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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child


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🎙️ EPISODE 586: 10.28.22

The tagline for the fifth installment of the ANOES series reads: "Freddy Krueger finds a new point of entry in the persistent dream state of Alice's unborn child, allowing him to taunt Alice even when she's awake." The key words there are "point of entry" and "persistent dream state." (Don't think too hard about that odd anti-abortion message!) Comparatively, this franchise has always shined when it comes to staying original; building on the mythology without muddying 'the rules' that have been established. But they fully ran out of steam in that department here. The setup is nice fodder for some interesting visual ideas, but as a story, it's bad. There's always been a fiercely independent, almost DIY spirit on Elm Street, but this is the first film which felt like a straight-up B Movie.
Because of that, however, this is simultaneously more gross AND goofier than all the previous entries. But screwing with the rules like this is the worst thing they could have done. We're so far away from the simplicity of "just don't fall asleep." Coming off the heels of the biggest financial success of the original run (The Dream Master) and less than a year later, this felt rushed and was easily the worst one yet. It's still not horrible though. The very nature of this world and the Freddy character almost guarantees some fun FX and horror action and on that front, it mostly delivers.

CHRONOLOGICALLY
⫷ EPISODE 585 - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 587A ⫸

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (stylized on-screen as A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child) is a 1989 American gothic slasher film directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Leslie Bohem. It is the fifth installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, and stars Lisa Wilcox, and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. The film follows Krueger, using a now pregnant Alice Johnson's baby's dreams to claim new victims. It was released on August 11, 1989.

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