Fitting that this movie should have been aborted.
Better than the last one. The baby Freddy looked horrific. The dream sequence at the end was weird.
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child takes the series to new lows, and lacks all of the charisma and cleverness that made the series so popular. In this ridiculous tale Freddy Krueger is able to resurrect himself and return to his killing spree by using the dream state of an unborn child, who he corrupts with the souls of his victims. The plot is atrocious, and isn’t helped any by the pathetic performances. The special effects are also pitiful, and don’t carry any sense of menace or terror. Cartoonish and formulaic, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child is an insult to fans and to the horror genre itself.
"Time to die you scar-faced limp-dick!"
Started out like the most boring entry but the second half was very entertaining. If Freddy's on-screen you know it's going to be funny. Some creative kills once again, favorites were the motorcycle and comic book ones. This one has the best sets or at least the most of them. The whole "Seed of Freddy" storyline had potencial but it was done in such a predictable and cliché way and I don't think the year it was done in justifies that. It also suffers from killing all it's characters in previous entries, Alice just doesn't fill the screen on her own.
My favourite so far. This is what I expected a dream demon horror movie was gonna be like when I started this series. Even Alice developed more of a character beyond picking up traits from her killed friends. I wish the whole series was like this. I also recognised Jacob as the kid from Jurassic Park.
"Bon appetit, bitch!"
I am not a fan of this one. The quality of these are starting to fall fast, but I will mention two things that are great: Motorcycle transformation scene, and baby reborn scene. Those alone were worth it, but man… still not great.
I don’t have energy to complain anymore. I'm tired of repeating the same problems over and over again. I’ll just state that there is simply no coherence with absolutely anything.
Alice is more likeable now, at least. That’s an upgrade. I’d just like to suggest her to stop saying to everyone she meets that Freddy is back and that he’s going to kill her and her baby. C'mon Alice, you’ve experienced this situation several times. If they don’t want to believe in you, there's no point trying it incessantly. You'll only make things worse with them sending you to an asylum.
The special effects and Robert England are super good as usual. Freddy's costumes and expressions are pretty fun.
I enjoyed the killings, they're remarkable. Greta's death was crazy. Watching what Freddy was doing to her was disgusting and unsettling. Her bitch mom wasn't a torment enough, poor girl.
Really liked Mark's death. Really creative and fresh, it envolves comics and a different perspective. It doesn’t make much sense how the character fall asleep though. I guess Alice's baby has some power or something like that making this possible, I'm not even gonna try to understand.
The other friend of Alice, Yvonne, is super annoying. I was begging to Freddy kill her, which sadly did not happen.
She helps Alice in a mysterious way to defeat Freddy. Discovering what no one else could in ten seconds, Freddy's mom's place of death I guess. Then, Freddy's mom helps Alice in a way my mind cannot assimilate.
Freddy's reborning was kinda meaningless as well. But I can live with that, it was better than the ending at least.
At this point I’m not concerned about logic anymore. I don’t know if Freddy can attack anyone, whether they’re sleeping or not, if he can magically use Alice's baby to make others dreaming while awake or not. Or people are just dumb and sleep in a blink of an eye. This is too much for me.
I don't like this talkative Freddy.
They are actually getting worse. Couldn't even get myself to finish this one.
"Bon appetit...bitch!" [Cit. Freddy Kruger]
Shout by WoodyBlockedParent2020-04-29T18:50:42Z
Out of the first five, this IMO is the weakest. It felt more like a poor man's Clive Barker film than a Freddy film.