A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream… A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
1989 Directed by Stephen Hopkins
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Now Freddy’s a daddy, he’s killing for two.
Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His intention is to be "born again" into the real world. The only one who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son?
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After two solid previous sequels comes The Dream Child- or as it should be called, The Dream Turd.
I want so badly to like this film because the lovely Alice graces us with her presence yet again, but I CAN'T. Bless her for saving the film a little bit, because it's the only thing that stops me from disliking it as much as the loathsome Freddy's Revenge.
The whole movie feels cartoonish and is filled with unnecessary subplots- eating disorders, overbearing parents, awkward graduation photoshoots, etc. It's considerably darker than Dream Master, but not in a good way. The Dream Child felt like an episode of that tv show "Are You Afraid of the Dark", with a special guest appearance… -
Aside from the comic book kill, I found this installment of the series to be rather dull. This time Freddy's back to knock off Alice's friends (seriously guys, stop hanging out with this girl!) one by one through the dreams of her unborn son. Alice must find Krueger's mother Amanda to help stop the madness.
I'd put this up there with Freddy's Revenge. Bloody awful.
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Painfully cartoonish and very limp, this should have been the most horrific yet but was probably the worst of the series.
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The comedy is so tiring -_-
Not only because it's more stupid than funny, but I'm so unbelievably tired of cringe-worthy punch lines and bad dialogue. Enduring lines such as: "Faster than a bastard maniac! More powerful than a loco-madman! It's...Super Freddy!" while watching him transform himself into wearing a Flash-like costume to battle it out with a comic-book nerd, is inhumanly cruel. But oooh no, it doesn't stop here, because after killing the poor boy with his superpowers, he takes on a proper superhero stance, and utters the words: "Told you comic books were bad for you!" Kill.Me.Now.
So we have bad writing, and if only it would stop at that, but it's not only succeeding at getting my… -
This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Bon appetit, bitch!
Freddy's back and this time he's all about teen pregnancy, abortions and eating disorders. Sure the plot is getting pretty convoluted the harder they try to justify bringing Freddy back, and desperate attempts to explain events rob the film of its scares, but the stakes get pretty high in this film and its enough to keep it jolting along.
An absolutely stunning opening sequence fired my hopes for a worthy horror. The subtle suggestion of an incestuous rape fantasy takes Freddy's character to a whole new level of insanity, and his mother issues give his otherwise one-note persona an intriguing hint of frailty. A nice little riff on the obligatory horror-shower scene also suggests that there is…
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I still love Freddy, but man o man, this movie is just horrible.
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The comedy is so tiring -_-
Not only because it's more stupid than funny, but I'm so unbelievably tired of cringe-worthy punch lines and bad dialogue. Enduring lines such as: "Faster than a bastard maniac! More powerful than a loco-madman! It's...Super Freddy!" while watching him transform himself into wearing a Flash-like costume to battle it out with a comic-book nerd, is inhumanly cruel. But oooh no, it doesn't stop here, because after killing the poor boy with his superpowers, he takes on a proper superhero stance, and utters the words: "Told you comic books were bad for you!" Kill.Me.Now.
So we have bad writing, and if only it would stop at that, but it's not only succeeding at getting my… -
This is the lowest point in the series. Watching it now on Bluray is kinda surprising because there's some lovely use of colors and some pretty crazy sets I never noticed before. Yet, the script is a dog. Whilst it does do some interesting things with the Mythos and the theme of unexpected teenage pregnancy is fruitful for a horror movie, by this stage the whole Freddy concept seems tired. It's time to put the Nightmare to sleep. I guess the best death in this one was the girl who choked to death after the binge eating dream, only because it's the one I've always remembered the most
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I actually watched this before THE DREAM MASTER because my local video rental store (yes, I still rent physical media, fuck you) didn't have it and I am going somewhere in two weeks and I have to finish this series before I go and I didn't want to put off watching the other ones before I got around to part 4. So it might just be that THE DREAM CHILD would make total sense if I had seen the previous film, but my intuition tells me that is not the case. It tells me that this is a horrible movie.
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Lame. I assumed this would be the series' nadir until...
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Well...my Elm Street rewatch-athon has revealed a surprise. Unless I have an especially low budget and cheesy hole in my memory, I had not seen Chapter 5 until now!
Even though Freddy is even more of a goofball than last time...and it seems to have been made for less money than my lunch today cost...this is a huge step up on the last film.
The general tone of the film is so much darker, it covers things such as unwanted pregnancy...abortion...plus a child is used in the story much more than previously (even though that kid is far creepier when he is 'normal' than when he is 'freddy-fied' later on) aswell as having a cool nod to the "bastard son…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Not as bad as people make it out to be, but definitely a step down from Dream Master as Alice is now pregnant and there are only 3 kills and not very creative ones at that in this film.
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Holy Christ that was god awful. I am a comic fan and a horror fan but the whole comicbook sequence is brutal. Freddy is not scary in the least here. He is so bad and the comedy aspect is just terrible. This movie could be summed up by the song that plays during the end credits. If you have the movie give it a listen. It is quite a treat.