A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child movie poster
Directed by	Stephen Hopkins
Produced by	Robert Shaye
Written by	Leslie Bohem William Wisher Jr.(uncredited) David J. Schow(uncredited) Michael De Luca(uncredited)
Starring	Erika Anderson Beatrice Boepple Lisa Wilcox Robert Englund
Music by	Jay Ferguson Kool Moe Dee
Editing by	Brent A. Schoenfeld Chuck Weiss
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	August 11, 1989
Running time	89 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English
Preceded by	A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Followed by	Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is an American slasher film. It is the fifth film in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Censorship 3 Promotion 4 Soundtrack 5 External link

[edit] Plot summary

Taking place shortly after "The Dream Master," Alice (Lisa Wilcox) and Dan (Danny Hassel) have now started dating and there is no sign of Krueger (Robert Englund). Alice begins to have dreams of a young nun, with a name tag for "Amanda Krueger", being locked away in an asylum full of 100 maniacs. Upon graduating from high school, Alice and Dan plan their getaway to Europe. Alice's has made some new friends: Greta (Erika Anderson), a supermodel in training, Yvonne (Kelly Jo Minter), a future Olympic diver, and Mark (Joe Seely), a comic geek.

As Alice makes her way to work, from graduation, she finds herself back at the asylum. Alice is strolled into an operating room, wearing Amanda's uniform, and screaming in pain. As Alice looks around she sees Amanda Krueger (Beatrice Boepple) on the table, instead of herself, giving birth. As the baby is delivered, Amanda clamors to get to it. The baby breaks free from the doctors and escapes the room. Alice follows it into a church rectory, the same place that Alice defeated Freddy in. Before she can stop him, the baby finds Freddy's clothes and quickly grows into an adult. Amanda shows up to help Alice, but she disrupted when Freddy slams the church doors closed on her. Alice finds herself at work, 4 hours late.

Alice immediately phones Dan who leaves their friends and rushes over to the diner. Before Dan can make it he falls asleep and Freddy forces him to drive into another vehicle. Alice, after watching Freddy take possession of Dan, faints in the middle of the street. At the hospital she is informed that she is pregnant with Dan's child. While recouping she meets a young boy, Jacob (Whitby Hertford). Yvonne later informs Alice that there were no children on her floor, nor is there a children's ward at the hospital. Krueger begins to kill Alice's friends one by one as they fall asleep. First Greta, then later he kills Mark. Alice requests an early ultrasound for her baby, and she soon realizes that Freddy is using her child to get into her friends dreams. Alice also discovers that Jacob is really her son. It's only when Yvonne barely escapes Krueger, thanks to a little help from Amanda's soul, that she accepts what Alice has been telling her.

Alice sends Yvonne to the abandoned asylum to release Amanda's soul while she sets out to free Jacob. Krueger pulls her into a M.C. Escher-like labyrinth to try and slow her down. Freddy goes back into hiding, inside Alice, as Alice finally catches up to Jacob. Upon the revelation that Krueger has been hiding inside of her, Alice forces him out. Amanda arrives, after being released by Yvonne, and instructs Jacob on how to defeat Freddy. Jacob, releasing the power that Krueger has given him, forces Freddy to revert back to an infant. Before he can escape Amanda picks him up and absorbs him back inside. Freddy begins to fight from within and the church doors close. A year goes by; Alice gives birth to Jacob, and is finally at peace from the nightmares.

[edit] Censorship

The DVD release of the film is the R-rated, heavily cut version of the film, unlike the unrated VHS. All death scenes were censored for graphic gore. The scene in which Greta is force-fed her own guts is missing the shot of Freddy cutting open the doll, the shot of Greta's mutilated stomach, the shot of Freddy digging his glove into Greta's back and several shots of the family laughing. Dan's death scenes misses several close-up shots of the motorbike "combining" with him. These censored scenes can be found on Laserdisc and uncut VHS editions.[1]

[edit] Promotion

The films main titles do not display the "5" which was used in all of the promotional material, TV spots, trailers, and merchandise. The main titles simply say "A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child".

[edit] Soundtrack

Bruce Dickinson, famed singer of heavy metal band Iron Maiden, wrote and performed the song Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter for this movie's soundtrack. The song, later re-recorded by the band Iron Maiden itself, went on to be their first (and so far, only) #1 UK single.

[edit] External link

• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child at the Internet Movie Database
• A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child at The Nightmare On Elm Street Companion