FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
“Kids…always a disappointment.”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, mental illness, pregnancy, teen pregnancy, body changes in pregnancy.
You don’t usually expect the worst film of a horror franchise to be followed with one of the most unique entries, but Freddy Knife Hands is a fickle series of movies. It’s a stretch to call this movie “good,” but it’s one of the most visually interesting and cohesive entries since the original 1984 film. Stephen Hopkins has truly interesting, fascinating ideas of body horror and trauma along with some of the biggest stakes we’ve seen so far for Freddy himself. Alas, someone forgot to tell the writers that’s what we were doing, because the dialogue and the story wholesale misses the part of the story that would really make this movie great, and instead we’re left to wonder what might have been. We discuss A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “Take Your Daughter to the Slaughter,” written and performed by Bruce Dickinson. Copyright 1989 Zomba Recording Corporation; New Line Cinema Corporation.
Excerpt taken from “I’m Awake Now” written and performed by Goo Goo Dolls. Copyright 1991 Metal Blade Records Inc.; Select Records; New Line Cinema Corporation.
