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So_Hajile posted...

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.

If I'd have been the creator of Freddy Krueger, I would not have been pleased with a movie like Freddy's Dead. I wonder if the idea of having an alternate dimension or future timeline in which Freddy has wiped out all children was in response to Peter Jackson's original idea. "He's lost power and is beaten up by kids? No. In fact, he's wiped them all out!"

I wouldn't be surprised if the opening title card was something left in from a rejected screenplay. They tell us that all of the kids and teens in the US have been mysteriously wiped out 10 years into the future, but then it never factors into the plot aside from two passing lines about teenager John Doe being "the last." And he's knocked from his dimension (the future?) to ours at the beginning. There are clearly still kids in the time and space where he spends the rest of the movie.

I thought it was fun, in an enjoyably bad way, but the franchise had clearly run its course by that point. A New Nightmare was a nice eulogy.

(But even then, as I'm about to find out, Freddy would not remain dead.)

AvlButtslam posted...

Do Freddy vs. Jason too

That one is next.