12 Horror Sequels You Should Die Before You See

So this is how it ends: not with a bang, but with a Roseanne Barr cameo.

Also in the film are Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper, so by this time Freddy was like Batman in the Joel Schumacher movies – they’d removed him from the shadows, surrounded him with stars and given him a steady stream of one-liners. In other words, they’d turned him into a cartoon.

Though set “ten years from now” in a world where all the Elm St kids have been killed off, the pop culture references mean it must be 1991. For a variety of reasons, some unsympathetic morons arrive in Springwood, fall asleep in the Krueger house and spend the rest of the film being stalked by a tired punster in a red and green sweater.

Trapping a kid in a videogame, Freddy kills him with his “power glove” and says, “I beat my high score!” He fights off a martial artist with the zinger “Kung-Fu this, bitch!” and, in a scene that somehow didn’t knock the world off its axis, cuts off a guy’s ear and says, “Lend me your ears.”