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When the team at New Line Cinema set out to make "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare," they intended to kill off the dream demon of Elm Street for good. The at-the-time sixth and intended final film of the franchise (which would be undone by "Wes Craven's New Nightmare," "Freddy vs. Jason," and the 2010 remake of the original), would see Freddy Krueger taken down once and for all , never to return to terrorize cinematic screens with a new outing ever again. Killing off Freddy Krueger wouldn't just be the end of a character, but one of the Mount Rushmore slasher icons that completely changed the genre forever . Freddy couldn't go out with a whimper; he needed to go out in the most explosive way possible, and in the year 1991, th

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