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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

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Can someone explain what exactly Godzilla Minus One has in common with A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child? Specifically Part 5, and not any other Freddy Krueger movie?
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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5 - THE DREAM CHILD is one of my favorites in the series - Why does everyone hate it so much?
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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5 - THE DREAM CHILD is one of my favorites in the series - Why does everyone hate it so much?

'The Dream Child' has an equal balance of fun and horror like Dream Warriors (with an even LARGER emphasis on the horror aspect) and has incredibly inventive kills. The movie has a pretty interesting premise. The characters are genuinely likable, and the story makes sense until it doesn't.

I understand qualms with the third act. The narrative falls apart, and the story stops making sense. But I don't see how this could ruin the experience of enjoying the film. The movie's been called flat, uninteresting, and boring, but there are influences of Raimi and Hammer horror. You can almost taste the Gothic atmosphere, and it feels like the definitive horror movie to me.

So why is this entry so hated?


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Welcome back to our weekly slasher horror movie discussion. I know. Last week we continued the Nightmare on Elm Street Series with the A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) discussion. This time we discuss our the fifth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street Series… A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

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IMDB Rating: 5.1

Rotten Tomato Score: 33%

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Cast:

Robert Englund - Freddy Krueger

Lisa Wilcox - Alice Johnson

Beatrice Boepple - Amanda Krueger

Whit Hertford - Jacob Johnson

Kelly Jo Minter - Yvonne Miller

Danny Hassel - Dan Jordan

Erika Anderson - Greta Gibson

Synopsis: The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.

Running time: 89 Minutes

Trivia (Provided by IMDB and Never Sleep Again Documentary):

  • Stephen Hopkins was given just four weeks to shoot and a further four weeks to edit the film. This meant that he had to shoot on one stage while the crew dressed the other, so they could shoot almost continually. After he made it, the studio was so impressed that he was given the task of directing Predator 2 (1990).

  • During the sequence in which the nun (Amanda) is raped by the criminally insane (roughly 6 minutes in), Robert Englund is wandering around in the background without his Freddy makeup - including one shot in which the camera lingers on him for a few seconds.

  • In the documentary, Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010) (V), director Stephen Hopkins admitted he thought Mark's death scene was silly, but being a comic book nerd, he just had to put it in there.

  • All death sequences were cut down significantly in order to avoid an X-rating, including:

i) Dan's original motorcycle death was longer and contained much more gore.

ii) Greta's dinner scene was also edited. Originally, Freddy filleted the Greta-doll with the claw-glove causing it to spurt blood everywhere and then force-fed her its innards

iii) Mark's demise is also cut. As Freddy shreds the paper in the unrated release, his face is animated and shows him screaming along to his cries of pain until Freddy cuts his paper head off.

Bonus Question 1: What were your thoughts when they saw this for the first time?

Bonus Question 2: Do you believe Freddy had run its course by this point? Was the studio just releasing these movies to make a quick buck?

 

Table of Contents:

Movie Title IMDB Rating Year Directed By Date Posted
Friday The 13th 6.5/10 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 13th April 2016
Friday The 13th Part 2 6.1/10 1981 Steve Miner 20th April 2016
Friday The 13th Part 3 5.7.10 1982 Steve Miner 27th April 2016
Friday The 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter 5.9/10 1984 Joseph Zito 4th May 2016
Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning 4.7.10 1985 Danny Steinmann 11th May 2016
Friday The 13th Part VI:Jason Lives 5.9/10 1986 Tom McLoughlin 18th May 2016
Friday The 13th Part VII: A New Blood 5.3/10 1988 John Carl Buechler 25th May 2016
Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manahattan 4.5/10 1989 Rob Hedden 1st June 2016
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday 4.3/10 1993 Adam Marcus 15th June 2016
Jason X 4.4/10 2001 James Isaac 22nd June 2016
Freddy Vs Jason 5.8/10 2003 Ronny Yu 29th June 2016
Friday the 13th 5.6/10 2009 Marcus Nispel 6th July 2016
A Nightmare on Elm Street 7.5/10 1984 Wes Craven 13th July 2016
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge 5.4/10 1985 Jack Sholder 20th July 2016
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 6.6/10 1987 Chuck Russell 27th July 2016
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master 5.7/10 1988 Renny Harlin 3rd August 2016

A Nightmare On Elm Street 5 (1989) IMO The Worst Of The Series - Just Feels Overwhelmingly Flat - This Scene Has Tetsuo The Iron Man Vibes
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I'm a big fan of Freddy Krueger and the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. And every time I have a discussion about the franchise with a fellow horror fan, Dream Child is the movie that they don't like. I personally really enjoyed Dream Child, besides Dream Warriors and Wes Cravens New Nightmare, it's my favorite. I liked the plot and enjoyed the action that the movie had. Does anyone else feel the same way? If not why? And what's your favorite out of the franchise?


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