Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) by Allan C — 25 Feb 2017

Veteran horror authors John Skipp & Craig Spector wrote the original script of this film, but it was later greatly changed and I'm guessing their version had to have been better than this final product.

After turning in their script, the authors said New Line Cinema execs responded with, "'You wrote a Nightmare on Elm Street movie like Stanley Kubrick would do it.' And we said, 'Cool, huh?' They said, 'No.

'" What's left is a ridiculous story about Freddy wanting to become a real boy by possessing the unborn child of the film's heroine, which leads to all sorts of pregnancy related dream sequences and fallopian tube imagery.

This entry has all of the franchise elements that brought the series low; way too many Freddy one-liner wisecracks that reduced him to a jester, along with too elaborate of dream sequences that went far astray of the much more identifiable of nightmare elements of the first film (not being able to run, falling, fire, fear of dark spaces, etc.

). Stephen Hopkins directed this film and would follow-up with the underrated "Predator 2." Although he has some interesting visuals here and there, the film is simply not that scary or interesting.

Gory, yes, but scary, no. As I've said before, viewers really only should watch the first, third, and final film of this franchise (though "Freddy vs. Jason" is pretty fun).