Number 6. This one is pretty damn bad, worst yet. Set 10 years in the future, so 2001. Springwood is finally given a definitive location, the state of Ohio. Freddy got lose again and has killed EVERY SINGLE CHILD in Springwood, save one who got away and who he's now after.
We get more Freddy backstory, turns out he has a biological child who was taken away from him, which prompted the string of child murders which ultimately got him killed. We also learn that three ancient demons are responsible for Freddy's repeated returns, take away the demons protection, make him mortal again, and you can finally kill him for good, maybe.
I kind of liked the video game sequence, and Yaphet Kotto is in this as a sort of dream therapist, I usually like Kotto but there is little to his part here; there is little to anything here. Random, cheap feeling, the 2nd in the series to have no returning characters beside Freddy. There are also a number of odd celebrity cameos, presumably because this was to be the last one, including Johnny Depp and Tom and Rosanne Arnold.
While not the last Freddy Krueger movie, this can be said to be the end of the franchise proper. While Robert Englund would return to the role for two more films, they would be a proto Scream meta movie (Wes Craven's New Nightmare) and a cross over with another 80's horror icon (Freddy vs. Jason). I think this will also be the end of these movies for me this year. I give the "final" entry *
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