 
A troubled teen with
amnesia named John Doe (Shon Greenblat)
is constantly having nightmares while
running away from the Springwood area as
he claims to be the only teen survivor
from Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund)
there when he throws himself into a
special care centre.
He meets up with a counsellor there with
amnesia as well named Maggie Burroughs
(Lisa Zane) as she tries to help him out.
She also needs to know who her father was
as she was taken away from him as a
child.
They drive down to Springwood as some
teens at the centre steal a ride too but
they realise that the town is almost
deserted aand the only people who roam
the area are eccentric adults.
They reside at a house for a while as
they end up being lost for a bit only to
discover that it's the Thompson's old
house where Freddy resides in to kill
teens in their dreams.
Freddy kills a couple of them off when
they fall asleep but however he manages
to keep John alive as he thinks Freddy
may possibly be his father.
However Freddy has deadly news for him as
he tells him that Maggie is her daughter
and yused her to draw him into creating
massacre's in other kids' dreams around
the world.
This draws Maggie to remembering her
childhood life and must put a stop to her
father's evil deeds even if it means to
pulling him into reality to do so and
killing him for good as she has the power
to do so.
I watched this for
the first time the same time
Jason Goes to Hell was briefly
in theatre's as that one beared no
relationship to the Friday series and was
a movie for the fans. Well this one was
just a fan movie itself and doesn't
follow after what happened in the recent Nightmare
sequel.
This film was fairly well done with a
great performance by the cast, well
directed and good effects along with nice
settings too but the story isn't the same
and it is too comedic as well.
The acting is in
good shape like in the rest of the films.
Robert Englund is funnier than
ever as Freddy Krueger yet he can show
pure evil to his character.
Lisa Zane was wonderful playing
his daughter in the film and performs
with such pizzaz to her role.
Lezlie Deane played an excellent
tough rebellious tomboy like teen in the
film and knew how to pull off her role.
Shon Greenblat knew how to make
his role realistic as a basket case with
amnesia and does a powerful job at it.
Breckin Meyer stood out very
well playing a potheaded ignorant teen
that loves to play video games as his
role fit the story very well.
Shon Greenblat did a much better
job in Alien but still he can bring alot
into this film too.
Roseanne's cameo was over the
top hilarious in her role as an eccentric
mother who lost her kids to Freddy in
Springwood and her then husband Tom
Arnold did well with his aggressions
as her film husband in the film too.
Johnny Depp was funny in his
cameo asa guy on TV about the dangers of
drugs it was nice to see him return to
this film as the first one was what
started his career.
My favourite cameo was my favourite
musician shock rocker Alice Cooper
stood out as Freddy's alcoholic abusive
father and can play a great psychotic one
too. Too bad he was uncredited.
An ear is sliced
off.
A head explodes
Blood pours out of a broken TV
A teen is stabbed by a tray of spikes
Freddy cuts his fingers off
Freddy explodes
Rachel Talalay
seems to direct this film with superb
energy with her actors but however alot
of the times the direction is a little
too comedic. However, she's a good
director regardless and it's nice to see
a woman handling a horror film.
She directs the beginning of the film
well with actor Shon Greenblat
experiencing his worst nightmares by
falling out of a plane or hit by a bus as
there's nice shots there. She coaches
Robert Englund well too during these
moments as he is both menacing and
comedic.
We see a nice dialogue sequence between Greenblat
and Lisa Zane showing good
intense aggression.
We see a hokey setting of a canrival
which is the setting in Springwood
fuilled with adults as it looks zany
especially when she directs Roseanne
and Tom Arnold approching the
young supporting cast. It's very
memorable regardless.
We get a perfect reaction from supporting
actor Ricky Dean Logan when he
is dreaming in the back of the van trying
to open up a map but it keeps unfolding
and after he reads the writing on it
saying "You're F**ked" he tells
them what the map says after he wakes up
which looked good with his expressions
and how he said it.
The setting in the town of Springwood
looked good and dark too and a cool
effect on a house transforming into the
Thompson's former house that is now
Freddy's lair.
I really laughed wiuth the coaching of Johnny
Depp (He started his career in the
first film) in his cameo on a TV set
about what your mind does to drugs by
frying an egg in a pan and then Englund's
character as Freddy whacks him in the
head with the pan.
We see a nice effective colorful moment
with Englund asking if Breckin
Meyer's character wants to get high
which was hilarious. What was more
hilarious was the direction on Meyer
sleepwalking acting like a video game
character and Englund shows
terrific reactions playing him in a video
game.
Greenblat also does good acting
weak from pain before dying when he tries
to tell Zane's character about
who her father really is.
We see a nice dark and disturbing
dialogue between Lezlie Deane and
cult actor Peter Spellos whom we
all know credited as Orville Ketchum
in the Hockstater flicks Hard to
Die and Sororty House
Massacre 2. This scene was a
nightmare of a molestation moment which
was put well together.
There's a nice little direction between Englund
and Deane battling it out when Deane's
character tries to show him no mercy.
She directs a perfect flashback dream
sequence making Englund menacing in his
pre-Krueger killer days with his cast
members playing his family as it looked
disturbing with his dialogue between
child actress Cassandra Rachel Friel
of what went on there and Cassandra
really knew how to cry on set too.
What looked really good was when Zane
nearly shows sympathy with Englund's
character as he seemed convincing that he
tried to show his love for her as
daughter and father.
The energy really pumps up when Talalay
directs the two of them battling it
out.
Brian May
brilliantly composed the music for this
one using great classical music and
sometimes used the piano playing too from
the original movie as well. The music
works out very well. This is not the same
fellow who played in the classic rock
band Queen.
We have a perefect
rockin soundtrack by many good artists
especial Iron Butterfly with the
classic tune "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
We have some other songd by the Goo
Goo Dolls, Iggy Pop, Junk
Monkeys, Johnny Law, Fates
Warning and Young Lords
[Freddy
is dressed as The Wicked Witch of the
West and is riding a broom]
Freddy Krueger: I'll get you, my
pretty! And your little soul, too!
John
Doe: 4567 bottles of beer on the
wall, 4567 bottles of beer, if one of
those bottles should happen to fall, what
a case of i...
[is hit with a pillow]
Angry Boy: Hell, I'll break a
bottle over your head if you don't shut
the fuck up!
John Doe: [glares] ... 4566
bottles of beer on the wall...
Oprah
Noodlemantra: All right, once
again... This is your brain.
[Cracks egg]
Oprah Noodlemantra: This is your
brain ON DRUGS. Any Questions?
[Freddy hits him with the frying pan]
Freddy Krueger: Yeah! What are YOU
on? Looks like a frying pan and some eggs
to me!
Spencer's
Father: Be like me.
[Fells Spencer]
Spencer's Father: Be like me; be
like me.
Freddy Krueger: Father knows best.
[after grabbing the tennis racket and
while hitting him with it]
Spencer: I'm not like you! I don't
wanna be like you!
Freddy
Krueger: [playing a video game and
watching a character get hit] Now I'm
playing with power!
John
Doe: I know why you let me go.
Freddy Krueger: Ohh... Do you
think I'M YOUR DADDY? Mm-mmm! Wrong!
Freddy
Krueger: Time to start all over
again.
Maggie Burroughs: But this isn't
Springwood.
Freddy Krueger: [Laughs]
Every town has an Elm Street!
Tracy's
Father: No honey for daddy?
[Morphs into Freddy Krueger]
Freddy Krueger: What's with kids
today, huh? Noo respect.
Freddy
Krueger: Kung fu THIS, bitch.
Tracy: This is my dream, and I do
what I want.
Freddy Krueger: Might be your
dream, but it's my RULES!
Freddy
Krueger: Sticks and stones may break
my bones... but nothin' will ever kill
me. Well, let's see now. First, they
tried burning me.
[slices off thumb]
Freddy Krueger: Then, they tried
burying me.
[slices off index finger]
Freddy Krueger: But this... this
is my favorite.
Freddy Krueger: [gives a finger
gesture] They even tried holy water!
Freddy Krueger: [slices off
middle finger, drops hand out of frame
and holds it up again with all fingers
intact] But I just keep on tickin'.
Classmates:
[chanting] son of a hundred
maniacs, son of a hundred maniacs, son of
a hundred maniacs...
Freddy's
Father: You been a waste since the
day I took you in... now it's time to
take your medicine.
[whips Freddy with a belt]
Young Freddy: [laughs as the
belt strikes him] Thank you, sir. May
I have another?
[his father whips him four more times,
but before he can do it the fifth time,
Freddy grabs the belt]
Young Freddy: You wanna know the
secret of pain? If you just stop feeling
it, you can start using it.
[holds up a bloody razor blade]
Katherine
Krueger: [shoves a stick of
dynamite into Freddy's chest]
[kisses Freddy on the cheek]
Katherine Krueger: Happy Father's
Day.
[runs out of the room]
Freddy Krueger: [looks at the
screen] Kids.
[Freddy explodes]
[last
lines]
Maggie Burroughs: Freddy's dead.
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