"Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" takes place about a year after the fourth. Dan and Alice have graduated from Springwood and are planing to have a life together. However Freddy has come back and it is some how killing Alice's friends even though she's not asleep (because originally he would use her to pull her friends in). Alice must now find out how Freddy is doing it and how to stop him.
Alice is still not the best leading woman but she does an ok job. Her friends Greta, Mark and Yvonne are all likeable as well. Of course Robert Englund is still brilliant as the Evil Mastermind himself, Freddy. My favorite of the teenage cast is Dan, he's the guy thats there for his girl and wants her to be happy.
The plot of this one is a little....odd. See (SPOILER ALERT) Freddy is using Alice's baby to pull her friends into the dream world. I guess it makes sense for her baby to inherit her power. Freddy is also feeding the souls of her dead friends to her baby and he plans to be reborn through this child. Kind of a neat idea but totally weird (SPOILER ALERT END).
This film lacks a certain heart that the others have had. Especially in the kills. The best in the film is when Dan is set on the chopping block. His motor cycle begins fusing to it and turning him into a cyborg. The effects in this scene are wicked. However the other two deaths lack in that jaw dropping effect the other movies have had. While the death of the comicbook geek Mark is amusing it's not all that scary. So be careful comicbook fans, you might live for comic books but dont fall asleep next to one in less you want to die for them to. The third kill is Greta (who actually dies before Mark) who is force fed by Freddy and chokes to death. Although it's neat that Freddy used her fear of weight gain against her there could of been a better way for him to do it then just craming her mouthful of food and saying "You are what you eat!"
It is this film that begins the decline of the series and although entertaining it's lacking in magic. It's still better then Nightmare 2.
I give "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" a C+
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