Just when you thought it was over…

 Day 155

April 2nd, 2024

Does Lori think she is doing Freddy a favor by telling him to go to hell before she burns the dock? You can't say she blows up the dock because, for some odd reason, the dock is still fully intact after the explosion that sent Freddy and Jason skyrocketing into the lake! That is one of the more interesting takes on a blast in the film, but today, we focus more on her dumb line of dialog. 

Telling Freddy to go to hell does nothing for me and the viewers. I liken her response to asking a dog to go outside. You know the dog has to go to the bathroom at some point, or maybe they want to be outside. The movie clearly states at the beginning that Freddy is in hell. This is another mind-boggling choice of words that is not insulting, just head-scratching.

In a way, she is asking Freddy to go home, which I guess is fine. Home to Freddy, though, is stalking and killing the descendants, I assume of those who killed him in Springwood. So, in another way, Lori is encouraging Freddy’s behavior just as long as he leaves her and Will alone. Wow, Lori, the mastermind and stone-cold killer?!?

Funny, wouldn't that make her an accomplice to his crimes? She is encouraging him to return to hell, which, to Freddy, is like being placed in a time-out. Saying Go to hell is much smoother than Freddy: sit in the corner you are in time-out. Granted that it would have been funnier to say he was in a time-out, there are still many other things she could have said to him that would have been more impactful.

Drop an F-bomb, a monologue about how he ruined your life, or better yet, tell him goodbye for now. Say, see you later, or you’ll see me in your nightmares! Be creative when speaking to the villains before you kill them. Being generic adds at least some displacement to what you are trying to convey and has many meanings if the film pre-establishes where he has been lurking around! It makes Lori look dumb.