10 Horror Movies That Lied To You In The Title

Much like Jason's Final Chapter, Freddy's Final Nightmare was far from it.

The sixth film in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise sees Freddy (Robert Englund) return to Springwood and kill just about every child and teenager he can find. But magic and hoodoo and other forces at work bring a few fresh pieces of flesh back into his neighbourhood, when John (Shon Greenblatt) unwittingly brings Krueger's long-lost daughter Maggie (Lisa Zane) to Elm Street. Father and daughter wind up in a brutal showdown that rids Freddy of his dream demons (stony, snake-looking things that, conveniently, are the source of the pizza-faced villain's power) and Maggie ends Freddy for good.

Or, you know, for three years, until Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which brings Freddy out of the screen and into the "real" world (this kind of thing was big in the '90s) as the physical form of an Entity out to kill the cast and creators of the Nightmare films. But the fun doesn't end there, because Freddy returns to fight Jason in 2003's Freddy vs. Jason, and then again in the 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot.

And we probably haven't even seen the last of him (looking at you, David Gordon Green).