What I Liked: Still plenty of special effects work to marvel at. The weird baby Freddy turning into adult form and then back again towards the end are probably the two most successful. And the oversized demonic baby cart prop looks really rad and appropriately evil.
What I Didn’t Like: In the previous installment it’s
established that Freddy can’t just attack any old person in their dream, he
needs Alice (Lisa Wilcox (Knots Landing)) as a bridge to bring others
into her dreams in order to kill them.
It’s a convoluted idea that the filmmakers insisted on sticking with for
part 5. They should’ve abandoned
this and simply opened up everyone else’s dreams to Krueger once he finished
dispatching the Elm Street kids. So now
the filmmakers painted themselves into a corner and came up with a messy plot
about Freddy using Alice’s unborn baby’s dreams as a conduit to murder
folks. On top of this Alice experiences
nightmare visions when she’s awake which makes things even more confusing. I need to give up trying to figure out the
rules in these movies because they only get more frustrating.
They tamed this sucker down too much. There’s little blood and a paltry body count
of 3. Not only that but the one time Krueger
uses his knife hand to kill he slashes a paper copy of his victim which looks
unbelievably lame.
Overall Impressions: Unfortunately this is a movie
nobody wanted to make but part 4 was the highest grossing episode yet so
they couldn’t stop. Sometimes it works
out regardless of the circumstances like Pusher 2 and 3, but
other times it’s a disaster. Now I
wouldn’t say Dream Child is as bad as all that but there’s not a whole
lot to sink your teeth into. The story
about Freddy grooming Alice’s child in the womb isn’t a terribly fun idea. Although you can read a lot into Freddy representing
the fear and apprehension that a young single unemployed mother is going
through. Will my baby be healthy? How will I support us? Will my friends and family understand?
Ok fine, you don’t really go see a Nightmare for its
nuanced plot. So then what about the effects? Yea, they’re good and show a lot of
creativity. Greta (Erika Anderson (Zandalee
from Zandalee)) being force fed to death is the definite standout. That’s genuinely disturbing. The trouble is part 4 delivered such
an insane extravaganza that it was gonna be extremely difficult for anyone to
top and part 5’s effects execution just isn’t as well done.
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