A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

Plot

Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again…

Release Year: 1989

Rating: 4.8/10 (14,296 voted)

Director:
Stephen Hopkins

Stars: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Jo Minter

Storyline
Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His intention is to be "born again" into the real world. The only one who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son?

Writers: Wes Craven, John Skipp

Cast:

Robert Englund
–

Freddy Krueger
/
Featured Maniac

Lisa Wilcox
–

Alice Johnson

Kelly Jo Minter
–

Yvonne

Danny Hassel
–

Dan Jordan

Erika Anderson
–

Greta Gibson

Nicholas Mele
–

Dennis Johnson

(as Nick Mele)

Joe Seely
–

Mark Gray

Valorie Armstrong
–

Mrs. Jordan

Burr DeBenning
–

Mr. Jordan

Clarence Felder
–

Mr. Gray

Michael Ashton
–

Gurney Orderly

Beatrice Boepple
–

Amanda Krueger

Matthew Borlenghi
–

Jock

(as Matt Borlenghi)

Noble Craig
–

Merging Freddy

E.R. Davies
–

Delivery Doctor

Taglines:
It's A Boy!

Details

Official Website:
Nightmare On Elm Street |

Release Date: 11 August 1989

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office Details

Budget: $8,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: $8,115,176
(USA)
(13 August 1989)

Gross: $22,168,359
(USA)
(29 October 1989)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Did You Know?

Trivia:

The bike that attacks Dan is a Yamaha V-Max 1200.

Goofs:

Continuity:
The graduation banner says "Congratulations Class of '89." If one follows the time line of the movie, this is impossible since the second movie takes place five years after the first movie set in 1984.

Quotes:

Freddy Krueger:
[commenting on the taste of Dan Jordan's champagne]
Bad year, Dan!

User Review

What happened?!

Rating: 3/10


A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child, the fifth installment in
the Nightmare on Elm Street series and the worst sequel ever in the
series, even worse than A Nightmare on Elm Street 2. I was lucky enough
to get the Nightmare on Elm Street DVD box set for my birthday and I
watched all the sequels. The dream child was the worst without a doubt,
I was surprised too since they were doing so well with the last two
sequels. But I guess they just lost the charm, the story was just
ridicules and I wasn't happy with where it went. Alice just became more
annoying, she's not Nancy or Kirsten, so her carrying this film on her
own didn't work for me. Freddy is also loosing his scare, this was just
getting a bit silly.

Alice is back and she's carrying a child, she couldn't be happier with
her life. But Freddy is also back and he's not going to be too light on
her since she defeated him so easily in the fourth movie. But anyways,
he wants her child and to be born into the world again. Did you ever
wonder if Freddy had parents too? Well that's what A Nightmare on Elm
Street: The Dream Child investigates and Alice soon finds out what
Freddy's childhood was like and that maybe that's the one thing that
can defeat him.

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child is just all in all a bad
movie and an insult to the series. I don't think anyone could be happy
with this sequel. Just the story was really silly, I mean it could have
possibly worked, but once again, it was just executed the wrong way. I
know that if you're looking to see the sequels for the Nightmare on Elm
Street series, you should watch it, but I really wouldn't recommend it,
it's not worth it, at least in my opinion.

3/10