“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…” To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original Nightmare on Elm Street , here’s a ranking of the iconic horror franchise.
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9. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
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By the time Freddy's Dead hit theaters in 1991, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) was more comic relief than terrifying slasher villain. Rather than attempt to return him to his horror roots, the "final" Nightmare on Elm Street sequel opted to go all out with an absurdly over-the-top clusterfuck of a movie: cartoonish kills, unnecessary backstory, and celebrity cameos — including then-married couple Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold as two frenzied Springwood residents desperate for new children. It's an embarrassing mess, culminating in a 3D finale that's interesting only as a time capsule of awful '90s things.
Freddy's Dead follows Maggie Burroughs (Lisa Zane), a social worker for troubled teens who learns — spoiler alert — that she's Freddy's long-lost daughter. (Which, what?) There are a lot of pointless flashbacks — including Alice Cooper as dad to self-mutilating teenage Freddy — but the real problem with Freddy's Dead is overkill. Literally. At one point, Freddy drags a bed of nails under a falling victim (Shon Greenblatt) while looking at the audience, as if to say, "Yes, this is really happening." The true lowlight, of course, is the atrocious video game nightmare featuring Breckin Meyer as a hapless stoner.
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
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