A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is a 1989 American gothic slasher movie. Stephen Hopkins directed it, and Leslie Bohem wrote the script. It continues the story from *A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master* (1988) and is the fifth film in the series. The cast includes Lisa Wilcox and Robert Englund, who plays Freddy Krueger. In this installment, Krueger uses the dreams of the unborn child of a pregnant Alice Johnson to find new victims. After the success of the previous film, Hopkins was brought in quickly to direct a sequel. The movie has a noticeably darker tone than earlier entries, with many scenes lit using a blue filter. The production faced difficulties; the script went through many changes before filming began, and several scenes were removed from the final version. Released on August 11, 1989, the film earned $22.1 million against an $8 million budget. This was a sharp drop in earnings compared to the two films before it, but it still turned a profit and was the highest-grossing slasher film of 1989. Critics generally gave it negative reviews. The next film in the series was *Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare* (1991). One year after surviving Freddy Krueger’s rampage, Alice Johnson is dating Dan Jordan. After having sex with Dan, she showers and has a vision of herself as a nun named Amanda Krueger in a strange asylum, where patients attack her. She wakes up. The next day, Alice graduates from high school with her friends: Greta Gibson, a reluctant model; Mark Gray, a comic book fan; and Yvonne Miller, a hospital volunteer and swimmer. Alice tells Dan about her nightmare, and he says she can control her dreams. On her way to work, Alice finds herself back in the asylum, watching Amanda give birth to a deformed baby. The baby escapes the operating room, and Alice follows it to the church where she defeated Freddy in the previous film. The baby finds Freddy’s remains and rapidly grows into an adult, hinting that Freddy has found a way back. Alarmed, Alice calls Dan, but he falls asleep while driving to her. Freddy attacks and electrocutes Dan, turning him into a man-machine hybrid before sending him into traffic. Alice sees Dan’s corpse taunt her and then faints. She wakes in a hospital, learns Dan is dead, and that she is pregnant with his child.