It wasn't scary, at all. Not even a little. No suspense.
Freddy was really campy. Like a clown. No terror from him at all.
All the deaths were lame. And compared to the others, there was so little violence
It's like some weird pg 13 horror, but not
I found it sick and traumatizing when I first saw it.
If Freddy was tormenting you like this, you'd be scared.
And I know, "But he's not tormenting me like this, blah blah blah"
I usually put myself in the victims shoes.
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To me when Freddy became a clown he became more disturbing.
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I agree, it wasn't scary. I liked the gothic atmosphere, but the movie wasn't scary.
Freddy was annoying, and his makeup sucked in this and in the horrible film Freddy's Dead.
I liked the kills (Dan's and Greta's anyway), but there wasn't enough of them. Only Wes Craven's masterpiece should have gotten away with such a low body count due to how great and original that film was.
The kills were tame. That being said it would be nice if they were to release the uncut version of the film on DVD because it is a lot better.
I really think one of the reasons, among several, that Freddy wasn't nearly as scary in this is because Alice was written and acted SO strongly.
The only other time prior to this film that a hero/heroine was written as being nearly fearless of Freddy was Nancy in Dream Warriors, and even then she was written as going to extremes in order to avoid even the possibility of facing Freddy again.
I love, love Alice in this, but she's almost a little too strong as the dream master. She felt like Freddy's equal, and came across as so strong, and capable, that I felt like Freddy was more her nemesis in this, the Magneto to her Xavier, and not as much of a real threat.
I don't see how Freddy isn't scary. The idea that someone takes the act of murder so lightly that they are able to laugh, joke, and mock the victims while committing the murders is very creepy to me. This is one of the best in the series because it has a dark, spooky atmosphere about it that not many other horror films are able to capture. I love the death scenes (especially Dan and Greta's deaths). I was obsessed with these movies when I was about 7 years old (for some reason my parents never had a problem with me watching this particular franchise, I think it was because of the comedy) yet none of them scared me except for this one because of the way Greta's face looked while it was being stuffed. Although I have seen the film many times since then, that scene is still disturbing today.
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^A lot of people feel Freddy is scarier when he is seen less, and in the shadows. Parts 1 and 2 did this well.
Parts 3 and 4 still featured a somewhat creepy Freddy, but he started getting too much screen time and was fully illuminated too often.
Parts 5 and 6 were where he started talking too much and a lot of people feel a quieter killer is more likely to induce fear.
You however are not alone in feeling that the joking Freddy was still scary (or perhaps even more so?). Others have expressed the same sentiment.
The way I see it, if you like a silent stalker, you've got Jason for that.
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How does that have an effect on anything? Jason Voorhees doesn't alter the fact this franchise got worse as it went along.
shareThe very idea of dream stalking aside, the only time Freddy was remotely scary was in the original. And even then it was when he was mostly off screen.
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I was 5 or 6 yrs old when I first seen this one, and I would say the atmosphere creeped me out most and I thought it was the most gross of the series. I think since Hellraiser came out about this time and change the horror game and was popular with it's gothic/gross atmosphere. So this nightmare movie went more that direction I believe.
shareAgreed: This is the worst one of the whole series. The scene where Dan gets killed in the truck they use that carnival music, and I felt like that summed up this whole movie: one big crappy carnival.
shareWell some dream sequences are more gothic and imaginative, but other than that this was the least memorable, scary or fun Elm Street movie I've seen.
shareWhat the heck happened with this movie?
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