How Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare Secretly Defied Nintendo
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare brought the original Nightmare on Elm Street series to an over-the-top end, and the creators had no fear about including a Nintendo product without the video game company's permission. Freddy (Robert Englund) has dispatched his victims in a multitude of ways, from pulling Johnny Depp's Glen into his bed and shooting out a geyser of blood to using Phillip's (Bradley Gregg) tendons as marionette strings to lead him off of a roof. Freddy's nightmares were limitless, as he was able to conjure anything that came to his mind to use teens' fears against them.
Director Rachel Talalay wanted to give Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare a tone that was a mix of Tim Burton and Twin Peaks, leading her to create the most tongue-in-cheek entry of the franchise. Filled with visual gags, celebrity cameos, and a third act that presented Freddy in 3D, the series went out on a bombastic note. In an attempt to connect further with Nightmare's teenage audience, one kill involved Spencer (Breckin Meyer) being sucked into a TV and forced to live in a video game, in which he's pursued by his overbearing father and eventually Freddy himself in 8-bit form. What made this sequence interesting is that Freddy is using a modified version of the Nintendo Power Glove, as he says a variation of the product's slogan, "Now I'm playing with power!"
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The use of the Power Glove in Freddy's Dead was initially denied by Nintendo, but Talalay and Nightmare series producer Robert Shaye defied Nintendo and secretly included it anyway. Today, this would be impossible, given how strict Nintendo is when it comes to protecting its copyrighted
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