FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE Talk about a wild-assed ride. In-house New Line talent Rachel Talalay took the reins for this sixth jaunt down Krueger Way in 1991, and she did it with an admirable sense of style and innovation. By now, it was time to abandon the running storyline of Alice and her interactions with Freddy's mother and return the storyline to fresh ground. As a result, the timeline seems to jump ahead several years, possibly even a decade. Springwood is now practically a ghost town, save for a gaggle of creepy and deranged adults (among them, Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold in amusing cameos). A trio of misfit teens are led by their caseworker Maggie (Lisa Zane) in a bid to solve the mysteries behind their horrific nightmares....but Maggie's got a few buried secrets of her own, and she may not be ready to face them yet. Specifically, she has a special tie to Fred Krueger, and a dream analyst colleague (Yaphet Kotto) may be her only hope at solving the conundrum and easing the pain of these tortured teenagers. What follows is perhaps the most imaginative entry in the series yet. Freddy's origins have been explained in previous films, but the elements that allowed him to become supernatural are final divulged in an intriguing fashion. The theatrical version of Freddy's Dead featured the final confrontation sequence presented in red-blue 3-D, a gimmicky but entertaining perk that was lost in the video transfer. Fred Krueger's undoing in this film was not undermined by Wes Craven's smart follow-up three years later; read the review and you'll see why. Freddy the movie character was, by the end of this picture, effectively dead. << Previous Review | Next Review >> Cast: Robert Englund .... Freddy Krueger Lisa Zane .... Dr. Maggie Burroughs Shon Greenblatt .... John Doe Lezlie Deane .... Tracy Ricky Dean Logan .... Carlos Breckin Meyer .... Spencer Yaphet Kotto .... Doc Roseanne .... Childless Woman Tom Arnold .... Childless Man Elinor Donahue .... Orphanage Woman Oprah Noodlemantra .... Teen on TV Cassandra Rachel Frel .... Little Maggie David Dunard .... Kelly Marilyn Rockafellow .... Maggie's Mother Virginia Peters .... Woman in Plane Stella Hall .... Stewardess Angelina Estrada .... Carlos' Mother Peter Spellos .... Tracy's Father Tobe Sexton .... Teen Freddy Michael McRab .... Spencer's Father Matthew Faison .... Springwood Teacher Vic Watterson .... Officer #1 Warren Barrington .... Cop in Shelter Mel Scott-Thomas .... Security Guard Jonathan Mazer .... Angry Boy rest of cast listed alphabetically Carlease Burke .... Officer #2 Alice Cooper .... Freddy's Father (uncredited) Johnny Depp .... Teen on TV (uncredited) Lindsey Fields .... Loretta Krueger Linnea Quigley Robert Shaye .... Bus Ticket Booth Man (uncredited) << Back