A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

“Freddy delivers.”

5.4

1989

1h 29m

HorrorThriller

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Overview

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

Trailer

Cast

Freddy Krueger

Robert Englund

Freddy Krueger

Alice Johnson

Lisa Wilcox

Alice Johnson

Greta Gibson

Erika Anderson

Greta Gibson

Mrs. Jordan

Valorie Armstrong

Mrs. Jordan

Gurney Orderly

Michael Ashton

Gurney Orderly

Yvonne

Kelly Jo Minter

Yvonne

Dan Jordan

Danny Hassel

Dan Jordan

Dennis Johnson

Nicholas Mele

Dennis Johnson

Mark Gray

Joe Seely

Mark Gray

Mr. Jordan

Burr DeBenning

Mr. Jordan

Mr. Gray

Clarence Felder

Mr. Gray

Amanda Krueger

Beatrice Boepple

Amanda Krueger

Reviews

John Chard

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

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Andre Gonzales

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.

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