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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: (Wes Craven's) Final Nightmare (1994)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, childhood trauma, horror, earthquakes, demons, death.
Oops, Freddy wasn’t really dead after the final nightmare. But as Wes Craven makes abundantly clear in this film, horror legends never really go away, they always stick around. Wes’ work in this film is admirable, and it’s some of the best storytelling in the series. Yet watching you can’t help but think about the meta-horror classic that Wes would bring to us just two years later, a...