Sunday, November 15, 2015

Movie Reviews #42 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Plot: Freddy is haunting a pregnant Alice by getting into her unborn son’s dreams.

Review: For A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, I said that Freddy’s resurrection scene was one of the most ridiculous I’d ever seen. The resurrection scene in this movie… I can’t even explain what happened! It had something to do with a mutant baby Freddy. I don’t know where it came from.

            Freddy continued his downward spiral into comedic relief. He had multiple one-liners for each of his kills. The body count was not high in this movie though. Some of the kills were good, one in particular, the gluttonous death of a model, was not.

The story itself had some elements that worked, like Alice’s father becoming a better person. The main mission to find the remains of Freddy’s mother because her spirit was the only thing that could stop him, was really far-fetched. We’ve seen her spirit in previous movies and she never mentioned any of that. It also feels weird that Alice had a new group of friends to replace all the ones who got killed in the last movie. She got over that quickly!

            Overall, it didn’t feel like much effort was put into the movie. Other than the makeup effects, which were superb, nothing else felt like it was thought through and in the end the plot was messy.


Score: 5.5/10

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