A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child Poster

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

R 08/11/1989 Horror, Thriller 1h 30m
54%
User
Score
5.0/10
30%
54/100

Freddy delivers.

Overview

Alice finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child.

Wes Craven

Characters

Stephen Hopkins

Director

Leslie Bohem

Screenplay

John Skipp

Story

Part of the A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection

Includes A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child and other great movies.

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Top Billed Cast

Robert Englund

Robert Englund

Freddy Krueger

Lisa Wilcox

Lisa Wilcox

Alice Johnson

Erika Anderson

Erika Anderson

Greta Gibson

Valorie Armstrong

Valorie Armstrong

Mrs. Jordan

Michael Ashton

Michael Ashton

Gurney Orderly

Kelly Jo Minter

Kelly Jo Minter

Yvonne

Danny Hassel

Danny Hassel

Dan Jordan

Nicholas Mele

Nicholas Mele

Dennis Johnson

Joe Seely

Joe Seely

Mark Gray

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Media

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) Official Trailer - Wes Craven Horror Movie HD

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) Official Trailer - Wes Craven Horror Movie HD

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | "Super Freddy" | Warner Bros. Entertainment

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | "Super Freddy" | Warner Bros. Entertainment

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | "School's Out" | Warner Bros. Entertainment

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | "School's Out" | Warner Bros. Entertainment

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | "It's A Boy" | Warner Bros. Entertainment

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | "It's A Boy" | Warner Bros. Entertainment

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | "Dream And Drive" | Warner Bros. Entertainment

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | "Dream And Drive" | Warner Bros. Entertainment

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on October 12, 2015

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 the makers were desperately trying to come up with new ideas in which to have the pizza faced Krueger still exist, and thus have more films for him to be in...

Here we are sold the idea that a foetus can dream, so not only do we get a horror staple of sex being bad for you, but it lets Freddy (Robert Englund) back in the fold - in this another garbled screenplay. Cue friends of the pregnant Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox) being stalked and offed by the old stinky green and red jumper killer.

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A review by Andre Gonzales

Written on April 17, 2023

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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