I think that it was pretty obvious by the time that they made this that the franchise already had died. This was made way before the reboot craze, when Hollywood could have just kept on repeating itself until the end of times. Hollywood have indeed invented a way to bring the dead back to life. Anyway, I am digressing.
It is not as bad of a movie as a lot of people say but by this point nothing that made the whole thing interesting in the first place had remained. Freddy Krueger was no longer scary, the whole thing plays a bit like a comedy. His ways of killing had not only been becoming bizarre with every movie but comical as well. He turns a kid into a piece of paper and cuts him apart, drags another kid into a video game,… The final showdown is ridiculous to say the least. The whole movie is based upon a plot device that makes no sense at all, Freddy Krueger had a daughter, something that everyone has failed to mention in all the previous movies. The scene that shows the original town, now completely devoid of children with them going mad over seeing children again for the first time of ages was pretty nice. Johnny Depp cameo is wonderfull.
The whole thing is not that bad because it still does work on a B-movie level, it is a potential guilty pleasures but most seem to disagree on that.
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