He actually became part of the problem in the later movies (redeemed in New Nightmare). He just slowly turned into...Robert Englund. Freddy became Robert. He wanted a more goofy, one-liner character and he fought for less makeup in each subsequent movie so by this movie it was a trash rubber mask that took about 45 mins to apply, lol. He IS Freddy but he was also part of the problem in the series downfall.
So many things make so much more sense now. I guess I've never watched any of the Elm Street movies after they went off the rails. So I never saw the fully cheese Freddy. This video has enlightened me. I think I saw 1-3, Freddy V Jason and reboot.
You didnt miss much. 4 has its fun but its weird fun...5 sucks...6 is an abomination. I would really encourage you to watch Wes Craven's New Nightmare though which is on Netflix right now. Its basically Scream before he made Scream. Ill have that review out soon.
4 is meh imo, 5 is weird and sucks, Freddy's dead sucks. Sometimes I go back and forth between which I dislike more out of 5 and FD. Most people hate 2, but I love it and think it's the scariest in the franchise. New Nightmare is really good.
Freddy's Dead is the Seed of Chucky of Nightmare on Elm Street. A bad comedy posing as a horror film. When I saw the bit where Freddy pretends to be The Wicked Witch of the West I was like "No. Just....no."
J-Stilt 9 hell no, Dream Child was still pretty bad, but it’s still waaayyy better than Freddy’s Dead. If I had a choice between A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: Dream Child and Freddy’s Dead, I would chose dream child with no hesitation
@@joshuanelson6795 yeah and at least that movie delivered on what it said it was going to do. Jason did go to hell, unlike the false advertising Jason takes Manhattan
Jason goes to hell is the worst in the franchise to me. I actually didn’t mind part 8, besides the look of Jason. People hate it because it’s on a boat most of the movie instead of New York. My only problem was they should have had Jason start killing everyone in New York instead of just hunting the main characters.
Lil Malik nah. I mean, Child’s Play 3 was definitely the weakest of the original Child’s Play trilogy, but idk about it being the worst in the franchise though
Dude, Freddy's Dead is WAY worse on Cody's reaction and in Theaters and also, Seed Of Chucky got a compliment of it's humor that this movie OVERUSED and it turned out TERRIBLE. This RETARDED lady that New Line Cinema let DESTROY my favorite horror icon by turning him into a FRICKIN LOONEY TUNE is the WORSE DIRECTOR EVER. This is worse than the time that Paramount messed up Sonic the hedgehog not once, but twice. It's a good thing that New Nightmare and Freddy Vs Jason made up for that, the reboot kinda ruined the moment by making Freddy;R.Kelly
That reaction in the intro is priceless. The only line I like was when he said "Every town has a Elm Street." but other then that the movie was shit it gave me Nightmares.
Don’t forget the other good line in the movie, “sticks and Stones may break my bones, but nothing will ever kill me”. Two great lines one bad movie lol
He's too polite, besides I think he liked playing Freddy for laughs anyway. He mentioned in an interview that this was like a party movie for Freddy to go out on.
One thing most people fail to realise about this movie is that it's actually the first movie to "re-imagine" Freddy's backstory! Freddy most certainly wasn't a married family man living on elm street, and most certainly not in Nancy's house! Originally, he was a homeless guy who lived (and worked) in the boiler room at the power plant as a squatter.. This should be crystal clear if you see part 1. I choose to see this as a spin-off rather than a true installment, simply because it retcons everything. Oh, and the comedy certainly didn't help. The ONLY redeeming factor is Alice Cooper. He was perfect as Freddy's abusive stepfather. Yes, I'm a huge Alice fan ;)
Stigma I'm a huge Elvis fan myself that's why I couldn't bring myself to bring up his cameo in this video. LOL he was actually the first person I ever saw in concert in 2000
@@CodyLeachYT That’s wild man I saw Alice and Ace frehley last year My first show as well Alice does rule as Freddy’s step father im sure he wears it like a badge of honor 😂
Omg I just realized the homeless part in 1. Towards the end Nancy reaches a room in the boiler room where she finds Tina’s cross but there’s a bunch of random knickknacks and household objects in the background and I think a bed when she first walks towards the room Why would all this random stuff be in the boiler room of Freddy wasn’t homeless. And yes this was in the dream world but in the movie most of the environments in the dream world are real life places in the movie so the boiler room seen in the dream world most likely was the actual boiler room in Springwood
@Route Terror As soon as you see an installment start off with Freddy riding a broom and impersonating Wicked Witch Of The Wets, you know your in for a shitty movie
You nailed it bro. This is easily one of my least favorite horror films ever. It might even be worse than Halloween Resurrection. Great review. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on New Nightmare.
Drumdums Thanks man. I'd need to do a little digging to be sure but this likely IS my least favorite Horror movie ever. I think Resurrection is Citizens Kane compared to this. Though being that I'm a Freddy guy and your a Michael guy, I get 100% why we would both feel so passionately against each film.
Cody Leach I honestly thought this movie was pure, unadulterated utter crap. NOES 2 wasn't all that great, but it was way better than this train wreck piece of shit, if you agree
New Line should make a Nightmare film that is basically a replacement for Freddy's Dead that used Peter Jackson's script that has better quality and is actually good
8:42 Likewise, Cody. As bad as this movie is, the map scene never fails to get at least a chuckle out of me. I think it’s Carlos’ delivery of the line. _“Yeah, well, the map says we’re fucked!”_
Carlos must've been talking about the Franchise. Look at what happened to it, afterwards! Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): Interesting storyline, but scored the lowest, at the Box Office, in terms of Ticket Sales. Freddy Vs. Jason (2003): Totally embarrassing for Freddy Krueger! He does all of this talking, and uses a bunch of one-liners (AGAIN!!!), but, after all that gabbing, he gets HOW MANY VICTIMS?!? One. Just how embarrassing is that?!? They should've named this movie Jason Vs. Freddy, instead of the other way around. That's because Jason mops the floor with Freddy, in the kill count! Nightmare On Elm Street (2010): I actually liked this movie, and here's why: Jackie Earle Haley's version of Freddy Krueger restores the true menace, that the first four Nightmare On Elm Street movies had! The kill count for Mr. Krueger goes back up to 4, and we finally get much more clarification of Freddy Krueger's life, before he became "Immortal". He, according to this movie,was a filthy child molester....then he began, after his "Death", to be able to kill children...and at a rather alarming rate! Ol' Fred's not even averse to going after adults, either, as we see him kill Marge, just before the movie ends!
Don't forget Freddy suddenly out of the blue gaining new abilities he didn't have in the older ones, like being able to somehow erase his victims from history, or affect the real world even when nobody nearby is asleep.
Here's something funny for ya - I remember this is the first rated R movie that I saw in the theater (before I was 18) and I literally remember NOTHING about it. Even your review didn't make any part of that movie familiar. Guess that's a good thing huh? :)
They had plenty of Looney Tunes esque sound effects when Spencer got killed. Freddy's humour should be like The Joker's. Sick but funny where you laugh at it then wonder why you did. Not bad jokes and outdated references like in some of the later films.
I remember buying the Freddy DVD box set. I was somewhat excited because I'd never seen parts 5 and 6. After watching this movie I immediately sold the whole box set.
This actually was not only the first Freddy movie I ever seen, but also the first movie I ever seen in a movie theater, and the first ever movie I ever seen in 3D. And I absolutely loved it. I never knew that Freddy movie was supposed to be anything else BUT this kind of movie. I remember watching it back to back with the live action Ninja Turtles movie and it was sort of the same level of entertainment. Then I worked my way back through the franchise, watching parts 5, 3, 2 and 1 in reverse order (part 4 I saw last) and I was actually surprised that the prequels to this comedy once were serious horror movies :D Looking from perspective, it's crap, but I will always feel nostalgic about it for all these reasons.
I actually really enjoyed Freddy's dead but i do understand from the stand point of it is so far from what Nightmare on elm street was with the original and dream warriors and went the hokey route but it is campy fun
The original script was awesome...Alice's son teamed up with the Dream Warriors. Wish they'd done that. That would have been completely awesome. The scene where Freddy's daughter discovered his secret was legit scary, I thought. That was probably the one part of the movie that I thought was well done.
i rented this movie from a video shop when i was about 9 years old,this was back in the late 90's i love the fact the ending was in 3D but i didn't love the fact the video shop rented it to me without 3D glasses.
There was one other part I thought was funny when the kids go into the classroom and the teacher goes “Hello and welcome to Freddy 101. 1883:Freddy sailed the sea!” Just the delivery on those lines made it funny for me.
This was one of two of the only movies that I actually got up out of my seat and stormed out of the theater. I am still pissed that my friends and I paid money for a ticket.
Peter Jackson's script would've been awesome! This piece of shit makes Jason X look like Pulp Fiction. Both movies were released by New Line. Lol. Seed of Chucky was even better than this. I need a drink!
A handful of good elements: - Freddy's youth and backstory - Lisa Zane and Yaphet Kotto - The final showdown has a few good moments even if the pipebomb death is shit. Other than that... Yeah.
I’d have to say that the 2010 remake is worse just because Robert England isn’t in it but Freddy’s Dead is very very bad and literally gives me a headache too.
The crazy thing is the bitch who directed it had been around for so long and she hadn’t picked up anything to help her make a film better than part 2. The Jackson draft had kids making themselves faint, and then one falls into a coma and Freddy feeds off his soul when he’s in some weird in-between state that isn’t ‘true’ sleep because it was self-induced. It was a cool idea, it’s a shame that Bob Shaye passed it up.
They need to give Freddy the Halloween treatment. Give us a direct sequel and cut out the entire timeline after Dream Warriors. Bring back Patricia Arquett with a story of Freddy returning to kill off the children of the surviving dream warriors. Bring Neil Gordon back into the story. Hell, bring Jesse back into the story and try to fix his story line. Anything to give us one more Nightmare with Robert England truly bringing everything he has to give us a brutal final battle against what’s left of the remaining Elm Street legacy.
You gotta feel bad for poor Cody. He talked about how he would never have to experience this movie again... and he’s had to experience it multiple times since. Whether it be commentaries, or ranking videos, or Q&A questions, he might not ever escape this movie which is sad
Amanda Owens Mainly in the final climax. Also from what I heard, the director got sick during the later quarters of production and the film the rest of the movie behind her back.
I totally agree! The whole schmear of him going from Horror Movie Icon, to an absolute Cornball Clown, actually started way back in Nightmare On Elm Street 4:The Dream Master. Freddy was still able to come across as absolutely savage, yeah...but there was a problem. He started talking more and more, and he began explaining things a bit too much. Then came Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. A couple of the kills were very savage, those two kills being Dan's Death, and Greta's Death....but, if you noticed, Freddy just couldn't resist the urge to add too much info & one-liners to each kill. Then, there's Mark Gray's Death. Freddy turned Mark into a paper drawing, after having sliced out a good-sized portion of his right side, and proceeded to hack and claw "Mark" to pieces. Also:The multi-colored "Blood" was shown to have poured out of his "Body" from head to feet. How is that even possible, if there are no cuts in the feet, or, at the very least, in the lower parts of the legs? A wound like what he had in his side would not have bled out below the surface of the lowest part of the cut on Mark's right side! Clearly, whoever put that "Kill" in the movie wasn't thinking clearly, as it concerns Human Anatomy! This is also the "Kill", where Freddy's transition from terrifying killer to cornball clown, is complete. And it's pathetic!
They should've just made Freddy's Dead a prequel to the original film and had Freddy in human form like they did in the few scenes we get of him being human..strangling his wife in the backyard etc.
I like freddy's dead for expanding lore and even if some parts are trash there's some real good stuff and ideas in the movie that were just not executed very well, if anything, I would argue that 4 and 5 are marginally worse by a long shot. At least this movie had a script lol.
Great review broski. Yeah, I, I agree. Hands down the worst one in the franchise. But I mean they did make Jason have an imaginary sister out of no where lol so why not have Kruger have a daughter out of no where haha.
What the hell, they could have brought some of the dream warriors back??!! And just when I thought I couldn't despise this movie any more. Also great review, everything you said was on point :D
This was always where this franchise was headed imo. People liked Freddy's one-liners so they kept on amping it up until he's a complete joke. I have fun with these movies but I don't get how Freddy could be people's favorite character. The movies got so ridiculously cheesy and cringey. Sad cuz the first is excellent.
I'm the biggest Elm Street mark. They had an incredible foundation. I loved the idea of going back in time and seeing him evolve in Freddy Kruger. But they took it and wiped their asses with it!
In all fairness halloween resurrection had some decent kills and I'd say the first 10-25 mins of the film where the best parts where he cases his sister down at the mental hospital i think the whole movie should've took place in there making this a psychological horror slasher and make this similar to halloween 2 i bet you this movie would've been better than what was delivered
Peter Jackson's idea sounded cool but would only be the beginning of the movie what happens after he gets that first kill, it just becomes routine? and bringing back the dream warriors sounds great but they couldn't because they were killed off.
+THIRTYSIXBLACK Sounds like denial to me. It has to be hard to admit that something that you dumped months of work into is one of the worst pieces of trash to exist in cinema.
Cody Leach you've never seen the never sleep again documentary? Hmm I'm starting to question your love for Freddy. I've easily watched it 5 times (it's 4 hours long).
Wes Craven and Michael De Luca wrote the screenplay. I don’t understand why they made it suck so bad. I mean Freddy was Wes’ baby. Kevin Yager wasn’t involved in Freddy’s makeup so that explains why Freddy looks like garbage.
I thought the acting was actually decent and better than 4 and 5 and the kills were at least creative in some respects and the characters did have certain issues brought back up in the dreams. I cannot defend anything else really though Seeing multiple kinds of gloves was cool and the backstory while it doesn't fit for me is the best part of this movie especially that guy who plays teenage Fred. Oh yeah Alice Cooper is in this I'm seeing him again soon. Last thing the concept of all the kids being previously killed and turning the town into his own messed up dream land is a cool idea horribly realized.
I absolutely hate it to, the last time I watched it I tried to look for anything I thought was salvageable. I feel the same way but I can't say all aspect of it didn't work either. I put all the blame on Rachel. I hate this movie the absolute most but I was able to dig out anything I could enjoy about it the second time I watched it. Trust me at some point in the movie all I could say is NO no NO no NOOO, I wanted to throw a rock at my TV. I will never watch this movie again. It is one of the worst movies I put myself through. I only watched it again because many people said it wasn't that bad on a Freddy fan page I was a part of. Last time I watched 4-6 I looked at what specifically I could enjoy from the heap. I came out enjoying 5 more than 4 and seeing the potential of FD and Imagined what a fan edit of 4-6 and the remake would look like. That put me through these installments again. This is the bottom the barrel but I did notice aspects that were good or had the potential to be. Needle in a haystack mentality.
I actually liked the kills in this one cause pretty much from the second movie on the franchise was just ridiculous anyway so the campy weird kills were funny. Then again I was stoned last time I watched it😂
I’d appreciate t if you didn’t tell people about this movie. It’s REALLY embarrassing
Shut up BITCH! You're dead!
Freddy why did you create this? Just why?
@@nyuszicsib lmfao yes!!
no Freddy this was one of the funniest of your movies I loved it
@@the_criminal_mastermind no you didnt
I feel like even when the Freddy films are bad Robert brings it 100%
Because Robert IS Freddy and can’t be recast
He actually became part of the problem in the later movies (redeemed in New Nightmare). He just slowly turned into...Robert Englund. Freddy became Robert.
He wanted a more goofy, one-liner character and he fought for less makeup in each subsequent movie so by this movie it was a trash rubber mask that took about 45 mins to apply, lol.
He IS Freddy but he was also part of the problem in the series downfall.
So many things make so much more sense now. I guess I've never watched any of the Elm Street movies after they went off the rails. So I never saw the fully cheese Freddy. This video has enlightened me.
I think I saw 1-3, Freddy V Jason and reboot.
You didnt miss much. 4 has its fun but its weird fun...5 sucks...6 is an abomination. I would really encourage you to watch Wes Craven's New Nightmare though which is on Netflix right now. Its basically Scream before he made Scream. Ill have that review out soon.
4 is meh imo, 5 is weird and sucks, Freddy's dead sucks. Sometimes I go back and forth between which I dislike more out of 5 and FD. Most people hate 2, but I love it and think it's the scariest in the franchise. New Nightmare is really good.
Freddy's Dead is the Seed of Chucky of Nightmare on Elm Street. A bad comedy posing as a horror film. When I saw the bit where Freddy pretends to be The Wicked Witch of the West I was like "No. Just....no."
I was waiting for you to rank the films in this franchise.
J-Stilt 9 hell no, Dream Child was still pretty bad, but it’s still waaayyy better than Freddy’s Dead. If I had a choice between A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: Dream Child and Freddy’s Dead, I would chose dream child with no hesitation
Now you know how Jason fans feel when you defend Jason goes to hell
Touche
Even Jason Goes to Hell isn't as insulting as Freddy's Dead. At least Jason is treated like a legitimate threat in that film.
@@joshuanelson6795 yeah and at least that movie delivered on what it said it was going to do. Jason did go to hell, unlike the false advertising Jason takes Manhattan
Well I’m a big Jason fan and I love Jason goes to hell. I have so much fun with that movie 😂
Jason goes to hell is the worst in the franchise to me. I actually didn’t mind part 8, besides the look of Jason. People hate it because it’s on a boat most of the movie instead of New York. My only problem was they should have had Jason start killing everyone in New York instead of just hunting the main characters.
Freddy's Dead. The Seed of Chucky of the Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Premise of it was basically The Seed of Freddy
Yeah. The sad part is that even Seed Of Chucky was still a million times better than Freddy’s Dead, and Seed Of Chucky was unwatchable asf
Lil Malik nah. I mean, Child’s Play 3 was definitely the weakest of the original Child’s Play trilogy, but idk about it being the worst in the franchise though
Dude, Freddy's Dead is WAY worse on Cody's reaction and in Theaters and also, Seed Of Chucky got a compliment of it's humor that this movie OVERUSED and it turned out TERRIBLE. This RETARDED lady that New Line Cinema let DESTROY my favorite horror icon by turning him into a FRICKIN LOONEY TUNE is the WORSE DIRECTOR EVER. This is worse than the time that Paramount messed up Sonic the hedgehog not once, but twice. It's a good thing that New Nightmare and Freddy Vs Jason made up for that, the reboot kinda ruined the moment by making Freddy;R.Kelly
@@DJ_Philly 😁😁😂 Making Freddy into R. Kelly!
This is one of the funniest reviews I've ever seen.
Awesome
Really? I straight faced the entire thing. Good review tho.
It was
@@jasandrea7034 Really? Str8 faced the entire time? Can I buy some Xanax from you please?
@@bluu_ice6554 I pop percs I don't fw xans.
Freddy’s Dead: The Live Action Looney Tunes Episode
I’m not very proud of it
The sad thing is... if you remove all of the curse words, freddy’s dead could probably pass off as a looney tunes live action movie thing
SlasherXs pretty much lol
@@slasherxs8336 besides Carlos dying
Freddy should have said, "what's up doc?" in this film
Because there's a character called Doc in this film!
That reaction in the intro is priceless. The only line I like was when he said "Every town has a Elm Street." but other then that the movie was shit it gave me Nightmares.
LUIS lol That's pretty much my face the entire time I'm watching the movie.
LUIS HOW
Don’t forget the other good line in the movie, “sticks and Stones may break my bones, but nothing will ever kill me”. Two great lines one bad movie lol
ARE U serious LUIS
The best part of Freddy’s Dead is the series montage during the credits. “Why, why, why, why was I born...born in this world?”
Shockingly, the director directed a few decent episodes of Doctor Who.
Wow, Peter Jackson's draft sounded amazing
Robert Englund should have demanded a better script.
LOLOLOOL I AGREE wait i like acting... I HATE YOU
He's too polite, besides I think he liked playing Freddy for laughs anyway. He mentioned in an interview that this was like a party movie for Freddy to go out on.
Robert Englund hates this film
@@mr.checkyourself4672 Would't surprise me. Did he say this in an interview?
@@JL13675 Yes he said this multiple times this his least favorite in the franchise you can search it up.
One thing most people fail to realise about this movie is that it's actually the first movie to "re-imagine" Freddy's backstory! Freddy most certainly wasn't a married family man living on elm street, and most certainly not in Nancy's house! Originally, he was a homeless guy who lived (and worked) in the boiler room at the power plant as a squatter.. This should be crystal clear if you see part 1.
I choose to see this as a spin-off rather than a true installment, simply because it retcons everything. Oh, and the comedy certainly didn't help.
The ONLY redeeming factor is Alice Cooper. He was perfect as Freddy's abusive stepfather. Yes, I'm a huge Alice fan ;)
Stigma I'm a huge Elvis fan myself that's why I couldn't bring myself to bring up his cameo in this video. LOL he was actually the first person I ever saw in concert in 2000
@@CodyLeachYT , you saw Elvis in concert in 2000? Amazing!
@@CodyLeachYT isn’t Elvis dead?
@@CodyLeachYT That’s wild man I saw Alice and Ace frehley last year
My first show as well
Alice does rule as Freddy’s step father im sure he wears it like a badge of honor 😂
Omg I just realized the homeless part in 1. Towards the end Nancy reaches a room in the boiler room where she finds Tina’s cross but there’s a bunch of random knickknacks and household objects in the background and I think a bed when she first walks towards the room
Why would all this random stuff be in the boiler room of Freddy wasn’t homeless. And yes this was in the dream world but in the movie most of the environments in the dream world are real life places in the movie so the boiler room seen in the dream world most likely was the actual boiler room in Springwood
“I’ll get you my pretty! And your little soul too, HAAAA HAHAHAHA!”
Your ‘WTF was that’ face afterwards was priceless 😆
@Route Terror As soon as you see an installment start off with Freddy riding a broom and impersonating Wicked Witch Of The Wets, you know your in for a shitty movie
You nailed it bro. This is easily one of my least favorite horror films ever. It might even be worse than Halloween Resurrection. Great review. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on New Nightmare.
Drumdums Thanks man. I'd need to do a little digging to be sure but this likely IS my least favorite Horror movie ever. I think Resurrection is Citizens Kane compared to this. Though being that I'm a Freddy guy and your a Michael guy, I get 100% why we would both feel so passionately against each film.
Cody Leach I honestly thought this movie was pure, unadulterated utter crap. NOES 2 wasn't all that great, but it was way better than this train wreck piece of shit, if you agree
Nothing can be worse than Seed of Chucky
yeah i didn’t find it that Bad it’s not as bad as you say it was part five nothing can’t beat that also Freddy’s revenge
Drumdums id rather eat out a corpse than watch that movie again lol
New Line should make a Nightmare film that is basically a replacement for Freddy's Dead that used Peter Jackson's script that has better quality and is actually good
That's a good idea
8:42 Likewise, Cody. As bad as this movie is, the map scene never fails to get at least a chuckle out of me. I think it’s Carlos’ delivery of the line.
_“Yeah, well, the map says we’re fucked!”_
Carlos must've been talking about the Franchise. Look at what happened to it, afterwards!
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): Interesting storyline, but scored the lowest, at the Box Office, in terms of Ticket Sales.
Freddy Vs. Jason (2003): Totally embarrassing for Freddy Krueger! He does all of this talking, and uses a bunch of one-liners (AGAIN!!!), but, after all that gabbing, he gets HOW MANY VICTIMS?!?
One.
Just how embarrassing is that?!?
They should've named this movie Jason Vs. Freddy, instead of the other way around. That's because Jason mops the floor with Freddy, in the kill count!
Nightmare On Elm Street (2010):
I actually liked this movie, and here's why: Jackie Earle Haley's version of Freddy Krueger restores the true menace, that the first four Nightmare On Elm Street movies had! The kill count for Mr. Krueger goes back up to 4, and we finally get much more clarification of Freddy Krueger's life, before he became "Immortal". He, according to this movie,was a filthy child molester....then he began, after his "Death", to be able to kill children...and at a rather alarming rate! Ol' Fred's not even averse to going after adults, either, as we see him kill Marge, just before the movie ends!
I couldn't have said it better myself, Cody your channel is awesome
Don't forget Freddy suddenly out of the blue gaining new abilities he didn't have in the older ones, like being able to somehow erase his victims from history, or affect the real world even when nobody nearby is asleep.
I like to watch this movie just to laugh my ass off. It's a pathetic attempt to end a series that started out fantastic.
Yeah I cant enjoy it...not even in a so bad its good manner.
@@CodyLeachYT my favorites are 1 2 3 4 and new nightmare.
This was uploaded 4 years ago and I still come here so much just for the laugh haha love this review man 😂💀
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The movie is so bad that even the good stuff seems bad
Robert Englund has stated that his favorite kill in any of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise, is Carlos' death in this film.
Definitely the worst Freddy movie. The only thing I really liked about it was the little montage at the very end during the credits lol
Same here bro.
And some people disagree for some reason 😔
Calling this movie shit is an insult to shit. Freddy's make up went to look like someone burned to somebody that stayed in the tanning bed too long.
Kevin Riley lol You're right I may have dragged shit under the bus with that one.
Here's something funny for ya - I remember this is the first rated R movie that I saw in the theater (before I was 18) and I literally remember NOTHING about it. Even your review didn't make any part of that movie familiar. Guess that's a good thing huh? :)
Kris Dudoich That's a very good thing...the less you remember about this one the better.
I would rather watch the fucking Smurf movies than this shit, or id rather get smacked in the balls with a shovel, or my finger nails torn out 😣
i loved carlos death but other than that????i don’t know
this movie should be Looney tunes
David Cottone As far as I'm concerned...it is!
That is offensive to looney tunes
They had plenty of Looney Tunes esque sound effects when Spencer got killed. Freddy's humour should be like The Joker's. Sick but funny where you laugh at it then wonder why you did. Not bad jokes and outdated references like in some of the later films.
I remember buying the Freddy DVD box set. I was somewhat excited because I'd never seen parts 5 and 6.
After watching this movie I immediately sold the whole box set.
This actually was not only the first Freddy movie I ever seen, but also the first movie I ever seen in a movie theater, and the first ever movie I ever seen in 3D. And I absolutely loved it. I never knew that Freddy movie was supposed to be anything else BUT this kind of movie. I remember watching it back to back with the live action Ninja Turtles movie and it was sort of the same level of entertainment. Then I worked my way back through the franchise, watching parts 5, 3, 2 and 1 in reverse order (part 4 I saw last) and I was actually surprised that the prequels to this comedy once were serious horror movies :D
Looking from perspective, it's crap, but I will always feel nostalgic about it for all these reasons.
Same this was the first freddy movie I seen too
Dang man sounds like you certainly did “seen” it.
He is way to hard on it! It’s not good. But neither was 5 or 2! I prefer it to both of those
I actually really enjoyed Freddy's dead but i do understand from the stand point of it is so far from what Nightmare on elm street was with the original and dream warriors and went the hokey route but it is campy fun
I liked it when it came out... but I was also like 9yrs old 😂
As I've grown, I've learned from my mistake. 😔
This is straight up one of my favorite movies of all time.
The original script was awesome...Alice's son teamed up with the Dream Warriors. Wish they'd done that. That would have been completely awesome. The scene where Freddy's daughter discovered his secret was legit scary, I thought. That was probably the one part of the movie that I thought was well done.
i rented this movie from a video shop when i was about 9 years old,this was back in the late 90's i love the fact the ending was in 3D but i didn't love the fact the video shop rented it to me without 3D glasses.
I did some of the special fx for this film, please forgive me for working on this pile haha!!
Great review pal! Best thing about this movie is the opening intro with the goo goo dolls I'm awake now song.
Francis Albert Thanks man. Glad you could find one good thing about this pile.
@@CodyLeachYT of shit
“Nice hearing from ya, Carlos...”
I have to admit, I laughed.
I actually liked that kill. But only that one.
That pulp fiction bit was great lol... u sounded just like Danny McBride.
+Dylan Thomas You aren't the first one to tell me that funny enough lol
'' They saved the best for the last''
This describes this movie in a brilliant way. You don' t know whether laugh or cry for these '' jokes''.
That reminds me of The Final Destination.
Is Halloween the only one of the big horror icons that doesn’t have a 3D movie?
Chucky
There was one other part I thought was funny when the kids go into the classroom and the teacher goes
“Hello and welcome to Freddy 101. 1883:Freddy sailed the sea!” Just the delivery on those lines made it funny for me.
In the poster of this movie it says they saved the best for last... WHAT DO YOU MEAN...
This was one of two of the only movies that I actually got up out of my seat and stormed out of the theater. I am still pissed that my friends and I paid money for a ticket.
I read an interview with Robert Englund where they asked what he thought about this movie. He said, "Great poster!"
My Nightmare On Elm Street Ranking Is:
Freddy's Dead
Dream Child
New Nightmare
Dream Master
Freddy's Revenge
Nightmare On Elm Street
Dream Warriors
💯...worst to best, I'm assuming
This is easily my favorite review you have ever done
Peter Jackson's script would've been awesome! This piece of shit makes Jason X look like Pulp Fiction. Both movies were released by New Line. Lol. Seed of Chucky was even better than this. I need a drink!
+Torie Buchanan Agreed. As much as I despise Seed its Godfather compared to this pile.
A handful of good elements:
- Freddy's youth and backstory
- Lisa Zane and Yaphet Kotto
- The final showdown has a few good moments even if the pipebomb death is shit.
Other than that... Yeah.
I’d have to say that the 2010 remake is worse just because Robert England isn’t in it but Freddy’s Dead is very very bad and literally gives me a headache too.
True
The crazy thing is the bitch who directed it had been around for so long and she hadn’t picked up anything to help her make a film better than part 2. The Jackson draft had kids making themselves faint, and then one falls into a coma and Freddy feeds off his soul when he’s in some weird in-between state that isn’t ‘true’ sleep because it was self-induced. It was a cool idea, it’s a shame that Bob Shaye passed it up.
I feel it is very underrated just fun like the room or troll 2 4 and 5 are worse and the remake
What’s funnier, Saw 3D the abomination or Freddy’s dead the final nightmare for Cody
As a child of less than 10 years old, comedic Freddy still scared the daylights out of me watching in theaters.
Are you going to do New Nightmare,Freddy vs Jasos and the remake they did a few years back. And I agree FUCK THIS MOVIE!
+Wardor 1992 Sure am. Probably gonna record all three some time this weekend to try and get them all out by the end of June.
Cody Leach Sweet looking forward to see them!
@@CodyLeachYT Are you going to do New Nightmare commentary
Literally just finished watching this movie...yeah it sucked, Peter Jackson’s version would’ve been so much better
I understand I am big alice Cooper fan also
I like this movie because of the funniest part is when carlos head explodes
So... Rachel Talalay is the Don Mancini of Nightmare on Elm Street movies? Makes sense.
GI Jack
Don Mancini has written every Chucky movie, genius.
Don Mancini created Chucky. Yes, Bride and Seed were bad movies but at least he didn’t screw with someone else’s character.
Freddy Dead 3D....lol.
They need to give Freddy the Halloween treatment. Give us a direct sequel and cut out the entire timeline after Dream Warriors. Bring back Patricia Arquett with a story of Freddy returning to kill off the children of the surviving dream warriors. Bring Neil Gordon back into the story. Hell, bring Jesse back into the story and try to fix his story line. Anything to give us one more Nightmare with Robert England truly bringing everything he has to give us a brutal final battle against what’s left of the remaining Elm Street legacy.
I feel your pain. It was so cheesy. lol
You gotta feel bad for poor Cody. He talked about how he would never have to experience this movie again... and he’s had to experience it multiple times since. Whether it be commentaries, or ranking videos, or Q&A questions, he might not ever escape this movie which is sad
Lol. This is a guilt pleasure for me😂
Daddy Coconut. No it’s just bad
@@MichaelMyers66793 it’s HILARIOUS, so bad it’s good I love it 😂
@@uhuhuh1966 yeah we’ll go and get your brain checked
@@MichaelMyers66793 lol it’s not that serious chill out
@@uhuhuh1966 no this movie is an insult to humanity
"Freddy's Dead" was crummy but I'd rather watch it than watch the 2010 remake.
Is this the 3D one?
Cláudia Canais Yep it's that one!
Pretty much
Amanda Owens
Mainly in the final climax. Also from what I heard, the director got sick during the later quarters of production and the film the rest of the movie behind her back.
I’m just here for the great review & the Cody leach Gangsta image LOL 10:20.
Hilarious review Cody, I haven't laughed so hard & so much in ages.
Utter garbage from start to finish, Robert just took the paycheck & phoned it in.
I totally agree! The whole schmear of him going from Horror Movie Icon, to an absolute
Cornball Clown, actually started way back in Nightmare On Elm Street 4:The Dream Master. Freddy was still able to come across as absolutely savage, yeah...but there was a problem. He started talking more and more, and he began explaining things a bit too much.
Then came Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. A couple of the kills were very savage, those two kills being Dan's Death, and Greta's Death....but, if you noticed, Freddy just couldn't resist the urge to add too much info & one-liners to each kill.
Then, there's Mark Gray's Death.
Freddy turned Mark into a paper drawing, after having sliced out a good-sized portion of his right side, and proceeded to hack and claw "Mark" to pieces. Also:The multi-colored "Blood" was shown to have poured out of his "Body" from head to feet. How is that even possible, if there are no cuts in the feet, or, at the very least, in the lower parts of the legs? A wound like what he had in his side would not have bled out below the surface of the lowest part of the cut on Mark's right side! Clearly, whoever put that "Kill" in the movie wasn't thinking clearly, as it concerns Human Anatomy!
This is also the "Kill", where Freddy's transition from terrifying killer to cornball clown, is complete.
And it's pathetic!
@@ronaldshank7589 Best of all he kills nobody in the last act of Freddys Dead.
I have the script for Dream Dimension (Nightmare 6). The idea before the film.
I love the backstory flashbacks. What's that like 2-3 minutes at the most?
They should've just made Freddy's Dead a prequel to the original film and had Freddy in human form like they did in the few scenes we get of him being human..strangling his wife in the backyard etc.
I like freddy's dead for expanding lore and even if some parts are trash there's some real good stuff and ideas in the movie that were just not executed very well, if anything, I would argue that 4 and 5 are marginally worse by a long shot. At least this movie had a script lol.
Great review broski. Yeah, I, I agree. Hands down the worst one in the franchise. But I mean they did make Jason have an imaginary sister out of no where lol so why not have Kruger have a daughter out of no where haha.
Jonathan Haydon Freddy having a kid could have been an interesting story but this movie couldn't have executed that story worse.
What the hell, they could have brought some of the dream warriors back??!! And just when I thought I couldn't despise this movie any more. Also great review, everything you said was on point :D
Thank you. Yeah this movie is an abomination
didn't all the dream warriors die
@Yamata - Pretty much
I'm sorry what's wrong with the film again?
It’s basically a live action Looney Toons short
Hey Cody have u ever seen Never Sleep Again? The documentary chronicling all of the Nightmare films?
+Dylan Thomas Sure did. I actually watched each segment before reviewing each movie.
Cody Leach right on man. That kind of research is what makes ur reviews dope. Great Graphics! Lololol
+Dylan Thomas Thanks a lot man!
This was always where this franchise was headed imo. People liked Freddy's one-liners so they kept on amping it up until he's a complete joke.
I have fun with these movies but I don't get how Freddy could be people's favorite character. The movies got so ridiculously cheesy and cringey.
Sad cuz the first is excellent.
Hahaha
This rant was legendary
I'm the biggest Elm Street mark. They had an incredible foundation. I loved the idea of going back in time and seeing him evolve in Freddy Kruger. But they took it and wiped their asses with it!
In all fairness halloween resurrection had some decent kills and I'd say the first 10-25 mins of the film where the best parts where he cases his sister down at the mental hospital i think the whole movie should've took place in there making this a psychological horror slasher and make this similar to halloween 2 i bet you this movie would've been better than what was delivered
LoL! Damn, this felt like an AVGN episode for real, lol!
you forgot alice Cooper cameo
David Cottone I didn't forget it I just left it at "tons of weird cameos". I'm a huge Alice fan so I chose to leave him off this tongue lashing. lol
+Cody Leach the Alice death was funny
"Freddy. Freddy. You ready for it boy? You've been a waste since the day I took you in. Now it's time to take your medicine."
Peter Jackson's idea sounded cool but would only be the beginning of the movie what happens after he gets that first kill, it just becomes routine? and bringing back the dream warriors sounds great but they couldn't because they were killed off.
Worst part is, if you watch the Never Sleep Again documentary, Rachel Talalay is actually quite proud of this garbage.
+THIRTYSIXBLACK Sounds like denial to me. It has to be hard to admit that something that you dumped months of work into is one of the worst pieces of trash to exist in cinema.
Cody Leach you've never seen the never sleep again documentary? Hmm I'm starting to question your love for Freddy. I've easily watched it 5 times (it's 4 hours long).
She's one of those "The thing I made was good just because I made it" types.
Xehanort10 Typical Narcissistic Hollywood behavior if you ask me.
I liked this movie
3:02 is when I see that silent house is going to be on ifc until July of next year
This film makes Dream Child look like a good Freddy movie even though it’s not
Lester Thornbury would take Freddie in this movie ...666
This movie isn't that bad. Plus his daughter is 🔥
At least Rachel Talalay went on to do some great directing in Doctor Who
The chick did look really cute with pigtails.
This movie is even worse than Halloween 5,seed of chucky,Jason takes Manhattan,and next generation: Texas chainsaw massacre
i bet your wife had to keep all of your knifes, pills, glass and the scissors away from you
Totally agree. This movie is so horrible, it feels like a humangas insult to both Nightmare on Elm Street and Looney Tunes!😬
You are the shit brother...Finally someone who can review a movie!
Thanks man
Wes Craven and Michael De Luca wrote the screenplay. I don’t understand why they made it suck so bad. I mean Freddy was Wes’ baby. Kevin Yager wasn’t involved in Freddy’s makeup so that explains why Freddy looks like garbage.
Wes Craven didn't write the screenplay to Freddy's Dead. He had NOTHING to do with this piece of dogshit.
You’re the best reviewer on UA-cam
Thank you
The CGI bullshit in this foul ass move makes "Jaws Revenge" and Jaws 3D a masterpiece xD
I thought the acting was actually decent and better than 4 and 5 and the kills were at least creative in some respects and the characters did have certain issues brought back up in the dreams. I cannot defend anything else really though Seeing multiple kinds of gloves was cool and the backstory while it doesn't fit for me is the best part of this movie especially that guy who plays teenage Fred. Oh yeah Alice Cooper is in this I'm seeing him again soon. Last thing the concept of all the kids being previously killed and turning the town into his own messed up dream land is a cool idea horribly realized.
+ProJatior I can't appreciate anything about this one...its horrendous to me
I absolutely hate it to, the last time I watched it I tried to look for anything I thought was salvageable. I feel the same way but I can't say all aspect of it didn't work either. I put all the blame on Rachel. I hate this movie the absolute most but I was able to dig out anything I could enjoy about it the second time I watched it. Trust me at some point in the movie all I could say is NO no NO no NOOO, I wanted to throw a rock at my TV. I will never watch this movie again. It is one of the worst movies I put myself through. I only watched it again because many people said it wasn't that bad on a Freddy fan page I was a part of.
Last time I watched 4-6 I looked at what specifically I could enjoy from the heap. I came out enjoying 5 more than 4 and seeing the potential of FD and Imagined what a fan edit of 4-6 and the remake would look like. That put me through these installments again. This is the bottom the barrel but I did notice aspects that were good or had the potential to be. Needle in a haystack mentality.
I agree. I like acting
10:00 Wonder if Cody'd "play a game" with Jigsaw rather than watch Freddy's Dead again
I actually liked the kills in this one cause pretty much from the second movie on the franchise was just ridiculous anyway so the campy weird kills were funny. Then again I was stoned last time I watched it😂
As a kid of the 80s & 90s I’m so glad I stopped watching the Nightmare on Elm Street after part 3