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Freddy's Dead
the one line review:
about as scary as a wet sponge
the overview
This was another film that I purely watched for continuity's sake. I've seen the others, I thought I'd see this. What a waste of 91 minutes.
the plot:
We all know the Freddy Krueger story. Freddy is some evil psychopath who stalks kids by killing them in their dreams. In each of the previous 5 (yes 5) films, they've tried to kill him in a variety of ways, but none of them worked.
In this lousy sequel, Freddy has killed all the kids in Springwood, Ohio, and is now trying to get access to a new set of kids in a new town. He's doing this by using the last remaining kid as a vessel to get there. He in turns hooks him up with his long lost daughter, who is the only one who can kill him for good.
the verdict:
Crap. Nightmare on Elm Street 1 is an institution. Scary as you like (especially at age 12) full of chilling moments. Freddy is an evil character and it scares the tits off you. This (and pretty much all of the other Freddy films) is rubbish. It's not scary. The plot is flimsy at best. The effects are crap. Many parts of the film are simply laughable.
Robert Englund has got himself typecast as that guy who played Freddy. I'm not surprised. There's no real point to this film, especially as the title "Freddy's Dead" would seem to imply that this time, Freddy actually fucking dies. Not so, because they made another one after it.
In this, they made part of the film a 3D sequence. Which is crap, because, no video rental will include the 3D glasses, so you don't get the effect. The video game sequence is pitiful.
The only thing to say about this is that you'll spend most of the film trying to figure out why you know one of the characters (Breckin Meyer) looking very young. It's because he escaped the B-movie roles by being excellent in Road Trip. Other than that, avoid this film like the plague. A particularly nasty strain of the plague at that.
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