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A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

R
Movie
1989
1h 29m
English
Horror, Thriller
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?
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4.8
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CRITIC SCORE
42

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Robert Englund
Freddy Krueger
Lisa Wilcox
Alice Johnson
Erika Anderson
Greta Gibson
Michael Ashton
Gurney Orderly
Danny Hassel
Dan Jordan
Nicholas Mele
Dennis Johnson
Joe Seely
Mark Gray
Burr DeBenning
Mr. Jordan
Beatrice Boepple
Amanda Krueger
Noble Craig
Merging Freddy
ER Davies
Delivery Doctor
Will Egan
Semi-Truck Driver
Stacey Elliott
Girl in Locker
Steven Grives
Dr. Moore
Jennifer Honneus
Asylum Girl
Jake Jacobs
Trendy Guest
Annie Lamaje
Elm Street Kid
Gerry Loew
Orderly #1
Kara Marie
Baby Jacob
Directed By: Stephen Hopkins
Written By: Leslie Bohem (Screenplay), John Skipp (Story), + 1 more

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jarvis-8243417 says...
5 years ago
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child takes the series to new lows, and lacks all of the charisma and cleverness that made the series so popular. In this ridiculous tale Freddy Krueger is able to resurrect himself and return to his killing spree by using the dream state of an unborn child, who he corrupts with the souls of his victims. The plot is atrocious, and isn’t helped any by the pathetic performances. The special effects are also pitiful, and don’t carry any sense of menace or terror. Cartoonish and formulaic, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child is an insult to fans and to the horror genre itself.
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Nox Anexayi says...
one year ago
My favourite so far. This is what I expected a dream demon horror movie was gonna be like when I started this series. Even Alice developed more of a character beyond picking up traits from her killed friends. I wish the whole series was like this. I also recognised Jacob as the kid from Jurassic Park.
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Acoucalancha says...
one year ago
>*"Time to die you scar-faced limp-dick!"* Started out like the most boring entry but the second half was very entertaining. If Freddy's on-screen you know it's going to be funny. Some creative kills once again, favorites were the motorcycle and comic book ones. This one has the best sets or at least the most of them. The whole "Seed of Freddy" storyline had potencial but it was done in such a predictable and cliché way and I don't think the year it was done in justifies that. It also suffers from killing all it's characters in previous entries, Alice just doesn't fill the screen on her own.
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Narate says...
2 years ago
>"Bon appetit, bitch!" I am not a fan of this one. The quality of these are starting to fall fast, but I will mention two things that are great: Motorcycle transformation scene, and baby reborn scene. Those alone were worth it, but man… still not great.
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Featured User Reviews

iVcente
3/10  5 years ago
I don’t have energy to complain anymore. I'm tired of repeating the same problems over and over again. I’ll just state that there is simply no coherence with absolutely anything.

Alice is more likeable now, at least. That’s an upgrade. I’d just like to suggest her to stop saying to ev More
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Andre Gonzales
2 years ago
This one was just ok. For some reason the kid in this movie just bothered me. Yea he looked scary but he was a bad actor. The movie itself would have been better with a different actor or just cut him out altogether.
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John Chard
6 years ago
Kids... always a disappointment.

*** This review contains an implied spoiler in last paragraph ***

By the time A Nightmare on Elm Street had rolled around to this, part five, Freddy Krueger had long stopped being a scary bogeyman. He was now a figure of fun, a purveyor of one line quips, while More
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