Better than Freddy's Revenge.
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jordijl60 — 12 years ago(February 20, 2014 02:45 PM)
Its no way as good as Freddya revenge there's only 3 q nightmare on elm street to me thats the original 3 the rest suck Freddy vs Jason I enjoyed but nightmare on elm street remake was naff need Robert.englund
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Doc110894 — 12 years ago(March 07, 2014 01:35 PM)
Part 2 is one of my favorites of the series. At one time, it was actually my exact favorite.
The narrative in the first half is a little weak, but it makes up for it with creepy atmosphere and some funny scenes.
I love the pool party and the sequence in Grady's bedroom. Some of the best stuff of the whole series. -
Blaze136 — 11 years ago(April 28, 2014 07:35 AM)
Freddy's Dead did a better job of what Freddy's Revenge tried to do, but couldn't:
Be its own movie that largely detached from the plot of the original, while still having a significant enough connection to what was already established.
Even though like FR, FD uses no previously established characters (like most of the other sequels did), it still flows better because you can BELIEVE what they're telling you that Freddy has essentially wiped out that entire town based on what you already know of him, and that he now needs another territory to stalk to continue his evil work. It also does a semi-decent job of expanding on Krueger's own backstory and how he came to be.
By comparison, FR just has so many glaring unanswered questions, loose ends and mythology errors that it becomes impossible to try and piece it to the rest of the series, or even make sense of it for what it is. Were Jesse's parents part of the mob that killed Freddy? How about Lisa's or Grady's? Why did Freddy go out of his way to kill Coach Schneiderwas HE part of the mob? What ever happened to the FR characters, did they live or die? And why was Jesse's/Freddy's house so deserted and dilapidated by Dream Warriors, when it was only a year later? That whole film leaves so many things hanging and unexplained that it's this giant beep of run-on subjectivity with no real conclusions or closure. It's almost like the movie essentially erases itself at the end and none of its events actually happened.
When it comes to sit-down-and-watch entertainment, I actually prefer FR to FD. despite its many, many glitches, I still find it more captivating. And I like the dreadful mood of it (I think it even bests the original in that department) but from a "critical thinking" standpoint, yeah Freddy's Dead IS the superior of the two. -
Absolved — 11 years ago(May 02, 2014 08:04 PM)
EVERYTHING is better than Freddy's Revenge except for that awful remake. Dream Warriors literally saved the series after Revenge threatened to end it.
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AdrianLePier — 11 years ago(September 11, 2014 11:15 AM)
I don't know. It had a bigger budget so it was better produced, and it has a more thought-out s/l than Freddy's Revenge for sure, but the dialogue and direction arguably aren't any better. Dead totally lacks suspense and overt darkness, which is one of the areas where Revenge actually thrived.
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hideo_sakaguchi — 11 years ago(October 02, 2014 10:21 PM)
Yeah I agree with what you said. Everything about Nightmare 6 just seems off. I can forgive Nightmare 2 (to a point) because the "rules" really weren't firmly established until the third film.
Freddy's Dead has some cool stuff regarding Freddy's past and the death of Carlos is actually pretty f-ed up but everything else about this film is a waste. They should have focused less on the current celebrity and pop culture at the time (like Roseanne Barr and Twin Peaks) and more on the actual Nightmare franchise history.
I mean Freddy's Revenge and Freddy's Dead are the two worst in the series but at least Revenge can argue that they were still going through the growing pains of the franchise. The writer and director of Dead have no excuse. Dead was just far too silly and the Dream Demons stuff came out of nowhere and were just tacked on as an excuse for Freddy to be "really dead" this time. His deaths in 3, 4, and 5 all seemed more "final" than this lame crap he got In this one. The Dream Demons being made up as an excuse to take Freddy's power away is just lazy writing. Like why did they decide to abandon Freddy after his death in this movie instead of after his Nightmare 3, 4, or 5 death?
I can stomach Nightmare 1-5 without much problem (actually I enjoy all five of them) but this film just sucks. Every time I do a Freddy marathon I dread when part six just seems to get closer and closer. Even the remake is better than this film.