Better than Freddy's Revenge.

Strongly disagree... I just watched Freddy's Dead last night, and while I enjoyed it a LOT more than the first time I saw it, it's nowhere near as good as Freddy's Revenge.

At least in Freddy's Revenge, Freddy was still a dark, menacing figure. In this, he's fun to watch but he's portrayed in such a cartoonish manner. It's an okay movie, but it definitely goes full retard at times.

I'll always have a weird soft spot for Freddy's Revenge... it's got this awesome 80's atmosphere, mixed with the no-so-subtle gay subtext, and easily my favorite score of any Nightmare film. Freddy's Dead is fun, but I would have loved to see Peter Jackson's version, that sounded much more interesting.

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Agree that Dead is better than Revenge. The only thing that movie has going for it is its dark atmosphere, everything else about it fails. The writing and direction on it was terrible. You can literally swim in its plotholes and glitches. There were hordes of random and stupid things that happened that didn't really make sense, or were woefully executed. NLC literally slapped together that movie for the sake of getting a sequel out to capitalize on the momentum of the original, but it was dastardly poor by comparison.

The execution of Dead is rather poor too, but that's only because of certain creative choices they made (like the 3D nonsense and going too far with the hilarity aspect), but the script, story and overall production is FAR superior to Revenge and is actually one of the more solid of the series, after parts 1, 3 and 7.

It may be better than Freddys Revenge but its still a bad movie.

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Part 2 is one of my favorites of the series. At one time, it was actually my exact favorite.

The narrative in the first half is a little weak, but it makes up for it with creepy atmosphere and some funny scenes.

I love the pool party and the sequence in Grady's bedroom. Some of the best stuff of the whole series.

Freddy's Dead did a better job of what Freddy's Revenge tried to do, but couldn't:
Be its own movie that largely detached from the plot of the original, while still having a significant enough connection to what was already established.

Even though like FR, FD uses no previously established characters (like most of the other sequels did), it still flows better because you can BELIEVE what they're telling you... that Freddy has essentially wiped out that entire town based on what you already know of him, and that he now needs another territory to stalk to continue his evil work. It also does a semi-decent job of expanding on Krueger's own backstory and how he came to be.

By comparison, FR just has so many glaring unanswered questions, loose ends and mythology errors that it becomes impossible to try and piece it to the rest of the series, or even make sense of it for what it is. Were Jesse's parents part of the mob that killed Freddy? How about Lisa's or Grady's? Why did Freddy go out of his way to kill Coach Schneider...was HE part of the mob? What ever happened to the FR characters, did they live or die? And why was Jesse's/Freddy's house so deserted and dilapidated by Dream Warriors, when it was only a year later? That whole film leaves so many things hanging and unexplained that it's this giant *beep* of run-on subjectivity with no real conclusions or closure. It's almost like the movie essentially erases itself at the end and none of its events actually happened.

When it comes to sit-down-and-watch entertainment, I actually prefer FR to FD.... despite its many, many glitches, I still find it more captivating. And I like the dreadful mood of it (I think it even bests the original in that department)... but from a "critical thinking" standpoint, yeah Freddy's Dead IS the superior of the two.

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