A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

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Don’t play with your food…Eat it!

Alice (Lisa Wilcox) thought she stopped Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) forever, but when she and her friends begin suffering new nightmares of Freddy, Alice wonders how she’s being reached. Now Freddy can reach her and her friends while they are awake, and the key to stopping Freddy might be housed in her unborn child.

Directed by Stephen Hopkins, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (sometimes dropping the 5 and just called A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child) continues the storylines set up in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and 4. The story was met with so-so reviews and a less impressive box office take than other movies in the series. Despite the lower attendance, the movie was still a financial success due to the low production cost.

The mint edition “me” is all screwed up now!

I am not a huge fan of A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. Much like A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, the movie just seems a bit tedious. The film has a bit more of a gothic approach in style and that is nice. The idea of Freddy getting at the kids through the dreams of an unborn child is pretty cool, but it doesn’t make much sense how Freddy can attack the waking (he never could with other kids throughout the series).

Lisa Wilcox as Alice is a bit better in this movie than in the previous film acting-wise. I still don’t think she’s the best Freddy rival and her whole Dream Master abilities that she adopted in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 don’t even play. She still should have the power to confront Freddy, but she pretty much just hangs around being Freddy’s victim.

He’s just precious!

Freddy continues to entertain. Englund just seems to love the character despite the ridiculous plots. The deaths are all entertaining like the killer motorcycle, the over-eating, and the comic book death. Visually, this is where the later films in the Nightmare series excel and with Englund’s enthusiasm it works.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is the last of the first movies that really interconnect. Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare of doesn’t really have ties to this line of movies by jumping the story ahead ten years. Despite not being “The Final Nightmare” this really does feel like the Final Nightmare.

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Related Links:

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

http://basementrejects.com/review/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1984/

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2:  Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

http://basementrejects.com/review/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2-freddys-revenge-1985/

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3:  Dream Warriors (1987)

http://basementrejects.com/review/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-3-dream-warriors-1987/

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4:  The Dream Master (1988)

http://basementrejects.com/review/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-4-the-dream-master-1988/

Freddy’s Dead:  The Final Nightmare (1991)

http://basementrejects.com/review/freddys-dead-the-final-nightmare-1991/

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

http://basementrejects.com/review/wes-cravens-new-nightmare-1994/

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

http://basementrejects.com/review/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2010/

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