181 A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Let’s keep going down Elm Street with 1989’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child! We discuss teen pregnancy, annoying friends, the many better movies it ripped off, how to feed a baby souls, self-birth, and why we just don’t like this one.

 

 A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is a 1989 American gothic slasher film[2] directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Leslie Bohem. It is the fifth installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, and stars Lisa Wilcox, and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. The film follows Krueger, using a now pregnant Alice Johnson's baby's dreams to claim new victims.

The film's general tone is much darker than that of the previous films. A blue filter lighting technique is used in most of the scenes. It is one of the final slasher films released in the 1980s.

The Dream Child was released on August 11, 1989, and grossed $22.1 million on a budget of $8 million, a steep decline in box office receipts from Dream Warriors and The Dream Master, while still a box office success and the highest grossing slasher film of 1989. It received mostly negative reviews from critics.

The film was followed by Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991).

 

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