{"id":8965,"date":"2017-08-29T04:13:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T04:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:42:13","slug":"nightmare-on-elm-street-5-the-dream-child-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/nightmare-on-elm-street-5-the-dream-child-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So what does one do when they can’t stomach sitting through Nightmare of Elm Street 2? Well they shouldn’t watch part 5 because that’s the next worse one.  That’s exactly what I did, and this will be short.<\/p>\n

Here’s the biggest problem with part 5: a total disregard for the fans in my opinion. It’s not a bad movie in and of itself, and it plays really well as a story from 1,3, &amp; 4 from a continuity standpoint. So how does it have disregard to it’s fans? Lack of kills, plain and simple. They could have squeezed in 2-3 more kills, and this would have been right there with part 4 I think. Only 3 people get got in this film. Compare that to Part 1, which had 4 but was setting the tone. Part 2 never happened. Part 3 ups it to 6 deaths, plus it is implied Neil probably dies and Dr Bitch may die too. Max takes over the hospital. They also bring back the 3 surviving characters. Part 4, instantly kills off the 3 survivors and adds 3 more, for a grand total of 6. So they bring back Alice and Dan for Part 5, and  they literally kill of Dan, Greta, and Mark. THAT’S IT!!! What were they thinking?<\/p>\n

Worse were the actual kills. Greta gets force fed, stuffed to death with little scary lead up, no walk through the house, nothing. Awful. Mark’s scene was a borderline rehash of Will’s scene in part 3, only not as cheesy so it lacked a lot of charm. Now I did enjoy Dan’s death scene, but compared to the previous 2, this was lacking in iconic kills. 3 had Phillip and jennifer’s epic deaths. 4 had Debbie and Kristin’s big kills.<\/p>\n

Storyline wise, they beat us over the head with this kid bullshit, and really, it was merely adequate for what it was. Like I said, you add 2-3 more kills, this becomes a triumph I feel. This movie also lacked any genuinely great music, which is a shame.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I hate this movie, especially compared to the general audience who typically despise this movie. But at least mine isn’t of blind hatred, I have my rhymes and reasons. I wanted to love this, I just can’t. I give this a 6 because it still had it’s moments and I have seen it probably 10 times. Oh well.<\/p>\n

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