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3.0 out of 5 stars
The Worst Of The Series, But Still Quite Good!, July 13, 2001
A Nightmare On Elm Street The Dream Child, the fifth of the series, begins with our heroin, Alice (Lisa Wilcox, returning from the fourth film) taking a shower after a romantic night with her boyfreind, Dan (Danny Hassal, also returning from the fourth film). She has a horrible nightmare of Amanda Krueger being locked in the asylum with the inmates, who rape her. Alice is diturbed by this incident, but Dan tells her it's no big deal. She starts to forget about it, until that night, when walking to work, she has another nightmare, and this time it's about Freddy, himself! So, Krueger's back! But how? He's somehow getting to her freinds and killing them off, even though Alice is awake! How's he doing it? Well, that romantic night with Dan made baby, who's slowly growing in her stomach. Baby's spend almost 75 to 80 percent of their day in sleep, so Freddy has found the simplest way to get into the teens dreams! Alice says "NO" to the thought of abortion, but now her freinds are all dropping like flies! How can she save them? The answer is in Amanda Krueger, who's soul is stuck in the old, closed down, asylum. Alice must race against time to find her and free her soul, because everyone's life is depending on it! Part 5 is not my favorite NOES (Nightmare On Elm Street) film. It's actually my least favorite, but it's still quite good. Lisa Wilcox is great as Alice, and Mr. Robert Englund still hasn't forgotten how to play Freddy. It's at this point Freddy is now Eddie Murphy. It started with Part 4. Freddy now has lost all ability to scare, and I don't think he's trying to anymore. He's pretty funny in this wacky entry, however. Some good jokes ("Put your petal to the metal, Dan!") and witty dialouge make it much better. Whitby Heartford (did I spell that right) has a small, but important role as Jacob. Heartferd would go on to have a very small part in Jurrasic Park (he's the kid who comments about the dinosour bones on the computer as being "Not very scary, but more like a six foot turkey"). He's a talented young actor, though. The movie has a very dreamy feeling, and the scene with Greta at a dinner party is the dreamiest any scene from a series has gotton! The DVD is great, dispite lack of features. Most of us fans know that the features are in the bonus disk in the box set (which I bought, and loved) but the picture on the disk is clean, pretty much flawless, and the sound can beat the stereo by miles. Just go and swith the two sounds, Stereo and 5.1 surround, around to notice the difference. Great sound! As is usual, you get "Jump to a nightmare", which I rarely use, and the production notes (interesting), as well as standard scene selection and english subtitles. For DVD-Rom you get a trivia game, the whole script, and links to online websites. Only dissipointment with this disk is it's not the unrated version, but instead, the R-Rated version. I have the unrated version on an old tape, and while there's not to much difference, I would have thought they'd use the uncut version. The only differences are a much more gruesome deathe sequence for poor Dan. His face is shown being ripped off and a needle comes from behind his seat to stab him. Also, Greta's death is a tad longer. Freddy scoops some food out of a hole in her stomach and says "You are what you eat". That line is in the theatrical version, but makes more sense with that shot in there. All in all, I recommend this entry. It may be the weakest, but it's still darn enjoyable! Please vote for me if you found my reveiw of any help. Thanks a lot!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very good gothic horror drama, September 5, 2007
The Dream Child actually has a plot and is one of the best nightmare on elm streets! I am surprised by that because the 4th installment had no plot at all and most people gave that movie great reviews. Anyways, this is a huge improvement over that tame movie.
The Dream child reminds me much more of Jim Henson's Labryinth than the 4th one which had a few scenes similar to that movie. This movie is not a dark comedy like most of the other sequels. This is a horror drama with some grotesque deaths and violence. The visual effects are creepy, well done, and really cool. The score is also really good.
Overall this film has a more gothic and morose tone to it. Some of the movie takes place inside a labyrinthine church asylum. The acting is also really good which makes this movie seem all the more scary. Some of the deaths in this movie are pretty creative and somewhat over the top.
This is a good horror drama and it is not campy at all, although Freddy does say his one-liners but this time he says it with malice.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This Shows Why We Edit Films, But It's Still A Decent Sequel, August 10, 2004
This movie picks up only about a year after the other movie left off, and much to most people's surprise, it does seem to deliver another good installment, so why was it not that well liked? The answer: pacing. The script was obviously very long-winded and it seems that among the crew members that should help this get cut down to interesting (producer, director, editor) no one seemed to be able to work out these kinks. The result is a nice addition to the Freddy collection, but unfortunately you may find yourself halfway to dreamland yourself while you wait for the plot to unfold.
Alice and Dan return from the previous movie, deeply in love with eachother and celebrating their high school graduation. Things seem to be moving along great except that Alice keeps getting little hints that Freddy might be trying to come back. For some reason this idea is proposterous and even if it was possible, the first death (which happens to be Dan's) occurs while both Alice and Dan are awake! While Alice tries to discover how Freddy can be working without anyone being asleep, her friends begin to yet again become victims of Freddy. Eventually Alice discovers that she is pregnant and when her unborn child sleeps, Freddy is free to enter Alice's world and attack her friends. Now Alice has to figure out how she can defeat Kruger while also preventing her unborn son from becoming his prodigy in the process.
This movie did have an incredible feel to it, and although I have no idea who the Art Director was, I do tip my hat to them. The look has this dark gothic feel to it whenever her child begins to dream. I also liked the seemingly obvious planning involved in the sets as they all tend to transform from normal to creepy with the greatest of ease. The performances don't really lack, with none of the acting coming off as humerous, and Robert England delivers another great performance as Freddy Kruger. I also liked the attempt they made at making this movie a little more scary than the previous film had been. My only real complaint deals with the pacing, many people will tune out because it just takes to long for the movie to progress. Because the writer didn't want to reveal that Alice's child is the cause of the whole situation until later, you wander through the first half of the film with a puzzled look.
The DVD gets a little bit of an upgrade with special features. The movie is presented in widescreen and I'm happy to see the 5.1 although by this point it's expected. The DVD-ROM features add the script and trivia questions and of course we have our "Jump To A Dream" sequence. In conclusion, this movie was visually stunning, but the writing was paced so slowly that the 89 mins the movie lasts feels more like two hours! I think the script was really skimpy in actual plot that it had to be filled with fluffer back story on Amanda Kruger which I don't really care about at this point. If you like the series, and especially if you liked Part 4, check this one out. Otherwise, this is not of the most show off posibilities in the series.
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