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Posted By: CountOrlok at 7:14am, November 13, 2009
An underrated sequel, this is the direct follow-up to The Dream Master, and Lisa Wilcox's character is pregnant with a child that brings back Freddy in his nightmares. Very interesting concept and a unique way to bring Freddy back.
What I also like is the dark, gothic visuals. It's very artfully shot with the twisted camera angles and lighting.
There's also some creative death scenes, with Krueger being his goofy best.
What a waste. The kid, Freddy as a comedian, horrid plot. The only good that this has is that the dream sequences are still interesting (for the most part), and the atmosphere of the originals is still kind of intact. But wow, this is bad.
Posted By: crazy4life at 11:38pm, October 21, 2009
not bad just another addition to the series
Posted By: evil_ash86 at 11:57pm, October 17, 2009
a poorly made film indeed with a plot that made no sense at all.
how can a woman's child be in her dreams when it's only inside the mother's womb? it can only appear in her dreams if it's dead and is contacting her as a ghost.
I still say this movie wasn't that bad with an interesting idea that was just poorly executed. The movie had its moments where it came of dark and creepy but there really was no reason for freddy to come back considering he had lost the souls from part four. You can tell they were running out of ideas and this movie was just to make another movie which clearly shows. Not the worst in the series but definitely not a very good entry.
Posted By: Bostic101 at 6:46am, September 13, 2009
Man this movie could have been so great. Just imagine if he had a kid and it actually got around and started killing people! That'd be kickass! But no, another boring sequel.
My least favorite of the entire franchise, bad actors & most of the deaths are too campy & goofy, the series had officially overstayed it's welcome with this one.
Even the worst of the series is still better than most of the movies coming out now. Although this is one of the more awkward entries. It's really imaginative and the cinematography is striking. The concept is strange and a little forced but the execution is strange and polished enough to award it to a cultish status.
Continues to follow the trend of the fourth film. Just feels dull and ridiculous. Not to mention uninspired. The kid who plays Freddy's son does a pretty good job though.
Oh man! This is the one with the comic book death, huh? Going to have to knock off another point.
The Dream Child is a very underrated sequel in the Elm Street series, in my opinion. It gets sort of lost in between the best and the worst of the series, unfortunately. Lisa Wilcox and Danny Hassle both return as our survivors from Dream Master Alice and Dan, who are now a full fledged couple. During the intro credits, we see them participate in some sexual relations, thus resulting in...dun..dun..dun..the gateway for Freddy's Return as Alice is now pregnant.
I love the intro for this entry. After the opening credits finish, we see Alice go to have a shower, but the water fills up above her head until we see her come pouring out in to an asylum. And this is where it all began. The place where Freddy's mother was locked in and raped making Freddy the bastard son of a hundred maniacs. We also see Robert Englund making another cameo as himself in the asylum, funny how he just seems to fit right in, actually looking like one of the more disturbed maniacs. This scene also setups the visuals for the rest of the movie which to me are just great, really has a Gothic tone throughout, which really adds to the film overall.
We don't actually see Freddy himself till about 20 minutes in after a pretty nice build-up. We finally see him reborn in a Church much like the one where the finale took place in the Dream Master. After Alice chases the Freddy fetus there, he really does make quite an entrance. Unfortunately the make-up in this one and Freddys Dead just arn't up to par. Freddy's burnt skin really starts to look more like plastic rather then sizzled flesh.
The deaths in this one are really hit and miss as comedy is incorporated in to each one. Dan's death scene is the perfect example of this. He's pulled in to a dream by his unborn son, and in this dream Freddy takes complete control over his car/motorcycle. Bits of this look fantastic as Freddy burns one of his own arms with some liquor and uses it as a seat belt (now that's messed up) but his constant use of one liners really put a damper on this entire sequence. Bursting out lines like "This boy feels the need for speed" or "Fuel Injection" and the worst one "Hey Danny, better not dream and drive". But when comparing these to some of the lines in Freddy's Dead, they really don't seem so bad.
The worst nightmare is easily the comic one, I'm sure everyone knows just which one I'm talking about. Where Freddy slices up a paper version of one of the characters Mark, oh well, he was a douche anyway. Mark is one of the graduating teens in Alice's new group of friends, since the rest of hers were murdered in the previous installment. Also in this new group is Greta(Erika Anderson as a weight watching model) and Yvonne(Kelly Jo Minter as a non-believing swimming nurse). Greta has one of the better death scenes, where Freddy force feeds her, her own insides from almost a voodoo like doll, really disturbing if you think about it. While Yvonne's character surprisingly survives, but for no good reason, as her character isn't really an important factor at all.
The final showdown is excellent as Alice must stop Freddy and take control of her unborn son, as Freddy has been tutoring him and using her dreams to get to others. Alice separates her self from Freddy in some nice special effects work, until Amanda Krueger (Freddy's mother) shows up to finish him off. It's a chaotic finish, but everything seems to come together actually quite well. That is until we see Freddy's glove come bursting out of Amanda's stomach, so you know what means...yup, he shall return.
There are so many possibilities and potential sequels that could have come out of this, but unfortunately this is the last we see of our survivors. Yvonne should have been disposed of in the next entry, while the war between Alice/Jacob/Freddy rages on. Missed Opportunity for sure, which makes this the last good Nightmare in the series. I don't really count New Nightmare as a part of it, since it basically takes place in the real world where these are nothing more then movies. No, this is the not the best Nightmare, and No, this is not the worst, but I will say it deserves to be alongside the better ones and is fairly underrated, which is why I am giving this entry a...
This is where the rot started to set in but goes off in a weird 'goth' direction. You really can't blame director Steve Hopkins for trying to inject some creativity into this one as the Freddy really wasn't scary anymore. I liked that it focused more on the Amanda Krueger mythology and kept the teen victims to a limit of 4 after the excess of 8 victims in Part 4. This had some OK set pieces such as Freddy's birth and the Dan motorbike transformation but this is where it started to really go downhill. Didn't think the series could get worse but....
Posted By: zombiefan09 at 12:56am, September 1, 2008
I've read some reviews on this movie, and a lot of people don't like it. I honestly didn't think it was too bad! The night before graduation, Dan and Alice are having sex, then the nightmares begin again. Alice is in the shower, then she's transported to the asylum where Amanda Krueger was raped and where Freddy was born. (Robert Englund does another awesome job as Freddy Krueger!) If Alice can find Amanda in the real world, Freddy will die. Freddy is reborn and instead of haunting Alice's dreams, he haunts her unborn baby's dream, mixing reality and the real world. During her dreams, she sees her son, Jacob as a child, trying to help her stop Freddy. There was one cool part when Freddy is on a skateboard, coming after Alice's friend. A gross part for me was when Freddy is making Greta eat a lot of food at the 'rich-people' party her mom is having. Another friend, Yvonne tries to find Amanda while Alice tries to stop Freddy from haunting her child's dreams. If you love the Freddy series, and teenage pregnancies, you'll love A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD!!!
hahaha this one was intense.... intense by being weird and dumb in parts. BUT still you gotta respect the idea of freddy! Good to watch with people and just yell and shit at the TV!
The most extremely dull film ever what a waste of time. The special effects sucked. He's killing people in comic books now. What piece of sh*t. Horrible film.
I've been a fan of all the 'Nightmare' films - I've found the sequels to be, for horror film standards, among the very highest quality imaginable, and this film, while nowhere near as good as the original, and maybe only half as good as Part 3, is still a decent film.
The acting is maybe not so terrific, but it's still enjoyable and much better than a single 'Friday the 13th' cash-grab sequel.
This movie is a waste of time. It is horrible and always will be not matter what else they put out in the series of the nightmares. I was so mad when i watched this movie and i still am when i think about it. I guess you must watch it to follow the story but don't get your hopes up.
How ironic that this film is centered around Freddy's "birth", yet the movie is so fucking bad it signals the impending "death" of the series. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child' is an abortion.
After a fairly decent entry in 'Nightmare 4', Part 5 feels like a direct sequel to Harlin's film--which took its cues from 'Dream Warriors'. So, we're looking here at a kind of trilogy within the Nightmare series, and man, this is far and away the shittiest of the lot.
Our heroine, Alice, is now enjoying a dry humping-filled relationship with Dan (survivor from last film), and little do they know that riding the bologne-pony is just one unprotected thrust away from bringing back Fred 'child molesting' Krueger. The whole idea of Freddy being able to invade the dreams of Alice's unborn child to wreak havok on Alice's friends is pretty fucking dumb.
Much like the past two movies, Alice drags her friends into her dreams for the slaughter. Whereas before the characters were fairly unique, and you were kind of sad to see some of them go--here you have a stopwatch counting down until the next one gets snuffed. And boy, do they get taken out in the most ridiculous scenarios. One guy gets turned into a motorcycle, another girl gets fed to death (ok, I laughed), one dork gets turned into a comic book... and I think that's it. Could be wrong. Small body count.
I hated this movie. I hated the idea, I hated the direction, I hated Krueger's rubber mask prosthetic, and I hate everyone involved for tanking a hot series. Hell, this was only following up the most financially successful film of the franchise. Maybe this one's failure had to do with Freddy being everywhere from TV to your undies, but I know it also had to do with the fact that this movie sucked big, floppy donkey dicks. Highly unwatchable.
