Wow. What we have here is a magnificently senseless and silly Elm Street film. I know it's a taboo to say, but it can't get any worse than this – and it won't, since this abomination is technically the whimper that the Nightmare franchise ended with, since Freddy vs Jason happened via a retcon and New Nightmare is a different breed.
I first thought that this may not be the wisest hour and a half I've spend in my life in the opening five minutes, where the protagonist is subjected to the 'horror' of rolling down a hill for five minutes, moaning like he's giving birth through his anus, but not before witnessing Kruger on a broomstick dressed up as the Wicked Witch of the West taunting him. Speaking of Kruger, was the makeup department on strike or something during production? It looks like they just mashed bubble gum on Englund's face.
After some more silly moments in the opening half hour or so, the film has four unlikable twats travel to Springwood, where all the kids and teenagers have long since been bumped off by Freddy, and as a result the adults all are a bit retarded. This is where the film pretty much runs out of whatever steam it had and becomes a bore fest, going through the typical motions of misguidedly and amateurishly exposing the villain's unnecessary backstory about being bullied as a kid and revealing a protagonist's disturbing rape during childhood at the hands of her own father, but not before we get to see Freddy play Nintendo in 3D and bust out dance moves behind a deaf guy. It's uneven to say the least.
Stale acting and the worst special effects in all the movies mean there isn't much to take from The Final Nightmare, unless you want a lesson in how to strip a horror icon of all his dreadfulness.
Best Scene: The end credits (how embarrassing is that?). It showed us snippets of previous films, making me long to watch them instead of this turd-fest
I first thought that this may not be the wisest hour and a half I've spend in my life in the opening five minutes, where the protagonist is subjected to the 'horror' of rolling down a hill for five minutes, moaning like he's giving birth through his anus, but not before witnessing Kruger on a broomstick dressed up as the Wicked Witch of the West taunting him. Speaking of Kruger, was the makeup department on strike or something during production? It looks like they just mashed bubble gum on Englund's face.
After some more silly moments in the opening half hour or so, the film has four unlikable twats travel to Springwood, where all the kids and teenagers have long since been bumped off by Freddy, and as a result the adults all are a bit retarded. This is where the film pretty much runs out of whatever steam it had and becomes a bore fest, going through the typical motions of misguidedly and amateurishly exposing the villain's unnecessary backstory about being bullied as a kid and revealing a protagonist's disturbing rape during childhood at the hands of her own father, but not before we get to see Freddy play Nintendo in 3D and bust out dance moves behind a deaf guy. It's uneven to say the least.
Stale acting and the worst special effects in all the movies mean there isn't much to take from The Final Nightmare, unless you want a lesson in how to strip a horror icon of all his dreadfulness.
Best Scene: The end credits (how embarrassing is that?). It showed us snippets of previous films, making me long to watch them instead of this turd-fest