A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

8/11/19891h 29m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Freddy delivers. ~

Overview:

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

Director:

Stephen Hopkins

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$8,000,000.00

Revenue:

$22,168,359.00

Key words:

dreams
baby
monster
nightmare
nun
sadism
psychopath
asylum
pregnancy
supernatural
resurrection
ohio
sequel
murder
vision
slasher
torture
birth
disfigurement
nightmare becomes reality
fetus
womb
supernatural horror

Cast

Robert Englund

~ as ~

Freddy Krueger

Lisa Wilcox

~ as ~

Alice Johnson

Erika Anderson

~ as ~

Greta Gibson

Valorie Armstrong

~ as ~

Mrs. Jordan

Michael Ashton

~ as ~

Gurney Orderly

Kelly Jo Minter

~ as ~

Yvonne

Danny Hassel

~ as ~

Dan Jordan

Nicholas Mele

~ as ~

Dennis Johnson

Joe Seely

~ as ~

Mark Gray

Burr DeBenning

~ as ~

Mr. Jordan

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Reviews (2)

John Chard
Written 10 year(s) ago
5
Kids... always a disappointment.

*** This review contains an implied spoiler in last paragraph ***

By the time A Nightmare on Elm Street had rolled around to this, part five, Freddy Krueger had long stopped being a scary bogeyman. He was now a figure of fun, a purveyor of one line quips, while the makers were desperately trying to come up with new ideas in which to have the pizza faced Krueger still exist, and thus have more films for him to be in...

Here we are sold the idea that a foetus can dream, so not only do we get a horror staple of sex being bad for you, but it lets Freddy (Robert Englund) back in the fold - in this another garbled screenplay. Cue friends of the pregnant Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox) being stalked and offed by the old stinky green and red jumper killer.

It's all very frenetic and cartoonish, with gore replacing scares. There's a little ingenuity with some of the kills, such as a comic book section that has a good thought process, but once the laughable finale arrives - cuz - like - love conquers all - then you may be digging out parts 1 & 3 to remind yourself how good this series used to be. 5/10
Andre Gonzales
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
This one was just ok. For some reason the kid in this movie just bothered me. Yea he looked scary but he was a bad actor. The movie itself would have been better with a different actor or just cut him out altogether.