A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
| release date | August 11 1989 |
| studio | New Line Cinema |
| director | Stephen Hopkins |
| writer | John Skipp |
| starring | Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Erika Anderson (II), Valorie Armstrong, Michael Ashton |
| rating | R |
| tagline | It's A Boy! |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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This was ok, not the worst but one of.
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.
Avoid at all costs.
Not good work for the series at all. Definatley the worst of the series.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!!!
Thought it was pretty dumb.
Meh.
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….
I thought it was pretty good. Nowhere near as good as the first one, but a decent sequel.
No
super freddy? .. u gotta be kidding me ri8? FUCK U director and story writer.. peace of shit .. at least better than 6
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…
8/10
Very odd, but I still liked the whole story line and the scenes were wonderful
Good, but not as great as the others.
worst i think think out of all of them
A Low Point In The Series
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.
I really hated this one for some reason, I don’t know why..I guess it was because of the annoying kid that was Freddy’s.
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.
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.
This film annoys me. I do have to say the cinematography was good though. Only because it has Freddy in it will i give it 1 and half skulls.
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.
a terrible fim
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.
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.
this wasn’t scary, it was boring
not bad just another addition to the series
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.
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.
All part 5′s too any movie sucks!
a low point in the franchise. still entertaining enough to watch.
I love all Freddy movies! He’s funny as crap, i love that he slashes everyone where there is buckets of blood, and whoever made his skin is freaking awesome!
when freddie,jason and michael did part 5s they sucked donkey dick man
My favirote because it has a lot of plot
this movie probly would have been good if I had just payed attention to it, i got lost watching it : /
not all that bad but could have been better.
Bad bad bad worth the watch if you want a laugh or two.
Not my favorite in the series, but it has an interesting concept, a dark atmosphere, and the return of Alice which are all pluses in my book. Freddy’s makeup is pretty bad in this one, and the one liners are almost as bad as in Freddy’s Dead, so there’s plenty to hate as well. For me, a “bad” Freddy film is like a bad pizza…no matter what, I’ll still eat it up and look for more!
It was ok the only good part of the movie is when freddy is reborn and they have that close up of the glove scraping the wall and sparks are flying well thats my my favorite part like 3 seconds of hell yeah
ehh, this nightmare is rather boring. i hated the unborn child storyline and jacob’s character. freddy is goofy in this one as well, his makeup looks off…alice is great, but again she’s not enough to save this film. it felt rushed, almost like they just wanted to get another freddy film out there, which is of course what happened. but, i’ll take this one over freddy’s dead anyday.
Not the worst of the series but not my fav either. It goes like this….1,3,7,fvs.j,4,5,2,& 6.So its somewhere in the middle.Again my fav thing was Alice.She kicks ass and was a good actress.
Definately was NOT the best of the series
The Film to me is soo far the worst out of the series of the film, but it had some good art form or special effects & gore & the storyline/plot started to build up pretty well (As it started out plain & boring at the begging), the movie had reasonable acting from cast and as always Robert Englund was great as Freddy Krueger but it wasn’t his best. I wasn’t really enjoying this one like the other first four of the movie series, but I must at might it did give me some jumps & spooks as the set of the film was alright and the ending was sweet for a Horror/Thriller but not a great one all in all it the worst one soo far of the series (but is somewhat watchable again, when in the mood).
This wasn’t as good as the first 4 movies but it had a good story but they caved on the gore to get the R rating.
Compared to the absolutely terrible second movie,this is a masterpiece!
My fourth favorite of the series. In my opinion Freddy will always deliver and always get high scores…except for the second installment in the series. That one gets pretty low scores.
Good good, Freddy movies are always good.
Much of the same.
horrible movie. the pnly good thing about this is freddy.
another good sequel
Now this one I had a bit of an issue with… So now Alice is pregnant and her baby is having nightmares. This, even for me, is a little far-fetched. We get a whole lot of back story and you would think there’s a huge pay-off coming at the end of the movie, but there really isn’t. This movie went in a very weird direction and it slowed down the pace of the entire film quite a bit. I still liked it, but it definitely could have been better.
I Found this movie really dull and boring.
Better than 2 and 6 but still not that great.
It’s part 5 so you can watch with low expectations and be happy!Not the best but definitely not the worst.Very watchable!
Freedy continuous decline after the third movie, this is very bad, one of the worst in the series.
this one is probably mu least fave of the whole series but again, i would still watch it (if it was part of a freddy night that is!) i didnt like the baby aspect of it, probably cause im so used to him being after teenagers predominatly.
Boring as shit…
What’s not to like? Freddy tries to create an evil baby from people’s souls! Just kiddin’ This is really shitty. If you really, really, really, really, really love Freddy…then you’ll like it. Still, they don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
Once again a bad movie that had a lot of potentially good starting points. It has a dark gothic atmosphere surrounding it…making it dank and eery. But aside from Alice, whose performance was weaker than her her prior attempt, the teens were boring and unlikable…and were doomed before the opening credits rolled. Freddy’s character was dark in some scenes and then we were visually attacked by Freddy barraling down on us atop a skateboard. Imagine Wes Craven including such a scene in the original, perhaps during his stalking of Tina. The side story concerning Amanda Krueger was good but poorly executed and underwhelming. The ending with Freddy seen clawing his way through his mother’s stomach will forever be a cold-case. At least for once a character in a horror series somehow comes out alive.
Not very good, but not the worst in the series.
I’m not the greatest fan of the Freddy series. I love the idea and the character, but the original didn’t do that much for me, although it was a while since I saw it and I probably need to give it another watch. I did like New Nightmare, however! So, after seeing the hilarity which is Freddy’s Dead, I just couldn’t resist giving this a record when I saw it on the TV, knowing how bad it was going to be and it didn’t disappoint.
It’s difficult to rate a film like this because technically it should be 0/10, but the entertainment it provided me is worth much more than that, it didn’t bore me like it did some people. So I’ve decided to give it a 4/10, because going over that would probably be misleading. In terms of entertainment value, I think Freddy’s Dead is actually a lot better (the lines in that are just classic!) but that doesn’t stop The Dream Child from being absolutely appalling! The film makes no sense at all, all of the ‘logic’ from the first one has gone. It just decides to turn surreal when it chooses too! Freddy’s not in it as much as I hoped, but when he is he has some fantastically bad lines to feed, “It’s a boy!” and “Bon appetite, bitch.” Robert Englund is still a ball as Freddy.
It’s a shame about the rest of the ‘characters’ who are the thinnest characters you could ever come up with. Seriously, does anyone give a monkeys about these people? They’re simply there to be lined up for Freddy’s hallucinogenic slaughter house. The Dream Child does very little right. Some moments were just too bad to watch! That whole comic book death scene was one of the worst deaths I’ve ever seen. I mean what the? It just makes you wonder who the heck gave this film the go ahead after the reading the script!
In its favour, the effects are often inventive and refreshingly not CGI. However, that still doesn’t stop them from being quite bad and quite obviously rubber. Just when you thought that the franchise couldn’t sink any lower, then Freddy’s Dead came along! Both of them fit into the ‘so bad it’s good’ category. If you fancy a laugh, then stick it on. But if you’re a hardcore Freddy fan, then you might want to watch it for interest and Freddy, but then cry in the corner afterwards asking God where your wonderful franchise has ended up.