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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 - The Dream Master

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 - The Dream Master

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "ONE OF THE BEST OF THE SERIES!!!!!!!"
Review: This one was the greatest. It brings back Kristen (now played by Tuesday Knight) Joey and Kincaid who now get killed by ressurrected Freddy Krueger. But as Kristen becomes the only one left Freddy targets her and tries to make her pull in someone else so he can start another generation of souls to have. Kristen despiritley and accidently pulls in vulnrable but dull Alice (Lisa Wilcox) Freddy kills Kristen but Alice soon realizes that she has the gift to collect on all of Freddy's victims powers. Soon Alice collects on Kristen's power to do great martial arts and pulling people into her dreams. But soon she accidently without knowing brings in people to her dreams. Including her best friends and her brother. Alice became my favorite survivor in the series.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: pretty good
Review: A good sequel with a good plot, just a bit short of 3. still very good movie, worthy to be in the series

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Nightmare Series Highest Grossing Film
Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 : The Dream Master is the first of the Nightmare movies to use a lot of special effects. The first 3 stuck with prosthetics and animatronics, and Nightmare 4 went with special effects. Some of it was corny (The meatball heads), and some of it was outstanding (The roach girl).

The story begins with Kristen (Who is now played by Tuesday Knight) and the two other surviving "Dream Warriors" Joey and Kincaid. She explains how she thinks Freddy is coming back. Joey and Kincaid tell her to forget it, he's dead. Welp, he's later risen by Kincaid's dog urinating fire on his grave in a dream, and Freddy succeeds in killing Kincaid. Freddy then offs Joey, and subsequently Kristin. This is what I didn't like about Nightmare 4. They are easily killed by Freddy in this one when they were strong enough to survive in earlier. It confused me, but I guess it was crucial to the storyline. In between their demises, we're introduced to a whole new group of kids. None of them are Elm Street kids, but Freddy decides he wants more souls so he used Kristin to pull one of her friends into the Freddy's dream world so he can continue his soul getting. The fried Kristin pulls in is Alice. Alice has a special talent that she doesn't know about. She's able to accept her friend's real talents and instincts when they are killed by Freddie. The final battle between Alice and Freddy is one of the best final confrontations out of all of the Nightmare movies. (Excluding New Nightmare.)

The acting by Tuesday Knight was, in the least, horrible. I wish Patricia could've come back. The others faired well,and you cared for some of them. Lisa Wilcox, the gal who played Alice, really shined. She made Alice my favorite Nightmare heroine. Robert Englud returns as Freddy, but Freddy returns as a wise-cracking bumbling idiot. There's no more mystery or darkness to the character anymore. That was a downfall.

In conclusion, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 : The Dream Master took a couple of steps down from NOES3, but the ending made up for the whole movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: PURE EVIL NEVER REALLY DIES!
Review: Proving there's no rest for the wicked,the unspeakable,evil Freddy Krueger(RobertEnglund)is again resurrected from the grave to wreak havoc upon those who dare to dream.But this time,he faces a powerful new adversary!

As her friends succumb one by one to Freddy's wrath,telephathically gifted Kristen(TuesdayKnight) embarks on a desperate mission to destroy the dream stalker and release the souls of his victms once and for all.

After Kristen gets killed her friend Alice(LisaWilcox)is the world's only hope.Alice now has Kristen's powers she is a DREAM MASTER.After Alice's friends start to die including her older brother,Alice prepares to fight the deadly killer for the last time.After Alice kills Freddy she goes home to her boyfriend. But is he really dead?WELCOME TO WONDERLAND ALICE! Rated R brief nudity,violence,and language.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Boring, but not the worst in the series
Review: If you're a fan of the NOES series, you'll probably end up seeing this one, but let me tell you, it's the same plot they've been using since the original. It's sad. To the point: to rate this movie is hard, but all you have to do is compare it to the rest of the series, and compared to #5: The Dream Child, it's way better. Don't be fooled, this is still a real bore!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: If it hadn't been for Renny...
Review: Renny Harlin is a great director of thrillers. He's done movies like the second "Die Hard," "Cliffhanger," and "Deep Blue Sea," all of which I liked. I like this one, too, even though this is about as close to camp horror the series had gotten. Freddy is as cool as ever, but as I knew he would eventually be, he is now a character instead of an idea, and he has enough wise-cracks to give Andrew Dice Clay an entire show to work with. I know that I'm criticizing more than I'm praising, but let me just say that this is one of the most stylish entries in the series. Renny Harlin has an incredible talent for showing us something new, even with the contrivances in the script. There are many memorable sequences in this film, and it also introduces Freddy's most formidable adversary: The indomitable Alice. Lisa Wilcox is Alice, and she does a good job. Her character is the only one that really develops during the movie, but that's okay, because we know in our gut, right from the very beginning, that she's the one who will face off with him at the end. And with the trick camerawork and awesome visuals, it is quite a fight. Renny Harlin deserves a heck of a lot of credit. His style overcame the substance in this movie. As I always believed about movies: It's not what you do, but how you do it. Good job, Renny. Without you, this one would've been the end.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Poopy
Review: The next installment was really bad. I really didn't like the actors or the plot. It got really boring at the part where Alice was driving in circles.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Just a rehash of the original
Review: If only the redhead in this movie really was a 'dream master' and could fight Freddy in dreams. It might have been interesting then. Instead she's just the main character who gets to survive until the ending.

Freddy comes back, kills off the survivors from the third movie and then moves on to the rest of them. From then it's all the same. A character fights off sleep, goes to sleep. Freddy shows up, says a few one liners and the character dies. A few of the characters try to fight, but they are pretty vacant and the "I don't believe in you" tactic no longer works like it did in the first one. Eventually Freddy gets put back into the hereafter and somehow we are supposed to cheer on the redhead who puts him there, or something like that.

The only reason I give it two stars is that it has some cute lines and if you watch it like a dark comedy it's not so bad, but it really shows the rut into which the series fell.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: NOT TOO GOOD
Review: This is not the best in the series due to it's stupidity and extreme cheesyness. If you want to see a good one rent 1 or 7!!

RATED R : FOR VIOLENCE, LANGUGE AND BRIEF NUDITY

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A worthy sequel to # 3: Dream warriors:
Review: In this version, only three of the dream warriors from the third movie, Kirsten, Joey, and Kincade, survived the horror of their hospitalization. However, only Kirsten knows that Freddy is alive too, and is coming back for them. She is shrugged off by her friends, both her old ones and her new ones, until the fateful night when Kincade's demonic pooch desecrates the holy resting place. Once Freddy is unleashed, the seperated dream warrior trio have no chance as individuals. When Joey and Kincade are murdered, Kirsten goes back into a dreamstate to try and end the carnage. Sadly, her plan backfires, and she brings in her best friend, Alice to the dream. Alice watches Freddy murder Kirsten, and then murder their friends. But as more and more murders take place, Alice discovers and unexpected side effect: Freddy no longer takes all of his victim's soul power, because Alice captures their positive sides. Though she doesn't know how to use these new gifts, Alice grows stronger with each murder. Finally, she confronts Freddy alone. But what's this? Soul power isn't enough to even hurt Freddy. However, there is someone who can: The dream master. And by invoking him with a spell, just like the spell of "1, 2, Freddy's coming for you," brings him to you, the other spell gives Alice the power to rescue Freddy's captured souls and seal him away from the human mind. . . at least until the next movie comes out. By the way, if you want to know, the anti-Freddy spell is: "Now I lay me down to sleep, the master of dreams, my soul he'll keep. In the reflection of my mind's eye, evil shall see itself and die."


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