"They saved the best for last." Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare was released on this day in 1991.
The film made $12.9 million in its opening weekend, which was the highest opening weekend of the series until the release of Freddy vs. Jason. It ended its theatrical run with a gross of $34.9 million in the US and Canada on a budget of $9–11 million.
Freddy's Dead was panned by critics upon release and is the second lowest rated Elm Street movie on Rotten Tomatoes, ahead of only the 2010 remake.
Fun fact: Peter Jackson was originally hired to write the screenplay for the film. He wrote a draft, but it wasn't used. Peter Jackson's original screenplay saw Freddy aging and growing weak within the dream world. The teens of Springwood would have drug-fuelled slumber parties for kicks and enter the dream world to beat him up.
