Review – A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy’s Dead, The Final Nightmare

Wow, does this film have enough titles? At least it more or less makes good on its promise; except for the non-teen-oriented Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, this was in fact the last Freddy Krueger movie. [Except then he shows up again in … oh, never mind.] For anyone who watched this on video and didn’t quite get what all the shenanigans with the 3-D glasses were about, that was the cue for theater audiences to put their own 3-D glasses on in order to fully appreciate “Freddy Vision.” Gimmicks aside, the final chapter offers little besides yet another horrible under-casting for Yaphet Kotto, a lot of grim child and pet murder, and the usual parade of teenagers slaughtered more-or-less (stress on the less) creatively in their dreams. RIP indeed, with emphasis on the R (as in give us a rest). Finally, the DVD version (or at least the one that comes with the Elm Street box set) includes the 3-D crap and the glasses to view it with. See if desperate