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What was Freddy's motivation in this film

posted 5 years ago by Bosdog6777 (817)
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I mean seriously what the hell was Freddy trying to do here? Was he trying to be the kids daddy and make him Freddy Jr.?

Was he trying to be reborn as Jacob to enter the real world as a baby? if so why it's like "Ohh my baby is Freddy? Let me just grab this pillow here and problem solved and as a bonus Baby Back Ribs for dinner

Was he trying to make Jacob evil so he would willingly feed people to Freddy as he got older?

Also why if the baby is having the dreams does Alice see them in waking life? Like Dan's body saying "wanna make babies", Greta in the Fridge and Mark on the paper she draws herself on?

None of this is explained very well at all if at all. Thank God Rachel Talalay took over and gave us the most interesting, easy to follow, no bullshit sequel of the whole bunch after Dream Warriors in the glorious Freddy's Dead

[–] B1cKsurN (14820) 5 years ago

SuperFreddy

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7406) 5 years ago

Yeah. I didn't care for this one either. It's trying to be dark and goofy at the same time. The stuff at the end where they have to release his mother's soul to defeat him doesn't make much sense either.

[–] Bosdog6777 (817) 5 years ago

That whole "Freddy needs your fear" mumbo jumbo didnt save Mark from Super Freddy

[–] hurricane (1908) 5 years ago

Though The Dream Child isn't my favourite, you are kidding about Freddy's Dead. Right?

[–] Bosdog6777 (817) 5 years ago

Freddy's Dead is awesome. Ill take the John Doe dreams over anything in the series

[–] vegan_voorhees (383) 5 years ago

Both 5 and 6 suck. Good FX and little else.

[–] Bosdog6777 (817) 5 years ago

As a kid who spent the 80's imagining what Freddy movies were like and first real exposure being the Nintendo Game and Game Manuel Storyline which is pretty much just Freddy's Dead two years before Freddy's Dead came out Freddy's Dead is everything i hoped and imagined Freddy would be.

Make no mistake as a hardcore 80's Nintendo fan and collector i recognized Rachel Talalay's description of the Power Glove in one of the bonus dvd's that she explained it as only a true Nintendo fan of the time could.

So Rachel Talalay being a Nintendo fan of the 80's no doubt played Nightmare on Elm Street in 1989 and based Freddy's Dead off of it which came out in 1991 meaning they went to work on this right after the video game came out and that's why you get the Video game death and the power glove reference and all that. Because Freddy's Dead is a big screen adaption of the Nintendo Game and thats why i love Freddy's Dead