The Reel Rejects - FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (1991) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:36 after the reaction. I'll tell you why I love them so much and what they are. Prepare yourselves. Okay, we're just going to watch this. We're going to see how it goes and we're grateful to you guys. Thank you so much for letting us be the she-jacks,

Starting point is 00:01:48 the horror host, the screen queens. We love you so much. Why do they like us so much? We don't know. Thank goodness for you. I was starting to feel like no one never love me again. No. But then your heart and your mind were once. It's one man and we're here to love you all the way through all these horrors. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. We're the

Starting point is 00:02:08 horror horse. Yeah. All right. Here we go. All right, friends, before we let you know our full thoughts on that, don't forget, if you are on Apple podcast, Spotify, five star, let us know how you you guys are feeling. Leave a comment. We read things over there and on YouTube. We want to know how you guys are feeling. It's the only reason that Tara and I have been able to take on so many horror franchises is because you guys are letting your voice be heard. And it means the world to us. So thank you so much for that. Okay. It says at the bottom, did you like Freddy's Dead, the final nightmare? It's like a prompt for us, Tara. I would have to click, not for me. but that's only because I just didn't now I yawned a few times I don't normally like

Starting point is 00:02:57 yon during these I wasn't really scared I went like this because I was going I was yawning I would felt a little tired like I mean yeah maybe I got here tired but I mean normally these movies they get me up they get me going they get me excited there's like blood guts and gore but I also like you kind of you get excited about what's to come and for some reason it's like this movie just decided yes there were some cool special effects some cool practical effects like when when freddie starts cutting off his fingers i thought that was cool green goo yeah like gnarly there there's some great um great stuff in here but i do think that they just were like this seems cool video game like what if you went in the video game and you know

Starting point is 00:03:42 freddy's controlling it i'm like yeah that's a great that's a cool idea um but maybe if we had seen that from the top. It was just like thrown in kind of. They all were just even like Groundhog Day with the van over and over and the three kids. Why do we have all three of them? Yeah, I wanted to find out about the town like are they all

Starting point is 00:03:58 Talk to me about the town. Talk to me about Roseanne Barr for a second. Exactly. I don't know. They just were like throwing the stuff in. But then they're still there like I need more. It would have been really cool if he had taken complete control of this town

Starting point is 00:04:13 not let anybody sleep, tortured them. Yeah. And they were the ones kind of. of pushing the storyline forward but we saw them and then they were gone agreed yeah absolutely they that was it i just don't i don't know what service streaming service did we just watch this on amazon prime okay can we talk about something kind of crazy on amazon prime this has a four and a half out of five stars wild but it's only 235 reviews so maybe not enough people have watched it listen

Starting point is 00:04:48 It is cool that the daughter is like, get out of here, dad, I hate you, and she kills him. Awesome. When the head blows up, when the kid's head, cool. But overall, as a film with a plot and a story, I didn't like care. I wasn't like, oh, super excited. I don't know. There was just some stuff missing. The premise says Elm Street's Freddie Kruger terrorizes his therapist daughter who tries to destroy him once and for all.

Starting point is 00:05:19 That didn't happen. Oh, his therapist's daughter. Not his therapist. And like, but even, even so, did he try to terrorize her? No. It was all the other kids. When he says to the guy, like, I just wanted you, Johnny, he's like, I just wanted you to return my daughter for what?

Starting point is 00:05:36 Like, I wish I, we saw him be like, I've been waiting my whole life to be a tag team with you. Like, can we do this together or something? Like, what did he want her back for so bad? He was pissed at her because he, she outed it. for killing his mom her mom but like I just wanted to see why did not why now why do you want her back what's up with the rest of this town um yeah yeah why the other kids why didn't he why didn't we see her just being terrorized and then if the kids if you wanted more creative kills in there

Starting point is 00:06:06 like find a way for the kids to to like bump into her somehow or like be in her nightmare but it was it literally seemed like four different plots and he was and just terrorizing her because it started with the other kid and all the kids. I feel really bad saying this, but I really think because we are loving the Chucky franchise so much right now, it is so hard to see what sequels can be when you take big swings and what sequels can't be when you take big swings. And this movie did take a swing. But like what we're watching right now with the Chucky franchise between bride of Chucky,

Starting point is 00:06:43 seed of Chucky, like them making things so weird, but it works for the character. they've created as opposed to this where it's like as short films there are some moments of this where I'm like that is so weird and cool yes but it's it doesn't service the overall franchise or the overall film and it's unfortunately causing me to not like this the the the freddie movies are supposed to be some of the greatest horror movies of all time right I thought nightmare on elm street was supposed be one of the greatest franchises right but it's really not the franchise as much it's not it's the first agreed I got to look up some things about this because I'm so curious

Starting point is 00:07:18 I'm super curious about the Brian May part of this the music I was really expecting like because you had really if it was Brian May of Queen let me let me tell you some stuff about this Tara let me look into this and I feel bad you guys because I did come into this like maybe it was a little tired

Starting point is 00:07:38 but then I got extra tired because I was like I don't I'm not excited by initially what was happening. Like the initial opening sequence was cool. Like the tickets and then you're like the bus and you're like, okay, this is a long nightmare. But then once we just stayed with those kids and each separate one was being like haunted with bad nightmares, I was just like, where's the plot? Okay, let's see. Here we go with some trivia. According to Alice Cooper and never sleep again, the Elm Street legacy, which is in 2010, he stated that he gets asked to be in films all the time, but they always want him in makeup and as his on-stage persona.

Starting point is 00:08:16 He agreed to be in this film not only because he was a fan of the series, but also if he could play his character as Freddy's father as himself without his usual Alice Cooper look. What does that have to do with this one? Did you zone out for what I said? When he, when he said in the Elm Street legacy, sleep again, I don't, to. we see did was that Alice Cooper and I just didn't recognize him that would be absolutely that shit insane because I old when he was beating him I wear an Alice Cooper that's what I think it's implying I wear an Alice Cooper shirt I love Alice Cooper was that Alice Cooper and I was just

Starting point is 00:08:59 so out of it Alice Cooper let's see huh Alice Cooper uh what's this movie called Freddy's Freddy's dead. Freddy's dead. Yeah, that was, that's, are you kidding? That's crazy. Interesting. And I just had, did not notice, but then he was in that outfit. And, wow, that is wild.

Starting point is 00:09:24 That was his dad in the plaid with the hat. Yeah, beating him. No, that makes everything so much cooler. How did you guys get Alice Cooper to, and, and was this the Brian May? Okay, we got to keep looking at trivia. That's a crazy thing. They should have used that as the main attraction. Okay, let's see.

Starting point is 00:09:43 Did you know? Peter Jackson's original screenplay for Freddy's dead saw Freddie aging and growing weak within the dream world. The teens of Springwood would have drug-fueled slumber parties for kicks and enter the dream world to beat him up. I kind of like that. That's a fascinating pitch. I love that. First film in the series did not include the little girls jumping rope, singing Freddy's rhymes. Instead, the lyrics appear written in several places.

Starting point is 00:10:10 On September 12th, 1991, a day before the U.S. release of the movie, Los Angeles declared it for any Kruger Day. Johnny Depp in a television commercial about 42 minutes in, New Line Cinema's first film in 3D. Oh, it was in 3D. I did not even notice that that's like, it didn't look like anything was shot specifically about that. Interesting. The glove gliding with the sparks coming at you, I was like, why now that's made now? So, going back to the Peter Jackson, then Peter Jackson was originally hired to write the screenplay for this film. He wrote a draft, but it wasn't used.

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Starting point is 00:15:37 Yeah. As this movie was meant to end the series, this is the first nightmare on Elm Street film not to end on a cliffhanger. Okay. When shown theatrically audience members were given one pair of red cardboard 3D glasses with movie taglines printed on it, the inside arms had adhesives for attaching to standard glasses. An advertisement for House Party 2, 1991, was printed

Starting point is 00:16:00 on the outside of one arm. So that's why she was wearing the three glasses. Oh, okay. Cool. The highest opening weekend for the series until the release of Freddy versus Jason. Really? Wait, say that again? This was the highest opening weekend for the series until the release of

Starting point is 00:16:16 Freddy versus Jason. Whoa. But they were probably a little disappointed. I feel like I've lost you. Have I lost you? I just You with me? I'm with you. I just... Okay, ready for this one?

Starting point is 00:16:28 Yep. The director, Rachel Tallulay, got really sick toward the end of filming schedule. They couldn't delay production to wait for her. So according to Sean Greenblatt, Aaron Warner actually directed the last several hours of filming of the movie, including the final scene between Freddie and John Doe.

Starting point is 00:16:47 Freddy and John Doe. That's John's name. Right. Okay. Got it. When Freddie punches Tracy in the face during their epic, fight. Robert England really punched Leslie Dean. Oh my god. Okay, that's crazy. Whoa. Although this movie is said to be the final installment of a nightmare on Elm Street series,

Starting point is 00:17:06 Robert England would return for his iconic horror antagonist again for new nightmare in 94 and played the role one last time in Freddy versus Jason. Okay. That's cool. I'm excited to see that one. I can't believe that about Alice Cooper. This is Breck and Meyer's first theatrical role. that's pretty cool okay um let's see i want to see i need to find out about this brian may thing so what was this called freddie's dead yeah freddie's dead brian may because what a weird what a wild choice um okay can you talk in the meantime yes i'm sorry you're making me worried um i am good uh i am uh i'm good i am i'm good I'm just, I don't know, maybe I'm, I'm out of it today, but also I'm just, I'm a little just

Starting point is 00:18:03 disappointed in, in the movie. Like, I, it's odd that I can't really pull things to honestly talk about. I didn't really see the theme, like, but she was right about, like, the, the, that you just don't be like your parents great. Um, but I, I still think, and it was like gnarly about how mean the parent. were right and in the one it's not that Brian May it's not right I didn't think it would be because this is queen right but I was like but how many Brian Mays are that's probably a lot um that how gnarly they made the parents in this I get it um but specifically when she seeks like vengeance on him and she goes to kill him I want to be like hooting and hollering and clapping

Starting point is 00:18:52 and being really excited I there was a portion of that in a different reaction action you guys will see it that I do but in this one I wasn't I was just like yeah girl like good job but I wasn't I don't know they they needed to give us more for it for me to like really celebrate the vengeance and like killing him but this movie didn't do a good job of that I think we're a little disappointed I'll be interested to see the next one yeah if you are liking us here go check out our purge franchise that we did go check out the chucky one um i'm if this is your favorite movie in the franchise let us know why in the comments i'm curious maybe they see something that we don't see yeah or did you feel disappointed like we did it happens sometimes um but for the goodness of terra

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The Reel Rejects - FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (1991) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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