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Summary: Freddy's Back and Funnier Than Ever
Review: I am a huge Freddy fan, and after I saw "A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" I was totally blown away!!! Freddy Krueger who is played by the one and only Robert Englund is just funny, besides his evil ego. This is a must see for all Freddy Fans world wide. I guarantee you that "Nightmare 4" will deliver the Freddy action that you've seen in "Nightmare 1" and "Nightmare 3", as well as laughs along the way. So don't miss out on one of the greatest Nightmares film yet! Also as a little treat, you could go to www.togglethis.com and have an interactive Freddy haunt your pc. All you have to do is download it and then you will recieve episodes every week through your e-mail. Not to mention that its all FREE!!!
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Summary: Good movie with great special effects
Review: "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 - The Dream Master" isn't the best movie in the series, but it is good. Kristen (Tuesday Knight) returns in this sequel as the only child left for Freddy Krueger to terrorize. Years ago, the kids' parents all burned Freddy to death and buried him. That's why he's been terrorizing those parents' kids all these years, and Kristen is the final one. However, Freddy decides that to get to Kristen, he must use some of her friends, especially Alice (Lisa Wilcox), in order to get to her. "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4" is a good horror movie, but what I really liked about it was its special effects. It has some of the best in the series. Some of the best special effects scenes are when you see all the kids' souls in Freddy and on the pizza, and when Freddy uses a model that is inside a waterbed as bait to get to one of the original Dream Warriors. If you like good horror movies or The Nightmare on Elm Street movies, I recommend getting this one.
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Summary: ok, maybe 4th times the charm!
Review: While this is viewed as one the least favorite of the series, this is also the most successful of the series. Its also the one of the best directed and imaginative of the series. It may not be the best, and it may stray a little further from the original than it should have, but hey we're not watching American Beauty here. Its the fourth installment of an 80's horror film. Its thoughrouly entertaining and in my opinion one of the best sequels in the series! So there! Personal fave: the special Freddy pizza. *****
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Summary: Decent acting, but series should have been laid to rest.
Review: What really bothered me about this one was the way they killed all three surviving charecters from part 3 off, especially right at the beggining. To have the series end with DREAM WARRIORS would have been a perfectly fitting way to finish the story. (After all, didn't Freddy's mother, Amanda, say that the way to put him to rest was by giving him a proper burial?) Instead, Freddy returns, this time revived by dog piss, and kills off the last three elm street kids whom Nancy Thompson sacraficed herself to protect, and who had fought so hard to save each other in the last film. The lesson seems to be that you will really defeat evil. You may succed in slowing it down, but it will always return and get you in the end.
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Summary: Its was bareable
Review: I have to admit that that this movie doesnt compare to the first or third, but it is fun to watch sometimes. Yes, the cockroach scene is great. And Kirsten... oh geez, it's not like Freddy twisted Kirsten's arm to get her to bring Alice into the picture. Wow,that part [angered me]. hehe. That damn Kirsten , it's all her fault. I see why Patricia Arquette didn't want to come back. But the movie has some memorable scenes. It's worth checking out.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST NIGHTMARE SEQUELS
Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 The Dream Master it one of the best NIGHTMARE sequels (although not the best of the series). The story is more unique and gives more thought than most later sequels in some film series. The characters are believable and u actually feel for them when they meet their Freddy doom. This film has terrific production values, the picture is clear and sound is great. This film made Freddy Krueger the funny jokester most horror buffs know him as. The filmmakers should have made NIGHTMARE 3 #2 and made NIGHTMARE #4 the closing to a trilogy... but i guess evil never dies...
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Summary: What a soundtrack!
Review: New Line have done a fantastic job remastering the Nightmare on Elm Street series for DVD, it is however the franchise that built the studio. Dream Master is a great piece of horror film-making, one of Renny Harlin's first films, which he would follow with Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and Deep Blue Sea. It isn't my favourite in the series, that award goes to New Nightmare which found Craven in Scream Territory. The disc has a fantastic video transfer (It's never looked so good on home video) and a booming Dolby Digital 5.1 remix. But for the die hard Nightmare aficionados, the remastered Stereo Soundtrack is also included to recreate the way it sounded during it's theatrical run. I give the disc high marks for it's Video and Audio. After all, if your reading this review you've more than likely already seen the film, and it's the opinion of humble buyers like myself that matter.
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Summary: Great cast, but series should have been laid to rest
Review: Robert Englund is as terrific as Freddy as he ever was, and the rest of the cast is good, but I really felt that the series should have ended with part 3. In the last movie, the ghost of Amanda Kruger, Freddy's mother, appears and tells Dr. Neil, one of the psychietrists at the hospidal where the Elm street kids are staying at, that Fred Kruger must be given a proper burial in order to be put to rest for good. Which he does. (Speaking of which, we never hear from Dr. Neil or Amanda Kruger in this film, even though they both could have been brought back to help fight Freddy.) However, despite what Amanda said, it dosen't really put Freddy away for good. It just puts him on temporary hiatus. He comes back and kills off the last three surviving Elm street kids, Kinkade, Joey, and Kristen, right at the beggining, then he uses the dreams of Alice, one of Kristen's friends, to enter the dreams of other teens in Springwood living outside of Elm Street to continue his killing spree. While I thought the actress who played Alice, a meek, timid girl who ultimatly grows stronger and defeats the bad guy, did a good job, I would have preferred to see a film in which Kristen survives and saves her friends from Freddy, or no fourth film at all. In the third film Joey is saved from Freddy by his friends, then he saves them from Freddy, and Nancy dies to save Kristen, all just so that the survivors of part 3 can all die at the beggining of part 4. The message, (not that I think anyone was really intended,) seems to be that you will never overcome evil. You may slow it down, but it will always come back for you.
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Summary: Too much comedy, too little horror
Review: "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" is a much more lighter film in the series that doesn't seem to take itself seriously at all. Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) gets resurrected by flaming dog urine(!) and kills off the remaining Dream Warriors from Part 3. One of them, Kristen Parker (Tuesday Knight), transfers her gift to her friend Alice (Lisa Wilcox) and the killing starts again for a new breed of Elm Street kids. Now, the pros: the visuals are outstanding, very stylish film, with lots of color, light and great special effects. The cons: The acting stinks, except for Lisa Wilcox's. Freddy cracks too many one liners. The murders are stupid (girl being turned into a cockroach? ). A pizza with faces on it? What happened to the sinister, dark Freddy from the first film? It seems he is non-existant in this entry. Luckily, things get a little darker in the next installment and in Part 7. This is for fans of the series only.
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Summary: Freddy's back from the junkyard grave!
Review: Freddy's back for more, and director Renny Harlin, has created a spectacular installment, filled with wonderful cinematography and some memorable Freddy moments. Renny Harlin really did a spectacular job bringing Freddy more into the light than ever, and creating some superb camera angles for him and his world.
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