Nightmare On Elm Street 4 The Dream Master's silliest death was almost avoided twice in the sequel's production, but the scene still survived.





While Nightmare On Elm Street 4 The Dream Master featured one of the silliest deaths in the slasher series the worst scene in the sequel was almost avoided twice in the movies process. It is not unusual for a horror franchise to run out of creative death scenes as the series wears on. While the earliest Freddy Krueger appearance  1984s A Nightmare On Elm Street was filled with terrifying undeniably original death sequences the set pieces of the franchise grew goofier as the sequels became lighter in tone.


Although Robert Englund Freddy Krueger was still an effective antagonist in Nightmare On Elm Street 4 The Dream Master the Renny Harlin directed effort left critics frustrated when it came to its death scenes. Harlin infamously wanted to make Freddy funnier and easier for viewers to root for which could have been seen as a contributing factor to some of the sequels un scary deaths. However there is another less artistically-inclined reason for Nightmare On Elm Street 4s most comical demise.


In the Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy documentary its revealed that Nightmare On Elm Street 4 The Dream Master ran out of money during production and ended up replacing one of its most ambitious death scenes with a far sillier alternative as a result. The sequel features an infamous sequence in a karate dojo where Ricky Johnson essentially fights with no one while an invisible Freddy beats him senseless. Like a lot of Freddys weirdest moment  the death is silly corny and unintentionally funny but what is surprising is that it was avoided in not one but two early drafts of the movie.