Ranking The A Nightmare On Elm Street Films From Worst To Best

This film's bold title suggested that this would be the grandiose send-off for one of horror's biggest icons, and you can imagine the immense excitement that fans must have felt in the lead-up to its release. Even the film's poster claimed that they "saved the best one for last"

Boy howdy, how wrong they were.

Overly goofy, weirdly cheap-looking, and lacking all of the stylistic flourishes that the series was so famous for.

It could be argued that this film was supposed to be a comedy, or poking fun at the series as a whole, but every attempt at humour falls flat on its face, and having Freddy reenact The Wizard of Oz or Looney Tunes feels a tad embarrassing. The bland cast of characters coupled with some of the most ridiculous deaths in the series also do this no favours, and it stands as one of the worst horror sequels ever made.

Perhaps its one saving grace is a beautifully sinister cameo by Alice Cooper, who plays Freddy's abusive alcoholic father in some fairly well-constructed flashback sequences. Aside from that and the always fantastic Robert Englund, there's very little else to recommend here outside of watching it for completionist's sake.