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Thanks for the info on Nancy. I didn't know that the producer also made cameos throughout. I was aware that Dream Warriors was Frank Darabont's first writing credit, but I didn't know that the remake of The Blob was another collaboration with Chuck Russell.

Sixth Movie: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

General premise: an amnesiac from the future (a world in which Freddy has successfully killed ALL the children in the United States) is the key to finding Fred Kruger's estranged daughter.

Best Character: Tracy
Worst Character: Tracy's Father
Best Kill: Playing With Power

The good:
- continuity (Freddy lists the ways he's been killed thus far)
- the fateful scene in which Freddy is burned alive is finally shown
- Robert Englund is Fred in the flashbacks (and the younger versions actually look a lot like him)
- "The map says we're fucked!"

The bad:
- the alternate future / alternate dimension in which all children have been wiped out
- the townsfolk of Springwood
- the Twilight Zone-esque inability to simply drive out of the town of Springwood
- if you don't have the budget for original music, just use a really creepy song from the public domain (Night on Bald Mountain by by Modest Mussorgsky)

The weird:
- when the parents of Springwood cornered Freddy and burned him alive, a trio of dream demons came to him and propositioned him to become... a ghost? a demon? er, whatever he is in the dream world. just what we all expected.
- 3D glasses give you dream world protection against mind tricks (and they allowed you to see the dream demons in 3D if you saw this in the theater)
- the Looney Tunes-esque murder sequences

This film is an absolute mess. It's enjoyable, but in the same way as something like The Killer Shrews or Robot Monster. Get some friends together, grab some popcorn, and have yourselves a laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW8DgKm-7vs

Skye's Rating:
Two blades out of four.