Pros: Hm...Kool Moe Dee's dis to LL Cool J, "Let's Go" plays over the end credits Cons: a poor script, bad performances, and pedestrian direction--amongst other things
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child: New Line Cinema Rating: USA: R/ UK: 18/ Australia: M
I was speaking to Craig Spector (a horror author, who, along with partner John Skipp was one of the founding fathers of the...
Pros: Freddy is at his darkest yet. Cons: Low body count, script doesn't break any new ground.
In 1989, horror franchises were reaching their end. The Friday The 13th franchise was coming to a close when all they could come up for their next sequel was Jason Takes Manhattan. The Halloween series went downhill when they ...
Pros: Good Gothic atmosphere, some good special effects. Cons: Plodding pace, feels rushed and lazy.
1989 marked when the slasher craze of Horror films throughout the 1980s was beginning to wane and even die down (no pun intended). These films and their unstoppable lead villains, once big draws for crowds at box offices, were becoming less successful ...
Pros: Good effects, decent acting, good idea Cons: idea poorly executed, not even a bit scary, poor deaths, few deaths
Dream Child was the lowest grossing of all the Nightmare movies, possibly due to Freddy overkill. Due to the TV series and over marketing of the character, I guess people were just getting sick of the Springwood slasher. Released a year after ...
Pros: Umm...it will suck up two hours of your time. Cons: Boring characters, doesn't accomplish much, not memorable
By the time Nightmare on Elm Street Five: The Dream Child came out in the late eighties the franchise had stopped consisting of the scary moments nightmares are made of and began to be more of a black comedy. Nightmare on Elm Steet was running ...
Pros: Visually inventive; action packed ending
and Lisa Wilcox Cons: Gore seems to have been censored in 'R'
and 'UNRATED' versions
In 1989, at the peak of the horror genre boom, New Line
Cinema, which had reaped staggering profits from the Freddy
Krueger "Nightmare on Elm Street" series of films, released
the fifth film in the series, which was the poorly received...
This movie is sad, very sad.I thought the bad sequels would go away for good ever since A Nightmare on elm street 3 and 4 came out but I was wrong.Very wrong.
I find nightmare on elm.street 5 to be boring, lame, and just stupid.
The only...
Pros: Robert Englund and some good effects. Cons: One dimensional characters and a strained plot.
This one picked up where the last one left off pretty much. Freddy is once again resurrected and starts killing people off. It's yet another mediocre installment of the aging "Nightmare" series. The acting was nothing special, the story was so-so, but ...
Pros: another entertaining Nightmare sequel Cons: Cheesy deaths, bad writing
The relentless Freddy will stop at nothing to claim more lives. Severely upset after Alice gives him a minor setback, Freddy's unholy conception and birth is relived through a nightmare that Alice can no longer control. A few people have to die...
Pros: It's disgusting Cons: The person who gets it on the motorbike
Our brave heroes from Nightmare On Elm Street 4 return to battle Krueger again. Only this time it's a little more personal. Alice and Dan are a little more then an item now. She is pregnant with his son. This time around not only does Alice have to...
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