| Drezzy | 50 | - It's been a few years since I've seen this, and I remembered absolutely nothing about it initially. This is the transition from Freddy as the wise-cracking sinister force that Wes Craven first made him as and the living demonic cartoon character he became in later entries. The acting is terrible, none of the characters are worth giving a damn about (not even the main ones), and all of the incredibly inventive deaths from its predecessor (the excellent Dream Warriors) seemed to go out the window for incredibly basic "you're asleep, I stab you" deaths early on. The most memorable kills are the water bed kill of Joey and the roach motel kill of Gina, but even of those only the roach motel really stands out, and it's wasted on the worst actress in the whole thing (which says a lot). Character development? Only one person gets it (Alice). Hell, even Freddy goes down far too easy, which is something that happened only in parts 4 and 5. This one makes Freddy seem more like a nuisance than a true threat, but I will say that the first and final act showed promise, and Renny Harlin's direction was solid. It's a damn shame that one of the few horror/slasher franchises with continuity abound falls apart whenever anybody not named Wes Craven has a hand in it (save for the outstandingly fun Freddy Vs. Jason). This movie would've been much better if some of the characters were better fleshed out or the kills more daring, but hey, New Line Cinema needed money, dig?
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