernatural creature. Turns out he was just another twisted kid turned serial killer? Lame.

I put off writing this review for a long time as it is arguably the worst entry into the series (except for maybe Freddy vs. Jason and the atrocious remake - but more on that later) and by far my least favourite, as everybody's favourite dream killer hacks his way through yet another batch of sleep deprived teenagers to get to his daughter, a social worker for said teenagers, in order to make his way out of Springwood (whose population of children he has successfully slaughtered) and into the consciousness of a new town to terrorise.Yes, they waited until the 'final' instalment of the franchise to reveal that before (or whilst) he became a serial child killer, Freddy was a family man with a wife and child; a set-up which simply falls flat, firstly because it was always heavily implied that Freddy had been forced to lurk in boiler rooms due to his social outcast role in the community - so this revelation just comes out of nowhere - and secondly, because although I feel the series had already become somewhat lacklustre before this movie, the characters in Freddy's Dead are so unbelievably dull, which equates to a very anti-climactic 'send-off' for this horror icon.I can't help but feel that the movie would've packed more of a punch if they'd found a way to bring back characters from previous movies in the series to defeat Freddy for a 'final' time.I've always been fairly generous when judging the Elm Street series as even after the movies themselves stopped being 'scary' I've always given props to the creativity of the visuals and ideas (i.e. the idea of the teenagers having dream powers and abilities suited to their personalities), but all of that is just gone in this movie; none of the characters have any interesting traits, powers or abilities and after having watched Freddy's Dead again recently, for the purpose of writing this review, I did enjoy the sequences where the John Doe character keeps finding himself in situations where he is falling through the sky but this is completely overridden by the cringe worthy video game/power glove sequence.Oh, and the movie attempts to explain the origins of Freddy's powers which is not only incredibly lame but unnecessary.(You've probably noticed that I've written the word 'final' in quotation marks; that's because I like to think Freddy's REAL send-off came out just three short years after this movie's release...)