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Not a huge fan of Freddy's Dead, but it's grown on me over the years. Director Rachel Talalay worked with John Waters a couple of years before this and you can see his influence as well as the Twin Peaks influence in the Springwood sections. You may have noticed her name in the credits going back to the first film as she's been part of the crew since the beginning. It's cool to see her work her way up the ladder to help kill off Freddy.

There's been so many different scripts over the years including one from Peter Jackson which involved Freddy being considered a joke by the kids of Springwood. So much so that they would purposely enter the dream world just to kick him around. Yeah, weird stuff. In earlier versions, John Doe is supposed to be Jacob who finds help by the "dream police" consisting of Taryn, Kincaid, and Joey. All of this was dropped in the final version written with the amount of time passing since five making it impossible for John to be Jacob. I always thought that part was a shame as I like the prior protagonist moving into the sequel.

Remember that power glove line? Nintendo said "no" to authorizing its use. Producer Robert Shaye responded with how he didn't give a damn and used it anyway.


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