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

Horror | 89 minutes
2,60 599 votes

Genre: Horror / Thriller

Duration: 89 minuten

Alternative title: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

Country: United States

Directed by: Stephen Hopkins

Stars: Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Jo Minter and Robert Englund

IMDb score: 5,0 (53.315)

Releasedate: 11 August 1989

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child plot

"Now Freddy's a daddy, he's killing for two."

After Alice Johnson survives her previous encounter with the dream monster Freddy Krueger, she has nightmares again. This time Freddy wanders through the dreams of Alice's unborn child and decides to kill all Alice's friends this way. To save the lives of her friends and her unborn child, Alice decides to confront Freddy again. But this time she gets help...

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Lennert

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Mmm, quite unexpectedly I found this one to be a lot better than part 4. Lisa Wilcox has gotten a little more charisma and acts a lot more convincingly, while the whole goofy character of the previous part has also been adjusted a bit (ok, except for that ghastly comic book death).

Now that most of the friends are dead, there's little left for Krueger to kill, so the kill rate is a bit low. However, this is all made up for by a huge amount of atmospheric scenes (the scene on the operating table, for example) and quite effective designs, which, in combination with the strong direction and fine soundtrack, all together ensure a successful end product. .

I didn't expect all this! With the fourth film I had the idea that the series was already starting to kill with the new cast and the fact that they were starting to deviate a lot from the first film, but here it all works a lot better. Was it part 6 that I remembered as disastrous? On to the next part then.

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Moviestar1979

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Despite Robert Englund calling this part a success, its popularity waned.

Both Stephen King and Frank Miller were approached for the script and direction. Ultimately, this part was directed by Stephen Hopkins. All this within a time frame of 8 weeks. This performance also gave him the opportunity to direct Predator 2 (1990). The mediocre script was written by John Skipp and Craig Spector. This resulted in a conflict between the two writers.

The cast is thin. Lisa Wilcox and Danny Hassel returned after surviving their adventures from part 4. Robert Englund obviously kept the film going. He had a brief cameo without his makeup. Also former drummer Eric Singer of Alice Cooper can be seen briefly.

In the end, there was a lot of cutting in the film. Some scenes were originally going to contain a lot more gore. To avoid a so-called X-rating, these were shortened. This part is by far the worst. Bruce Dickinson's song "Bring Your Daughter to The Slaughter " won a Razzie Award in 1990. Also the song "Let's Go! " by Kool Moe Dee was nominated for this. Miraculously, director Stephen Hopkins won a Critic's Award in 1990, and his film was nominated for an International Fantasy Film Award.

2.0 *

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FlorisV

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Reasonable part in the series but some characters are poorly cast. There are nice effects here and there and a few brutal kills: the feast and especially the speed demon are well done. The comic book guy isn't cruel at all.

The Rosemary's baby gift is barely enough to breathe life into the franchise because you get the sense that tension just isn't meant to be anymore, cartoonish nonsense takes over even more. Visually there is still something to experience, at a certain point we even get an Escher-like scene that resembles the trap scene in Labyrinth (and this Freddy 5 probably also borrowed from that). In the end it all gets a bit muddled and you think it will.

At the credits, just like in part 4, we are treated to mediocre hip-hop, this time with a weak Kool Moe Dee extract... oh oops it really is Kool Moe Dee, that man has made better raps.

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