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Summary: Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
Review: The second to worst film in the series. Not that good. Kind of boring with hardly any death scenes or comedy. Starring: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Erika Anderson and Kelly Jo Minter.
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Summary: Not as Good as the Fourth one
Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child follows one of the best in the franchise-The Dream Master, yet this one seems to just lose the credibility the third and fourth ones attempted to make. The idea is kind of hocky, Freddy being to weak to attack Alice, so he attacks her unborn child. The return o Freddy's mother is kind of lame as well. The good acting is gone and the scare factor is non-existant. The one good thing though is the gore factor. There are some good "original" death scenes which kind of make the movie worth watching.
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Summary: The Worst Of The Series, But Still Quite Good!
Review: 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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Summary: again, good
Review: another good sequel which explains a little more about freddy. similar in quality to pt. 4
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Summary: The Dream Master Returns with a Dream Child
Review: Alice has been living safely with her "nightmares" behind her. She's got a boyfriend, graduated from high school, her dad is recovering from being an alcohol addict, and an unplanned baby on the way. And Alice is going to do everything to protect and keep the baby. But that's going to be harder than it seems, because Freddy has been hiding inside of Alice, and is now using her unborn child's dreams to get more souls. Alice must prepare for another battle with Freddy, and must do all she can to protect her baby. In A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 : The Dream Child, the series began to delve into Freddy's past. Freddy's mother, Amanda Krueger, was also brought back into the storyline. She was used in A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 : The Dream Warriors, but not as much as she is here. She's crucial to the storyline in NOES5. Lisa Wilcox proves again that Freddy is no match for her. Even though I'm not a big fan of Nightmares 4 and 5, Lisa Wilcox's Alice is my favorite Nightmare heroine. I believe it's her eyes. With Nightmare 5's interesting plot and Lisa leading, I believe that it is the weakest entry, other than Nightmare 2, in the series. It didn't have what the rest of the entries do. I don't quiet know what that is, but it didn't have it. But as it being part of the Nightmare series, I do like it.
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Summary: Don't waste your time, or money
Review: This 5TH time around, (Yes fifth), Freddy is at the same thing he's been at for the last 4 films. To NOES fans: you'll probably still want to see it, but NOT MORE THAN ONCE. Don't even think about buying this DVD. I definitely do not recommend this 5th sequel to anyone, it's a total bore!
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Summary: Surprisingly effective entry
Review: By the time I popped "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" into my VCR, I was becoming very quaintly accustomed to the "Nightmare" formula. I had it totally downpat. After all, I had watched all four prequels in less than a month, and they were still freshly baked into my brain. I could usually predict every move the film was going to make, but I somehow still found myself enjoying every entry, kind of like an extremely predictable comedy that is funny only because you know what's coming, but the characters don't (ex: The beer in "American Pie" and the hairgel in "There's Something About Mary"). After Renny Harlin took the "Nightmare" series right to the edge of camp horror, I was actually quite surprised by the tenacity that "The Dream Child" had: It doubled back on itself, reverting back to the days of old, blending in the jokester Freddy of the new. The result, one of the best entries in the series, despite the fact that its director has directed two of the worst movies I've ever seen, "Predator 2" and "Lost in Space." "The Dream Child" was Stephen Hopkin's first American-made film, and he delivered quite a beaut. Freddy is as creepy as he was in the beginning of the series, but he still cracks his fair share of jokes. It's a very pleasant combination that Rachel Talalay would eventually take over the top... but she did it right, too. Amazing... This whole series is amazing.
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Summary: Look for me in the Tower.
Review: This one was definately better than the 4th installment! This one would be # 3 in the series, because it was so interesting. I also really liked how they gave more information on who Freddy's mother was and what happened to her.
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Summary: Boring, but good special effects.
Review: Directed on autopilot, this is one of the more boring entries in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. Freddy is invading the dreams of the unborn child of Lisa Wilcox. It maybe sounds interesting but it isn't. That's cause the thin script has enough in it to make a shortfilm but not a feature. There is no story, just a lot of special effects. But the special effects are good so I give this 2 stars.
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Summary: Not that great of a sequel
Review: I like Nightmare on Elm Street parts 2, 3, and 4. "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Dream Child" isn't the worst movie of the series, but it's far from being the best. In this one, Alice (Lisa Wilcox), finds out that she is pregnant. Freddy Krueger speaks to her through her unborn child, Jacob. Alice must find a way to communicate with Jacob in order to find out how she must get rid of Freddy this time around. "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5" has some good special effects, but the storyline suffers. At times, it's hard to understand it. However, if you're a die hard Nightmare on Elm Street fan, you might like it.
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