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Post by GL on Jun 17, 2006 12:49:55 GMT -5
Rate it on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being the worst, 5 being the best.
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Post by CK on Jun 17, 2006 14:38:00 GMT -5
For me this one is high on the cheese-o-meter for me,3/5 but I'll admit I still like to pop this one in the DVD player every now and then.
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Post by Conan on Jun 18, 2006 21:09:32 GMT -5
I did not like this one that much. I gave it a 3.
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Post by Punk18 on Jun 21, 2006 18:47:32 GMT -5
This is the worst of the Nightmares On ElmStreet I think. I haven't watched the 4, 5, or 7th as of yet.
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Post by HNT on Jun 25, 2006 11:48:53 GMT -5
2. Very similar to PArt 4 in style and tone and just as lame
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Post by Jen on Jul 26, 2006 13:41:16 GMT -5
I watched it for the first time pretty recently, and it was okay. Yes, a lot of it was lame ( I liked part 4, but I am not going to try to convince anyone it was a masterpiece or anything...LOL) but I did find it entertaining. I will give it a 3, that's generous, I know. Probably I would really say 2 and 1/2 stars, but I will round up instead of down since it did try something a little different from the rest of the series, even if it didn't really work.
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Post by GL on Aug 1, 2006 0:54:09 GMT -5
“A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child” may be the weakest of the series.
**SPOILERS**
After graduating from High School, Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox) decides to go to Paris for the summer with her boyfriend Dan (Danny Hassle), but her nightmares about Freddy Kruegar (Robert Englund) still haunt her. A new set of nightmares about a woman named Amanda Kruegar (Beatrice Boepple) giving birth to Freddy make her question whether she dreamed them or not. While her friends Yvonne, (Kelly Jo Minter) Mark (Joe Seely), Dan and Greta (Erika Anderson) are partying at the school when Dan gets a call from Alice to come get her. While driving to get her, Freddy attacks and kills him in a motorcycle accident. When she says that Kruegar is the source, no one believes her. Once she learns that she's pregnant, she becomes even more distraught. As Freddy begins killing her friends one by one, Alice comes to believe that Freddy has invaded her unborn child's dreams to come back into the world and enlists Amanda to help her fight her son.
The Good News: The movie does open with a bang. Alice walks into the shower after a night of sex, and gets distracted by the brown gunk bubbling up from the bottom of the shower. Investigating, she finds nothing, then is attacked by the surging water from the shower-head. Becoming trapped in the shower, she tries to break free, but then is paralleled into a dream world. We then get a few small, pretty good jumps about Freddy. It is a great way to start a movie. I do have to admit that Freddy's deaths are very creative for a fourth sequel. The motorcycle of death sequence is easily the best, but the comic book scene is also quite imaginative. Both feature great special effects and new ideas, hallmarks of the series. The special effects are perhaps the best part of the movie. Freddy's rebirth is the best part, being an atmospheric scene with lots of things crashing around Alice in the middle of a room that feature Freddy appearing at the end. Even though the story isn't a very good one for this type of series, it provides a ton of opportunities for some jumps. By having Alice know of Freddy's reappearance for a long time, it gives her the ability to see Freddy in different places and convince her she is going insane. By having Freddy appear in new places around her and scare her, his appearance also scares us. The way to finally kill him is pretty creative, and I'm surprised this wasn't thought of before.
The Bad News: This is mainly thought of as the FX entry in the series, and by and far they are right. Whereas the first one was mainly based around the suspense and shock, the second on remaking the story with a few twists, the third one being a continuation of the first one and the fourth one based around the comedy of Kruegar, the fifth one is mainly used as an excuse to show off the elaborate special effects. They all look very good and it looks like a lot of money was spent on the effects, but effects driven films, to me, are basically hollow, since once you've seen the film once and you've got a handle on the story, it doesn't do anything on repeated viewings. Effects films can only go as far as the quality of the effects, but here the weak story is the major defect. Kruegar's resurrection is handled with great care and thought, but it goes nowhere and doesn't make any sense as to why Kruegar would go after Alice. Is it because he's trying to get back at Alice for the last time, or is it because he knows he can come back through her when her child is born? It's never really explained why, and that's a weak part of the story. Another part that seems off is the humor. Freddy does off give a few good quips, but perhaps the humor is a bit blacker than in previous or subsequent films, with part six being the funniest, then comes part four in terms of comedy. A few of them are pretty good, but most are simply confusing as too why they are included. These are simply eye-rollers and aren't as clever as some of his far better quips.
The Final Verdict: Even though this is a bit more FX driven than other entries, the quality of the other entries is so great that this fine entry is considered the weakest. The FX is pretty impressive, but the surrounding story is a bit weak. That aside, it is a bit better than you may think and deserves a chance from other "Nightmare" fans.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, some language, a brief, not well seen sex scene, and brief shadowy Nudity
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Post by razors on Jun 7, 2007 17:45:35 GMT -5
Nightmare one was fantastic 4/5
Nightmare 2 disapointed a little 3/5
Nightmare 3 was the best movie ever 5/5
Nightmare 4 continued to delight 5/5
Nightmare five is like a continuation from part 4. I didn't like it as much as four but I did find it to be the most spooky. The whole scene with the pram at the end of the corridor is very creepy.
It wasn't as much fun as part 4, but it still earnt a 4/5 from me.
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Post by GL on Jun 8, 2007 10:32:09 GMT -5
This is just way too slow and boring to mean much. I voted for this one in the NOES Worst Sequel poll and still feel like it's not that good.
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Post by razors on Jun 23, 2007 17:06:32 GMT -5
It is pretty slow, but I really liked the creepy music and the eerie dream with the pram at the end of the hallway. Things like that are very sinister to me.
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Post by GL on Jun 24, 2007 10:25:35 GMT -5
I want action in my fare to keep my attention on the film. This failed and didn't really do much beyond offer up some entertaining special effects pieces.
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Post by slasher on Dec 19, 2007 15:43:51 GMT -5
i gave it a 4. i know a lot of people don't really like this movie, but i think its great, 100 times better then 6 and 2.
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Post by Lazario on Jan 31, 2008 9:13:23 GMT -5
I gave it a 2. In many ways, it's visually superior to parts 2 and 6. But it is at least seriously inferior to the 2nd film. But in several ways, the 6th film also is better. The story of Dream Child is absurd and dumb. The special effects aren't very good (although the "Bad year, Dan!" moment was very cool). The one-liners are so incredibly over the top that it makes the movie feel freakish (the "soul food" one was already used in The Dream Master, revealing more ineptitude on the part of this movie's crew). The ending is terrible (and the endings for parts 6 and 4 were much better, even part 2 was more "fun" than this). The movie insists on putting pop songs in the movie, but they are not as good as parts 6 or 4 (the song for the End Credits sequence was even nominated for a Razzie Award in 1989!). The scenes about Alice being pregnant are so melodramatic it's insane. Technically, I should have given it a 1. But since it's tied in so many ways to part 6, I have to leave it at 2. This film is really my favorite of the series. And I think it's a brilliant film, but the low budget hurts it. However, it can easily be seen as a kind of social / psychological / personal portrait of a young man fighting with intense feelings of homosexuality. Though to be fair, most people only say that because it's kind of obvious that the actor playing Jesse is gay. I voted 3 for the film because of the fact that this was too ahead of its time to work in 1985 and the subject matter was too ambitious to work on such a low budget. And I thought the score was the least impressive of the series. Very old fashioned (yeah, I never thought I would say I prefer the kind of techno-ish thing they had going on in part 1, but I do). Sort of the audio equivalent of squinting at the sun. But I think it's more of a 3.5, because darned if that actor (Mark Patton, I believe) didn't try his best with this role. And that little "blood on my hands" sequence is actually quite heart-breaking. This guy is facing some personal demons on-set, during filming, right in that moment. Credit where credit is due. Even if some of the vision of the film is compromised.
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Post by GL on Jan 31, 2008 11:06:40 GMT -5
Finally, you and I agree. That's exactly how I feel towards it. Cheesy to a fault, the one-liners aren't in the league as the others, and not all that memorable.
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