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'''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare''' (1991) was the only film in the [[Nightmare on Elm Street series]] to be directed by a woman: [[Rachel Talalay]]. | '''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare''' (1991) was the only film in the [[Nightmare on Elm Street series]] to be directed by a woman: [[Rachel Talalay]]. | ||
It | It's a horror movie with more camp and humorous elements than its NOES predecessors, although it still contains disturbing imagery, continuing the series' theme of child abuse in particular. | ||
== Trivia == | |||
[[Rachel Talalay|Talalay]] made a deliberate decision to get away from all the birth and pregnancy imagery used in some of the earlier films (such as ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child]]''). | [[Rachel Talalay|Talalay]] made a deliberate decision to get away from all the birth and pregnancy imagery used in some of the earlier films (such as ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child]]''). | ||
A section of the film was originally screened in theatres in 3-D, but this effect does not appear in most video releases of the film. The 3-D | A section of the film was originally screened in theatres in 3-D, but this effect does not appear in most video releases of the film. The 3-D gimick was a request from the studio, which constrained Talalay's options as a director by adding many technical difficulties to the ending, which she had originally intended to have a much larger scale. | ||
[[Rachel Talalay]] has said<ref>[http://nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com/nightmareinterviewsrachel.html Q&A with Rachel Talalay], From March 22, 2005.</ref>: | |||
:3-D was really unwieldy and didn't work very well. We didn't have the resources to test the technology well enough. So we were winging it. I think it barely worked and limited everything I could do at the end. It was pure gimick, and cost a lot of money that I would have used to make the rest of the film better and not have a lame ending take place in a room the size of my bedroom. | |||
:The other day I was discussing with my man whether it was a mistake to go the humorous, tongue-in-cheek route with Freddy. I wondered if we should have gone full-on horror. He reminded me that at the time it was the right decision. We were burned out on ideas, on scripts, and horror was predictable. We were looking for something to make it different. | |||
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John Doe, who thought he was Freddy's son for most of the movie, dies. It turns out that Freddy had a daughter -- Maggie, the youth center's child psychologist. She enters the dream world and brings Freddy back to reality, where she kills him. | John Doe, who thought he was Freddy's son for most of the movie, dies. It turns out that Freddy had a daughter -- Maggie, the youth center's child psychologist. She enters the dream world and brings Freddy back to reality, where she kills him. | ||
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Revision as of 23:25, 7 March 2007
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) was the only film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series to be directed by a woman: Rachel Talalay.
It's a horror movie with more camp and humorous elements than its NOES predecessors, although it still contains disturbing imagery, continuing the series' theme of child abuse in particular.
Trivia
Talalay made a deliberate decision to get away from all the birth and pregnancy imagery used in some of the earlier films (such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child).
A section of the film was originally screened in theatres in 3-D, but this effect does not appear in most video releases of the film. The 3-D gimick was a request from the studio, which constrained Talalay's options as a director by adding many technical difficulties to the ending, which she had originally intended to have a much larger scale.
Rachel Talalay has said[1]:
- 3-D was really unwieldy and didn't work very well. We didn't have the resources to test the technology well enough. So we were winging it. I think it barely worked and limited everything I could do at the end. It was pure gimick, and cost a lot of money that I would have used to make the rest of the film better and not have a lame ending take place in a room the size of my bedroom.
- The other day I was discussing with my man whether it was a mistake to go the humorous, tongue-in-cheek route with Freddy. I wondered if we should have gone full-on horror. He reminded me that at the time it was the right decision. We were burned out on ideas, on scripts, and horror was predictable. We were looking for something to make it different.
Summary
Freddy Krueger sends the only surviving teenager of the town of Springwood out into the world to bring him back new victims.
John Doe, who thought he was Freddy's son for most of the movie, dies. It turns out that Freddy had a daughter -- Maggie, the youth center's child psychologist. She enters the dream world and brings Freddy back to reality, where she kills him.
References
- ↑ Q&A with Rachel Talalay, From March 22, 2005.