{"id":18083,"date":"2025-10-30T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18083"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:24:38","slug":"freddys-dead-1991-rachel-talalay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18083","title":{"rendered":"Freddy&#8217;s Dead (1991, Rachel Talalay)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opens with a <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/956\">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet<\/a><\/em> scenario.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/freddead3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>After a teenage apocalypse, 24 year-old Shon is the last living teenager in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/freddead1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Fred keeps wizard-of-ozzing him, until Amnesiac Shon thinks he is the Anti-Freddy Messiah, then he gets dropped from a height onto a bed of spikes.<\/p>\n<p>Dream Therapist Yaphet Kotto and Lisa &#8220;sister of Billy&#8221; Zane are counselors bringing a fresh batch of doomed teens to Freddytown.  They immediately run into Roseanne and Tom Arnold, a bad sign.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/freddead2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Deaf Ricky Dean Logan (<em>Back to the Future Part II<\/em>) is given faulty hearing aids and his head explodes.<\/p>\n<p>Gamer Breckin Meyer (of Skeet Ulrich thriller <em>Touch<\/em>) goes inside the television and gets Super Mario&#8217;d in a series highlight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/freddead4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Boxer Lezlie Deane (of <em>976-EVIL<\/em>) maybe survives along with the counselors?<\/p>\n<p><em>Comin&#8217; at ya:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/freddead7.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Little Fred turned bad because his father was Alice &#8220;<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15323\">Prince of Darkness<\/a>&#8221; Cooper.  Now he&#8217;s dead, like the title says.  They got him with a grenade, he&#8217;s dead for sure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/freddead6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Talalay followed up with video store staples <em>Ghost in the Machine<\/em> (a mashup of <em>Lawnmower Man<\/em> with <em>Pulse<\/em> 1988) and <em>Tank Girl<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/freddead5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Comin&#8217; at ya:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/freddead8.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opens with a Nightmare at 20,000 Feet scenario. After a teenage apocalypse, 24 year-old Shon is the last living teenager in Ohio. Fred keeps wizard-of-ozzing him, until Amnesiac Shon thinks he is the Anti-Freddy Messiah, then he gets dropped from a height onto a bed of spikes. Dream Therapist Yaphet Kotto and Lisa &#8220;sister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,494,54,181,92],"class_list":["post-18083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-dreaming","tag-horror","tag-sequel","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18105,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083\/revisions\/18105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}