According to Alice Cooper in Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010), he stated that he gets asked to be in films all the time but they always want him in make-up as his onstage persona. He agreed to be in this film not only because he was a fan of the series, but also if he could play his character as Freddy's father as himself without his usual Alice Cooper look.
Peter Jackson's original screenplay for Freddy's Dead saw Freddy aging and growing weak within the dream world. The teens of Springwood would have drug-fuelled slumber parties for kicks, and enter the dream world to beat him up.
First film in the series to not include the little girls jumping rope, singing Freddy's rhyme. Instead, the lyrics appear written in several places.
On September 12, 1991, a day before the U.S. release of the movie, Los Angeles declared it Freddy Krueger Day.
New Line Cinema's first film in 3-D.