A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
1989 Dir. Stephen Hopkins After surviving attempts on her life by dream-demon Freddy Krueger, Alice soon begins to have nightmares about him again, in which she's not in control. She realises that he is using the dreams of her unborn child to get to her and she must face him and attempt to destroy him one last time... The phenomenal success of The Dream Master automatically green-lit a further cheeseburger instalment of the Elm Street franchise. The fifth title, The Dream Child , took a little longer to go into production however, as it was stalled by an almost endless series of re-writes, and by Robert Englund’s increasingly busy schedule. The actor was now heavily involved in Freddy’s Nightmares , a TV series that featured Freddy Krueger hosting Twilight Zone -like tales of the macabre, occasionally delving into the mythos of the film series; including an episode detailing Krueger’s pre-dream dwelling killing spree and subsequent death at the hands of vigilante Elm Stre...