Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6

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Movie
German title Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6
Original title Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rachel Talalay
script Rachel Talalay
production Robert Shaye ,
Aron Warner
music Brian May
camera Declan Quinn
cut Janice Hampton
occupation
chronology

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Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Trauma

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Freddy's New Nightmare

Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6 is a horror film from 1991 and the sixth and supposedly last part of the Nightmare series. In it, Krueger would finally die and never return. The plot is very bizarre and does not tie in with any of the previous storylines.

action

The film is set ten years in the future - Freddy murdered all of Springwood's children. Only one youth survived and was able to flee the city. But on the run he loses his memory and is taken in by a social institution for street children. In search of his lost memories, he returns to Springwood with teacher Maggie and three other young people. Happy about the fresh meat, Krueger goes back to killing and finds a way to break out of Springwood. In the home of the street children there is the final fight in which the dream demons who helped Freddy immortality are driven out.

In longer flashbacks, Krueger's past as a bourgeois child murderer is shown: Outwardly, the still physically intact father of the family, Freddy Krueger, maintains a facade of the beautiful appearance until his wife learns of the double life of her sadistic husband, who is in the do-it-yourself basement below his house set up a kind of torture chamber. In addition, Krueger's execution by the parents of the Elm Street children is shown. While earlier parts said that Freddy Krueger was arrested and burned in a nearby factory, the sixth part moved the place of his supposed death to his house.

reception

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged that Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6 was a "surreal rollercoaster designed horror film", "which despite some extremely bloody scenes should give fans of the genre a sneaky pleasure".

Awards (selection)

  • Lezlie Deane was nominated for the 1991 Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress.
  • Punk rock icon Iggy Pop was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in 1992 for the song Why Was I Born (Freddy's Dead) , which can be heard in the credits of the horror film .

Gross profit

With a budget of around 11 million US dollars, the film was able to gross around 35 million US dollars in North America.

Trivia

  • At the beginning of the plot, the horror film parodies the famous scene from the fairy tale film The Wizard of Oz from 1939, in which a hurricane whirls the wooden hut through the air with the girl Dorothy and the dog Toto in it and outside the window the wicked witch of the east on hers Broom flies by. In Nightmare on Elm Street 6 satirizes Freddy Krueger this scene by Freddy also flies on a broom, that in addition to falling into the depths of the apartment of amnesia sufferer John Doe , played by actor Shon Greenblatt .
  • In the sixth part of the Nightmare series, a young person appears who cannot remember his name due to memory loss and is therefore given the replacement name John Doe in the children's and youth home that takes him in . In colloquial English, the term John Doe generally refers to a person who cannot be identified.
  • Actor Johnny Depp , who began his film career with a role in the first part of the Nightmare series ( Nightmare - Murderous Dreams ), appears in a short sequence as the host of a television show frying fried eggs in a frying pan.
  • Rock singer Alice Cooper plays a short supporting role as the adoptive father of Freddy Krueger , who whips and humiliates his adoptive son, who shows a tendency to self-harm , in the basement until he defends himself with a razor. When the drunken father repeatedly beats his adopted son Freddy with a belt, he suddenly shows himself unimpressed and catches the slapping hand of his adoptive father. The young Freddy Krueger speaks the following sentences: “ Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling him, he becomes a friend. "(In the English-language original:" You want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it - you can start using it. ")
  • As in part 4, producer Robert Shaye appears in a short supporting role as a diabolical ticket seller in a blood-smeared ticket booth at a night bus stop, but is given in the credits under the name LE Moko .
  • Actress Lezlie Deane , who stars as the blonde teenage home girl Tracy , was a former member of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders , but Deane had to leave the cheerleading formation after six weeks after beating a choreographer. As a singer, Lezlie Deane was involved in the dance-pop group Fem2Fem , which Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson performed in the opening act on tours . Her current band is called Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs , mixes glam with punk rock and had a small hit with the song Don't Wanna . At Fem2Fem , a women's ensemble that existed from 1993 to 1997 and flirted with a lesbian attitude, Lezlie Deane was successful with the songs Obsession and Where Did Love Go .
  • Although screenwriter and director Rachel Talalay was already involved in Wes Craven's Original Nightmare , she moves the events in her own film to the US state of Ohio , leaving the fictional city of Springwood (originally under Wes Craven Los Angeles ) to a small one , provincial towns are shrinking and even Krueger's end is moving from the well-known boiler room in the factory to a wooden hut on the outskirts of the small town.
  • In the scene in which the adolescent Spencer, played by actor Breckin Meyer , is lying on the sofa smoking a hashish cigarette, Freddy Krueger appears to him during a psychedelic vision in the broken television set, which Spencer pulls into the screen. The hippie song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly from 1968 is heard , which is considered a drug song .
  • There is a DVD mis-pressing (Laser Paradise), which shows a release from 16 on the cover, but contains the uncut original version. Since the error was soon recognized, relatively few copies of this edition have been sold.
  • There is disagreement as to whether the German title is Freddy's Finale (corresponding to English grammar and thus with an apostrophe) or Freddy's Finale (corresponding to German grammar and thus without an apostrophe). While the first variant was used for the cinema posters and the cover of the old VHS edition, Warner preferred the second spelling for the current DVD version.
  • The last quarter of an hour is available in a 3D version. When the film Freddy's Finale was released in the cinemas in 1991, 3D glasses were distributed there in order to give the audience the “ultimate Freddy experience”, but the German cinema version did not contain a 3D ending. This 3D section is available as a bonus on the DVD (WB). The 3D glasses required for this were only included in the American Nightmare on Elm Street box. It was missing in the German box. During the course of the film, when the showdown between psychologist Maggie Burroughs , the daughter of Freddy Krueger, played by actress Lisa Zane , and the scarred face of Freddy begins, the psychologist Maggie also puts on such 3D glasses.
  • The two actors Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold also have a small supporting role.

Cut versions

The new German version is largely uncut compared to the US version.

There is also a heavily abridged version, which was given an age rating of 16 and over by the FSK . The unabridged German version was indexed from April 1992 to April 2017 and was deleted after the 25-year period had expired. A re-examination of the FSK resulted in a release from 16 years for the unabridged version.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Freddy's Finale - Nightmare on Elm Street 6. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101917/awards?ref_=tt_ql_op_1
  4. ↑ Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Comparison between the German cut version and the American cut version at schnittberichte.com
  6. ↑ Comparison between the American cut version and the German cut version at schnittberichte.com
  7. ↑ Comparison between the FSK-18 and FSK-16 versions at schnittberichte.com
  8. ↑ Gerald Wurm: Nightmare on 6 Elm Street is from the index. Retrieved May 2, 2017 .
  9. ↑ New age rating for the unabridged version at schnittberichte.com