Better than Freddy's Revenge.
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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. -
taylorjoe — 10 years ago(June 19, 2015 12:01 PM)
I disagree I liked part 2s uniqueness and Freddy's makeup was terrible in this movie, in part 2 it was probably the best and scariest looking makeup of the series, plus Freddy was still scary in part 2, here he was just a wisecracking joker.
Although this movie does fall into the so bad it's good category for me.
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