1991
Rachel Talalay
After virtually wiping out the youth
population of Springwood, evil dream specter, Freddy Kruger (Robert
Englund), chases an amnesiac teen (Shon Greenblatt) out of town for
an unknown purpose. The kid ends up at a shelter where he falls under
the care of Maggie (Lisa Zane). Maggie and John Doe both are plagued
by nightmares, so she decides to take them both to Springwood in
hopes of shedding some light on their issues. Little does she know
her van has some stowaways and even worse, Freddy is waiting for them
to uncover the truth.
This is the film that throws out all
pretensions of being a horror film and instead becomes a slapstick
comedy with a little bit of gore. As long as your willing to accept
that, it's actually a reasonably amusing film. If you're looking for
elements that made the earlier entries work to greater and lesser
extents, you're going to be sorely disappointed. Freddy comes across
as a murderous Bugs Bunny, with numerous goofy sight gags including the
infamous Power Glove sequence. The central mystery concerns the identity of Freddy's offspring and if falls pretty flat. Even worse, it gives
a reason for him to have become a killer in the first place which
total robs him of the last bit of mystery he had.
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