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- 80Washington PostRichard HarringtonWashington PostRichard HarringtonYou're going out with a touch of class: a slam-bang finale in 3-D -- make that Freddyvision; a gaggle of one-liners directed at the final crop of victims and a few in-jokes; some wonderfully bizarre dream sequences; and the possibility that while Freddy may be gone, some of his progeny may live on (we can say no more).
- 60The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinMr. Englund, playing the Halloween favorite whom audiences love to hate, now delivers lines like this with the broadness of a latter-day Jimmy Durante. But he sustains Freddy's peculiar charm even when appearing without ghastly makeup in scenes of Freddy's early years.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineFREDDY'S DEAD is one of the weaker entries, with overt violence downplayed, perhaps because Freddy has become something of an institution, star of the silver screen as well as a short-lived TV series and innumerable merchandizing ploys.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleSo Freddy's Dead, in the hands of first-time director Rachel Talalay, pretty much tramples incoherently and unscarily across the same old cemeteries of the mind and through the same dark corridors of old, cobwebbed houses. [14 Sept 1991, p.C3]
- 42Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIt’s disappointingly ho-hum, without the spectacular — and often very funny — special effects that have become the hallmark of this series.
- 40EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanYou know Freddy may or may not be finally dead, but he's looking pretty damn tired.
- A proverbial whimper of a finale, Freddy's Dead, the sixth in the series, feels like the product of people who have no vested interest in keeping their franchise alive...You notice almost immediately how underpopulated the movie feels--by ideas, by special effects, even by phobic young cast members waiting to fall asleep and be slaughtered.
- 30Time OutTime OutTerminally boring.
- 0Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt's even worse than you thought it might be.