Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Continuity mistake: When Freddy is controlling Spencer in the video game you see from Freddy's view that his legs are crossed on the table. When it cuts to in front of Freddy he has one foot only on the table. (00:42:25)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: At the start of the film on the plane, there is a woman sitting next to John Doe whose glasses go from being on her face, to then hanging down on straps around her neck, then back on her face between shots, just before she flies out the plane roof. (00:02:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When John and Maggie are at the old school, there is a teacher talking to a class which isn't really there. The teacher stands by the left side of the blackboard, which has large crosses drawn on it, in rows. It cuts to a closeup and the crosses are now smaller and more scattered. (00:27:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the doctor is talking to John Doe, you see her grabbing his arm. Also there is a man in a green shirt passing by them. Then it cuts and she grabs his arm again. The man in the green shirt is gone but now there is woman in black where the man should be. (00:19:25)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: John opens the window to find out the house is falling, and a large object goes flying through the window next to the bed, smashing out all the glass and all the wooden frames. Seconds later all the wooden frames are now repaired, however all the glass is still missing. (00:03:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: At the start of the film, when John is in the airplane, the position of the white cloth on his seat headrest continues to change. (00:01:35)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When John goes flying off of the bus, into the "real" world, he hits a large, jagged, uneven rock. Later when he awakes the rock is very smooth and rounded, obviously a different one. (00:07:25 - 00:08:05)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Freddy is standing above Carlos in his dream, he drops many pins from his hand. When it shows the pins falling, you see Carlos with his hands to his sides, but when it shows Carlos, his hands are over his ears and repeats several times.

Toolio

Continuity mistake: When Freddy is about to cut over the parachute you see him move the blade close to John's hand. When it cuts, Freddy's blade has moved further up. (00:50:10)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Maggie gets out of the cellar you see her with nothing in her hair. Suddenly she has leaves in it. (00:42:50)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When John walks up to the bus ticket booth, the booth's glass screen is covered in streaks of blood. During the differing shots from inside and outside the booth screen, the amount and position of these blood streaks keeps changing. (00:06:35)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When John wakes up in his room (which turns out to be falling through the sky) in the initial shots of him on the bed, the items (train models, books, etc.) on the bedside table continue to differ. (00:03:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In A Nightmare on Elm Street, Mrs. Thompson tells Nancy that a trail of gasoline went through the boiler room, out a door and set the entire place on fire. In this movie, a molotov cocktail is thrown through a window.

Continuity mistake: When Maggie stabs Freddy with the glove, in one shot she has her tied hair down over her jumper, but in the next shot it is above her jumper, and tied higher.

Revealing mistake: When John tries to stop the van while Maggie is driving, because he sees the small girl in the road, as the van screeches around the road, you can see the road is covered in tyremarks from previous takes. (00:20:10)

Hamster

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Trivia: Producer Robert Shaye has a cameo as the operator selling bus tickets in a booth.

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Question: What were other children singing/chanting when young Freddy used hammer to kill the hamster?

Answer: "Son of a hundred maniacs." Freddy was conceived when his mother, Amanda, was accidentally locked in a ward of violent mental patients and gang raped.

Brian Katcher

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