Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare is a 1991 American slasher movie, with the last ten minutes converted to 3D, that marks Rachel Talalay's first time in the director's chair. Michael De Luca wrote the script. As a direct sequel to *A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child*, it's the sixth chapter in the *A Nightmare on Elm Street* series. The story centers on Freddy Krueger using a teenager with amnesia to get out of Springwood and hunt down fresh victims. It also holds the distinction of being New Line Cinema's debut 3D feature.

The cast includes Lisa Zane, Yaphet Kotto, Breckin Meyer, Shon Greenblatt, Ricky Dean Logan, Lezlie Deane, Tobe Sexton, and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. Several famous faces pop up in cameos: Johnny Depp (who got his start in the original *Nightmare*), Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold, and Alice Cooper. Iggy Pop performs the title song, which plays over the end credits alongside a montage of clips from earlier films in the series.

Released on September 13, 1991, the film got poor reviews from critics. It earned $35 million in the U.S. against a budget of $9–11 million, beating the box office take of its predecessor. Though it was meant to be the final installment, the non-canonical *Wes Craven's New Nightmare* came out in 1994. A later sequel, *Freddy vs. Jason*—a crossover with the *Friday the 13th* franchise—hit theaters in 2003.

**Plot**

Set "ten years from now," Freddy Krueger has returned and wiped out nearly every kid and teen in Springwood, Ohio. The sole survivor, John Doe, faces Freddy in a dream. He wakes up just outside the town line, but a head injury leaves him with no memory of who he is or how he got there.

At a shelter for troubled youth, three residents—Spencer Lewis, a wealthy stoner resisting his father's pressure to conform; Carlos Rodriguez, a boy physically abused by his mother to the point of deafness in one ear; and Tracy Swan, a tough girl sexually abused by her father—plan to run away to California. Police bring John to the shelter, where he becomes a patient of Dr. Maggie Burroughs. She notices a newspaper clipping from Springwood in his pocket. Hoping to cure his amnesia, she organizes a road trip there. Tracy, Carlos, and Spencer stow away in the van but are discovered when John hallucinates and nearly crashes just outside Springwood.

The three teens try to leave town but stop to rest at the aba