A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

Plot synopsis:
Taking place almost a year after The Dream Master, Alice and Dan have now started dating and there is no sign of Freddy Krueger. One day, while in the shower, she sees herself at a strange asylum. As she walks she finds that she is dressed in a nun's habit with a nametag saying Amanda Krueger. She is then attacked by patients at the hospital but wakes up before anything happens. The next day Alice is graduating from high school alongside her new friends consisting of Greta, an aspiring (albeit, reluctant) supermodel, Mark, a comic book geek and Yvonne, a candy striper who is also a swimmer. She only confides her nightmare to Dan, after he tells her about a trip to Europe. He tells her she is in control of her dreams, and she goes to work.
While on her way to work, Alice finds herself back at the asylum, where she witnesses Amanda giving birth to a gruesomely deformed Freddy-looking baby. Amanda tries to collect the baby before it escapes, but it sneaks out of the operating room and Alice follows it into the same church where she had defeated Freddy in the previous film. The baby finds Freddy's remains and quickly grows into an adult, hinting to Alice that he's found the "key" to coming back before waking her up. Alarmed, she contacts Dan, who leaves the pool party. He falls asleep en route and is attacked by Freddy who sends him back to the pool. Leaving again, he finds a motorcycle which he uses to try to get to Alice. Freddy possesses the bike and injects Dan with wires, fills him with fuel and electrocutes him, turning him into a frightful creature before veering him into oncoming traffic. Hearing the explosion of Dan's vehicle impacting with a semi-truck, Alice runs out and sees his body come to life and taunt her before she passes out. Waking in a hospital, she has to take the news of Dan's death and that she is pregnant with his child. In the night, she is visited by a young boy named Jacob, but the next day Yvonne tells her there are no children on her floor, nor is there a children's ward he could have wandered in from, either.
Alice tells her friends about Freddy and his lineage, but Yvonne refuses to hear it while Mark and Greta are more supportive, telling her that Freddy would need to go through them to get to her, which is what Alice claims she is afraid of most. That afternoon, at a dinner party her mother is throwing, Greta falls asleep at the table. She snaps at her mother, going on a rant over her controlling nature before Freddy arrives and literally forces Greta to eat herself alive before choking her in front of a laughing audience. In the real world, she falls down dead at the dinner table to the surprise of her mother and guests. Yvonne and Alice visit Mark who is grieving Greta's death and a rift forms between her and them. Mark falls asleep next and is nearly killed by Freddy's house, but Alice comes in and saves him at the last minute before seeing Jacob again. Jacob hints that she is his mother, but he flees before she wakes up. She requests that Yvonne gives her an early ultrasound and discovers Freddy is feeding Jacob his victims to make him like himself.
Yvonne still believes that Alice is behaving like a crazy woman; she doesn't even believe Mark when he insists Alice is right, and she angrily leaves. Dan's parents also believe that Alice is being delusional and insist that she give them the baby and let them raise it as their own child. Despite Alice refusing the offer, Mrs. Jordan then threatens her that they'll take the baby anyway, but Alice's father stands up for her. Alice and Mark go to his place to research Krueger and the Nun Amanda. Realizing that Amanda was trying to stop Freddy, they investigate her last known whereabouts and Alice goes to sleep, hoping to find Amanda at the asylum. While there, Freddy lures her away from the asylum by threatening Yvonne, who had fallen asleep in a Jacuzzi. Alice rescues her, and Yvonne finally believes Alice. Meanwhile, Mark falls asleep and is pulled into a comic book world. He unlocks the power of his comic book superhero, the Phantom Prowler, and appears to kill Freddy - who then rebounds and slashes Mark apart like a paper doll.
Imploring Yvonne go to the asylum to find Amanda's remains, Alice is forced to return home; she goes to bed in order to find Freddy and save her son. She is led into an M.C. Escher-type maze before she finally draws Freddy out from within herself. Meanwhile, Yvonne finds Amanda's remains and she joins the fight in the dream world, encouraging Jacob to use the power that Freddy had been giving him. Jacob manages to destroy Freddy and his infant form is absorbed by his mother while Alice picks up a baby Jacob. Warning Alice away, Amanda narrowly manages to seal Freddy away in time.
Several months later, Jacob Daniel Johnson is enjoying a picnic with his mom, grandfather and Yvonne. As the camera pulls away, the familiar song of Freddy's theme can be heard being hummed by children jumping rope.

Tags: murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, insanity, sadist

Review:
Never mind Freddy's return is never explained, this installment has terrific effects, and style to burn with Robert Englund giving it his all, but this series is getting old fast.
On the day of her graduation in Springwood High School and after having sex with her boyfriend Dan Jordan (Danny Hassle), Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox) has a dreadful nightmare with Amanda Krueger (Beatrice Boepple) on the night that she was mistakenly locked up in the asylum with one hundred maniacs and then with Freddy Krueger's rebirth.
Sooner Alice concludes that Freddy is using her baby's dreams to kill her friends, and she decides to seek out Amanda to learn how she could defeat and destroy Freddy Krueger."A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child" is the fifth part of this classic movie and is a creepy and underrated sequel.
Not saying this is a bad movie like most people say, but if you look at it real closely; you will see this installment has the most drama than the others.
Director Stephen Hopkins and (female) writer Leslie Bohem provide a great dramatic story with perfect comic timing by FREDDY KRUGER(Robert Englund).Alice(Lisa Wilcox) and Dan(Danny Hassell) have been living like king and queen since the battle with FREDDY.
The only person who can help her is the rest of her remaining friends and FREDDY's mother, who body has been missing since the birth of FREDDY.Now the plot sounds like an average horror movie, but it's not.
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 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.
First,the pros,the Gothic tone,it really helps the movie feel different than the others.Freddy,he is very sadistic and evil in this one.The acting was good,and I like how the movie deals with mature themes like teen pregnancy.I liked some of the dream sequences,the cinematography was very eerie.The kills were decent,not many this time but they were creative,and the effects were great.Now,the cons,the pacing,the movie is fast,but it's so boring,nothing even happens.The characters,I didn't care about any of them.The humor,all of Freddy's lines were stupid,I didn't laugh once.The plot,while interesting,is very stupid and poorly executed.The Dream Child has a great tone and deaths,but the rest of the movie is too boring and lazy to be interesting..
I mean, the originity and the "specialness" that noes 1 brought can't be topped, because it was the first one and came up with something that was never seen so if you make a sequel on a movie like this, then you just have to make something out of the dream thing and visualize it in a very fascinating way knowing that people know what the series is about.
Some of the best, if not the best, special effects in the seven-part "Nightmare On Elm Street" series were featured in this movie.
Robert Englund (Freddy) has some funny lines, as he did in a most of these movies and the movie is well-photographed.My problem with the story, and almost of them actually, is the theology which has always been so stupid, but I tolerated it through all of the films.
Granted "A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Dream Child" isn't exactly the most creative movie ever, but it's still neat for what it is.
When Alice finds herself pregnant, Freddy is using Alice's unborn baby to strike at her friends.Directed by Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, The Ghost and the Darkness, Lost in Space) made a surprisingly good sequel, which it has more storytelling that Nightmare 4.
Part 4 had great music, good special effects, and a new entertaining Freddy Krueger.
Actually I think that it was good enough and the idea that Freddy Krueger is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child was pretty clever.
I've seen all the Nightmare On Elm Street movie and love to watch people get butchered up into little pieces..
the score was awesome and the atmosphere downright scary to me.the script is also well written with an in depth story, unlike part 4 that was just thrown together at the last minute.the ending in part 5 was one of the best of the series as well, with amanda taking freddy back into her womb.
Alice (Lisa Wilcox) is pregnant and Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is using her unborn baby as a vehicle to kill her friends Dan (Danny Hassell), Yvonne (Kelly Jo Minter), Greta (Erika Anderson), and Mark (Joe Seeley), and he's taking no chances.On the unedited, unrated VHS version of the movie, you can see Dan being infused with his motorcycle longer, Greta's insides being fed to her, and Krueger shredding Mark to pieces in the comic book sequence and cutting Mark's paper head off.
When you look back at another bad Nightmare sequel like Freddy's Revenge, you have to at least give it some credit for trying something new.
Yes, there's the creative deaths as usual, like a kid becoming part of a comic book and facing "Super Freddy" but even scenes like that aren't used to their full potential and the parts without Freddy are just boring.This marked the official death of scariness to the series.
I really had a fun time with "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child".
The original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is still to me one of the scariest and best horror films there is, as well as a truly great film in its own right and introduced us to one of the genre's most iconic villains in Freddy Krueger.
Robert Englund's material is beneath him, but that doesn't stop him from giving it his all and giving a freaky performance.Production design is the most dream-like the film ever gets and has moments of being nightmarish, just wish that one can appreciate it more because the way it's photographed and edited doesn't do it justice.
Apart from Englund, the acting is very poor (even Lisa Wilcox isn't anywhere near as winning as in the previous film), with the actors having to work with an awkwardly clunky script and irritating characters that constantly make silly and illogical decisions.
This movie features Freddy invading the dreams of Alice's unborn child.
RELEASED IN 1989 and directed by Stephen Hopkins, "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" chronicles events in Springwood, Ohio, when the specter Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) somehow returns and starts attacking the friends of Alice (Lisa Wilcox): Her boyfriend from the previous film (Danny Hassle), a model apprentice (Erika Anderson), a comic illustrator (Joe Seely) and a swimmer (Kelly Jo Minter).
Freddy's deaths are very creative for a fourth sequel, which gives this one some uniquely enjoyable scenes as the motorcycle death sequence which is easily the best, but the comic book scene is also quite imaginative as both feature great special effects and new ideas, hallmarks of the series.
As well, the inclusion of his birth and what that means is pretty confusing as to why it would need to come into play in this late of the series in the first place and really doesn't do much for the film as a whole with it being there simply for another way to defeat him when the last one worked so well.
There are more screams and dreams as Part V of the Nightmare series rolled around, a story where Alice (Lisa Wilcox) finds Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) taunting the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child and wants to be reborn into the world through the baby.It's more of the screams, dreams and mangling with some gross and graphic scenes, especially that containing images of the "Dream Child." These gross-out scenes are supposed to make the movie scarier, but it does really wear out afterward as the series progresses.
the re-returning Freddy Krueger" element, with only the baby scenes offering a different plot device.At 89 minutes, it is not an extremely long movie and you might get entertained by a few of the "Dream Child" plot scenes.
And by this time in the franchise, Freddy has pretty much gotten to a meme established in the third movie.Lisa Wilcox is back as Alice, who gets pregnant by her boyfriend, and Freddy uses the unborn fetus as a route back into the real world to kill her friends.
Alice starts having nightmares of Freddy's mother Amanda and the story of how she was raped by 100 maniacs.
The little boy is eventually revealed to be Alice's baby and he is the one dreaming of Freddy causing more of Alice's friends to be killed off.In addition to Freddy living through the child's dreams, we also get a back story involving Amanda Krueger who was a nun before her death.
In director Hopkins's defense, I applaud him for going in a different direction, despite not making a, well, killing at the box office.A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child brings Freddy back mostly to the dark and "scary" path he once took.
Sure there were some funny moments and lines from Freddy (you could probably cut the humor/quotes from #4 down to a 1/3), but for the most part, they made a darker less comedic nightmare than #4.Alice returns from #4, actually her, her father and her boyfriend Dan, all the surviving members of #4.
The unborn child of Alice, survivor of the last film, and seemingly the only way Freddy can still live on -- because babies dream in the womb, right?
Despite some truly nightmarish imagery and a few memorable death scenes, "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" doesn't have much else to offer.
Do not watch this movie for the story all you fans of Nightmare on Elm Street, you will regret it.
Nightmare On Elm Street Part 5 opens with our heroes from the 4th movie graduating only to face Freddy when he starts invading Alice (Lisa Wilcox)AKA Dream Master's baby's dreams to which Freddy then uses as a springboard to squash the faceless teenagers who somehow survived the last entry.
Indeed the whole comic-book sequence is pretty stupid (It looks more like AHA's Take On Me video, yes I know, i'm old) then it does a Freddy Krueger scene.
In A Nightmare on Elm Street 5, his new target is Alice Johnson's(Lisa Wilcox) unborn child, named Jacob.
A NIghtmare on Elm Street V (1989) was the fourth sequel of the financial popular horror series about the supernatural serial killer/ kid toucher Freddy Krueger.
The Dream Child actually is the 6th of the Nightmare movies I've been watching (only part 6 remains unseen...
for at least another week that is), and although it's never the quality of part 1, it's an episode I definitely like.Alice from part 4 is now pregnant with a little baby and Krueger sees this as a way to regain power over the kids at Elm Street.
Alice (Lisa Wilcox again) returns from the fourth film and begins having strange dreams again, this time about Freddy's mother, Amanda Krueger.
He allows himself to have fun with this movie, throwing in creative inventions like baby Krueger, while simultaneously expounding on Freddy's sordid past, and the past of his mother.
The fifth part of "Nightmares" it is not an important film to the Series but it looks like better than the second part.Alice Johnson believes that her horror finishes but one day Freddy is back and she has to win again for save his children life.The Alice Johnson saga ("Nightmare 4" and "Nightmare 5") has its best moment in the fourth part but the fifth one is an entertain film to watch,sure that could not be your favorite sequel but it is not the worst.A little bit of comedy an a good comic scene."NIGHTMARE 5":Correct film..
This movie retains allot of darkness and puts Freddy (visually anyway) in the shadows like in the first 3 films.
This is the worst of the series, but its still not that bad either,,, I believe the elm street series is the best film series out.STORY: More teenagers are suffering from the demonic dreams of Freddy.
If you like the Freddy Krueger movie, go see it.
The premise of an in utero baby dreaming Freddy back up is pretty good, but basically the entire movie has kind of a been there, done that feel.At least they brought back Alice (Lisa Wilcox).
Not only does she try her best to wade through this mess of a story, but her character is one of the few that the audience was made to care about in the entire series.Anyway, there's more teens to kill, and Freddy's always ready to step up to the plate.
OK Lets start Alice Johnson is back in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 this time She has new Friends.
This was the best sequel i ever saw, that's what a Horror movie needs and what a horror needs is Horror and Comedy combined and this is the fantastic result and I'm not kidding, For some new comers who want to watch Freddy, watch this one; It's great, don't listen to the reviews saying they're bad, make your own opinions and why i like this movie is how the story goes, the death scenes, the music score (Jay Ferguson was very awesome doing a music score for this movie), the music of the soundtrack like Let's Go, Anyway i gotta swing it and Heaven in the back seat and the way Freddy acted and his lines.Watch this movie, it's so great and awesome at the same time.Rating: 1000/10(I'm not joking).
However, I should warn people that I'm in the minority when it comes to the latter Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
It follows the pretty samey formula of 'dream demon' Freddy Kruger, as he stalks another load of teenagers in their dreams and despatches them in yet more ingenious and gruesome ways.This time Freddy faces his previous teenage nemesis 'Alice' and her new friends, all of which have a single personality type which Freddy will later use in their worst nightmares.I would say that if you like horror films in general you'll like this, but it's not very horrific (although the – non CGI – special effects aren't bad here and there.
The labyrinth which combines all the previous dreamscapes comes right out of M.C. Escher.There's also the focus on characters, with this having the smallest body count of the Elm Street movies because there's slightly more analysis on Alice's new friends before they die.
This 'Elm Street' Sequel is one of the best Freddy Kreuger films made.
I also thought this films plot was quite good, on how Freddy possessed Alices'unborn baby Jacob, as Whit Hertford (six year old Jacob) did a fantastic acting performance playing a Freddy possessed child, for he was so evil and remorse, the way Freddy possessed him.
Anyway, if you wanna watch a good horror film, watch 'The Dream Child' Part 5, for it is the most unique 'Elm Street' sequel made..
( It doesn't sound to me like things went mommys way, hate to spoil that for you.) All in all, this wasn't the best Elm Street, I would rank it third weakest link, coming behind part 2 and Freddys Dead.
In some ways this doesn't quite feel like a traditional Freddy Krueger movie, but that willingness to mess with the formula makes for an interesting entry that keeps the audience on its toes..
'A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child' is fast-paced, you never know what's going to happen, and the sound is really eerie.
9/15-Death Scenes: This is probably the worst aspect of the fifth Nightmare on Elm Street.
Although the cast is not star-studded, the make-up may not be top-notch and the acting is probably so-and-so, 'A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child' is the second most suspenseful film in the series.
The sole survivor (Lisa Wilcox) from the last installment is pregnant with her boyfriend's (Danny Hassel) child, but she starts to have dreams of Freddy (Robert Englund) as he returns from the dead to use the dreams of her unborn to kill off more of her friends.
It has interesting characters (Mark is just plain awesome, if only I could find a guy like that!), good acting, great state-of-the-art special effects, and a different twist to the nightmare series.
I like all scary movies but especially freddy!
I like all scary movies but especially freddy!
I'm not saying the characters in the movie weren't good, I'm just saying that the only real reason they were there at all was to give Freddy some people to kill.
I'll come clean, the film was so incredibly bad I didn't really care.In fact, there's only two good things about this movie.
I really liked this Nightmare movie and would not call it one of the worst.
Back then I thought it was one of the best Freddy movies, I really liked it.
First, There just isn't enough Freddy in this movie, He only has like 20 minutes of screen time or something, which I really thought sucked after seeing so much of him in part 4.
"A Nightmare on Elm Street 5:  The Dream Child" is a darker, scarier entry in the series.
As I've constantly repeated to anyone who'll listen,  parts 3, 4, and 5 of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series are a trilogy of sorts, having reoccurring characters and a continuing story line, unlike the other movies that came before & after them.This is probably the lamest of the three, but I still like it.