How about this idea for a final sequel?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — A Nightmare on Elm Street
5535 — 9 years ago(November 12, 2016 10:21 AM)
We start off with the main character dreaming about Freddy. Freddy kills the person, only for the person to wake up and find that they're still alive and not even wounded. Freddy is in fact still dead, and the character was only having a normal nightmare about him, hence why he/she didn't die. The character is not on any meds to suppress dreaming, because Freddy's spirit has been rendered unable to exist in the subconscious of anyone anymore (Those who've never had an encounter with Freddy before, but who've only heard about him or knew him before he was burned), EXCEPT for a small group of monitored patients in the only remaining sleep clinic in Springwood!.
Basically, the patients in this secret hidden clinic are those who've actually had true encounters with Freddy, and who still have memories of him. They are being watched by a team of doctors and scientists who run a new type of equipment designed to place patients in a coma for safety and for studying. The hope is that they'll be able to figure out how to stop any more attacks from occurring, and allow the patients to leave the clinic finally without the need for medicine. The clinic is a way to completely delete Freddy from the patients' subconscious
Now, this is where incorporating Robert Englund's idea would work!
For all of the characters who've only heard about Freddy, or only knew him before he was burned (I might just stick with the main character only for these dream scenes), they dream of him in a different form, slightly altered version of how we as the audience know him. Different types of burns, hats, sweater patterns etc. Now this is only for a couple of small dream moments, because the movie can't afford to be too gimmicky. So one or two dream scenes with an altered idea of Freddy, then we move to:
A hair raising nightmare at the clinic sequence where Freddy has managed to revive himself and take control over one of the patients through some negligence. The patient shuts down the machine controlling the sleep of the others in the room, and they all wake up completely. While they are now finally awake, they have to bare witness to the brutal murder of the doctors who've been helping them all this time. I haven't figured it out entirely, but my idea is that the doctors have somehow fallen asleep or been put to sleep (Twisted reversal of events!), and the once sleeping patients now watch the massacre of them, while an unseen Freddy takes them out! 6 or 7 doctors are killed, and this marks Freddy's first true kill scene in the movie.
The control room and parts of the clinic are crimson red with blood! Blood drips into the control panels and causes even more malfunctions and crackling and sparks. The patients escape the clinic in a mad dash!
Once free, the patients begin to remember where they once lived, and they group together and try to locate their homes, only to find that many of them are now abandoned. They also notice that much of Springwood has been built upon with new sections of the neighborhood added, and that the police force appears to have never heard of Freddy Krueger.
However, one retired police officer does in fact remember Krueger, and was present during the attacks on Nancy and her family and friends.
The patients try and stay alive for as long as they can, considering the clinic operation failed, and considering that there appears to be no more Hypnocil or versions of the drug available anymore. The entire drug has been banned and destroyed.
My main characters are the small group of patients, aged from mid 30's to early 50's, the police officer from the past (Maybe Joseph Whipp as Sargent Parker), the doctor who originally helped create Hypnocil (Someone in their 70's or 80's, maybe a fun cameo by Tom Atkins), and a couple of remaining parents of the original victims who still live in the neighborhood. Maybe one or two teenagers so that we have a pinch of the high school element and that we fear for their safety.
The finale would take place in the neighborhood houses and out in the streets, with some fog added for atmosphere, similar to the ending of the original movie. There's a moment when some of the characters get lost in the fog, and Freddy's glove slowly appears through it to slash at them. I have one character getting the back of their neck slit, with us only seeing Freddy's glove and the back of their neck. Brief shots of his glove causes little slices to injure and mess with the characters while not yet killing them.
The still alive characters have high tech wrist watches with tracking devices on them, and are able to find each other even in dreams (Got to figure this one out). There is an item or dead body located in a certain location in the town that they need to find in order to finish Krueger once and for all.
The main character uses some device in the clinic to monitor the characters and help track them in their dreams.
Now, the big twist I'm kind of going with is that in order to finally kill Freddy, almost -
collint-46427 — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 05:19 PM)
I like the idea of a character dying in a dream and waking up fine. The memories thing is wonky to me because no one in any of the movies until Freddy vs Jason had memories of him and he still slaughtered them
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5535 — 9 years ago(November 25, 2016 07:36 PM)
Good point, and thanks!
I just find it a little too easy for him to be able to enter anyone's dream, despite it working for the earlier movies.
To me, it would seem like a been there done that element to have the same thing again for a final sequel, which is why it should be minimized in terms of who he can attack.
The void at the end would represent the subconscious of the group, and how it's being cleaned of Krueger. Basically, the sleep machine/device is working, and the void is kind of a metaphor, though we obviously see the void etc.
