Such a frustrating disappointment

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Speaking of which, you know how people often say the even numbered Star Trek films are the best? I think this franchise might be the opposite, and this 6th entry is, fittingly, real bad. The acting is atrocious, Freddy spends too much time just fighting like a normal person, and all the terror has essentially given way to offensively lame comedy. Even some of the cool visuals (inside Freddy's brain, flashbacks) are ruined by the cynical employment of 3D.

I'm fan of A Nightmare on Elm Street but this is the worst out of the series. The film could of done better if they hire the right people and it'll be a decent last film. I would change things to make it more better and I'll fix the story. The movie is so bad that they made another sequel to make it up. They almost had it but it fail.

Indeed, Freddy's dead. I laughed so hard throughout this monstrosity, but still felt as if this franchise needed to die. The direction is horrid, the script was no better, and the story. The story was just so bad. So yes, I enjoyed this movie. However, it ruins anything positive left after 4 and 5. New Nightmare revitalized Freddy and Freddy vs. Jason was a fun horror duel. Please, however, if you watch this movie, beware. It very well may turn you away from the horror genre permanently. I can't unsee it, but you can turn back. Just skip to New Nightmare for the good of all mankind. Sorry, Robert. F- - -10/10

I put off writing this review for a long time as it is arguably the worst entry into the series (except for maybe Freddy vs. Jason and the atrocious remake - but more on that later) and by far my least favourite, as everybody's favourite dream killer hacks his way through yet another batch of sleep deprived teenagers to get to his daughter, a social worker for said teenagers, in order to make his way out of Springwood (whose population of children he has successfully slaughtered) and into the consciousness of a new town to terrorise.Yes, they waited until the 'final' instalment of the franchise to reveal that before (or whilst) he became a serial child killer, Freddy was a family man with a wife and child; a set-up which simply falls flat, firstly because it was always heavily implied that Freddy had been forced to lurk in boiler rooms due to his social outcast role in the community - so this revelation just comes out of nowhere - and secondly, because although I feel the series had already become somewhat lacklustre before this movie, the characters in Freddy's Dead are so unbelievably dull, which equates to a very anti-climactic 'send-off' for this horror icon.I can't help but feel that the movie would've packed more of a punch if they'd found a way to bring back characters from previous movies in the series to defeat Freddy for a 'final' time.I've always been fairly generous when judging the Elm Street series as even after the movies themselves stopped being 'scary' I've always given props to the creativity of the visuals and ideas (i.e. the idea of the teenagers having dream powers and abilities suited to their personalities), but all of that is just gone in this movie; none of the characters have any interesting traits, powers or abilities and after having watched Freddy's Dead again recently, for the purpose of writing this review, I did enjoy the sequences where the John Doe character keeps finding himself in situations where he is falling through the sky but this is completely overridden by the cringe worthy video game/power glove sequence.Oh, and the movie attempts to explain the origins of Freddy's powers which is not only incredibly lame but unnecessary.(You've probably noticed that I've written the word 'final' in quotation marks; that's because I like to think Freddy's REAL send-off came out just three short years after this movie's release...)