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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

1989

Stephen Hopkins

Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Erika Anderson, Kelly Jo Minter ...

4.3

5,791

Horror. Fantasy 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?

	Author	Review
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"A genre film that won't totally insult your intelligence or your eyes."	NEU
United Kingdom	Dave Hughes Empire	"Despite an impressive bag of special effects tricks, old Fred is starting to resemble one of those dead horses that studio execs insist on flogging.(…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"After the genuine interest of Renny Harlin's fourth installment, the series here takes a depressing nosedive into zero-degree filmmaking.	NEG
United States	Kenji Fujishima AV Club	"It’s less formally inventive than Harlin’s effort (...) Nevertheless, this entry boasts a few imaginative murder sequences"	NEU
United States	Richard Harrington The Washington Post	"'5' has none of the pizazz of '1' and '3' and is only marginally better than '2' and '4', the worst of the "Elms."	NEG
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"Director Stephen Hopkins valiantly tries to paper over the huge cracks in the derivative low-energy thrills (...) but the womb with a view concept never puts it on a convincingly empathetic footing."	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A flimsily plotted but visually impressive addition to the endless Freddy Krueger saga."	NEU
United States	David Nusair Reel Film	"Though perhaps not quite as awful as its immediate predecessor, [it] suffers from a seriously underwhelming atmosphere that grows increasingly difficult to stomach as the film unfolds"	NEG

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