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Post by GL on Jun 17, 2006 12:51:22 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 14:35:10 GMT -5
Not the best but surely not the worst. I liked this one one of the last Freddy movies to get me to jump just a little. 4/5
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Post by Conan on Jun 18, 2006 21:08:44 GMT -5
Some people think this is the worst nightmare, some think its the best. I think its about a 4.
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Post by HNT on Jun 25, 2006 11:47:52 GMT -5
2. This is were the film stopped being scary, went too much for comedy, and the deaths started to get so over the top that they weren't interesting anymore. This is the shark jumping moment right here
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Post by GL on Aug 1, 2006 0:53:21 GMT -5
“A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4: The Dream Master” isn’t all that bad.
**SPOILERS**
Alice Johnson, (Lisa Wilcox) is having extreme dreams, and her brother Rick, (Andras Jones) and his girlfriend Kristen Parker, (Tuesday Knight) are worried for her. When her friends Roland Kincaid, (Ken Sagoes) and Joey Crusel, (Rodney Eastman) are killed, Alice thinks it’s Freddy Kruegar, (Robert Englund) and informs the group about his legend. When her friends start dying in rapid succession, Alice comes to term with the fact that she alone can stop Freddy’s rampage.
The Good News: As one of the better entries in the series, this one features some great stuff. One of the new things is suspense. Normally, these films are used to having the situation the characters are trapped in drive the horror. In here, the horror also comes with the jumps in the film. Quite often, Freddy jumps into view behind someone or transforms from a person we don’t expect him to. It’s quite scary at times, even with all the dream sequences. Those were undoubtedly the highlights, as each one was a joy to watch. It really is hard to pick just one as a favorite, as they all have something different to offer, and that is quite rare in a film like this, but a true classic is the one which features “death by fire” sequence. It features a lot of ingenious special effects, a great gory death, and several suspense scenes that make it a great scene. All the other dream sequences are great, and they really are great to watch. Also worthy of mention is the opening sequence, which features a healthy amount of suspense and an overall fantastic sequence that brings Freddy back into the action. Also, strangely, the jokes in here worked for me. Most don’t like the film because the humor started taking over from this point in the series, in here they come out funny.
The Bad News: It really didn’t bother me with the amount of humor in this one, but it almost completely supercedes the horror in the series. It’s a complaint that some have against the film, and I can see how it can happen. There are a lot more jokes in here, mainly due to Freddy’s increased screen-time compared to the original sequels. Also, it’s got a pretty standard issue plot for a sequel. It’s pretty much the exact same as the first one, only with new actors and dream sequences. With the way the series was going, a new approach was definitely possible to do.
The Final Verdict: A couple of misstates should not deter you away from watching this one if you’re a fan of the series. It features great moments in the series, and, love it or not, it features the start of the joking Freddy. Fans of the series will like this one, and those who enjoy the kind of films will want to see this one.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, some language and Brief Nudity
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Post by Jen on Aug 10, 2006 13:13:21 GMT -5
Not great by any means, and it was the beginning of the end, so to speak, for me. But it is the last in the series I really enjoyed, as well. I don't like the direction it took the series in, but I like the movie itself, I had fun. I will give it a 3/5.
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Post by jasonx on Oct 28, 2006 13:54:04 GMT -5
I loved this one. It's got my favourite moment in the whole series. By far the best Nightmare movie in the whole wide world. You love it, you know you love it.
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Post by CK on Oct 31, 2006 14:22:44 GMT -5
“A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4: The Dream Master” isn’t all that bad. **SPOILERS** Alice Johnson, (Lisa Wilcox) is having extreme dreams, and her brother Rick, (Andras Jones) and his girlfriend Kristen Parker, (Tuesday Knight) are worried for her. When her friends Roland Kincaid, (Ken Sagoes) and Joey Crusel, (Rodney Eastman) are killed, Alice thinks it’s Freddy Kruegar, (Robert Englund) and informs the group about his legend. When her friends start dying in rapid succession, Alice comes to term with the fact that she alone can stop Freddy’s rampage. The Good News: As one of the better entries in the series, this one features some great stuff. One of the new things is suspense. Normally, these films are used to having the situation the characters are trapped in drive the horror. In here, the horror also comes with the jumps in the film. Quite often, Freddy jumps into view behind someone or transforms from a person we don’t expect him to. It’s quite scary at times, even with all the dream sequences. Those were undoubtedly the highlights, as each one was a joy to watch. It really is hard to pick just one as a favorite, as they all have something different to offer, and that is quite rare in a film like this, but a true classic is the one which features “death by fire” sequence. It features a lot of ingenious special effects, a great gory death, and several suspense scenes that make it a great scene. All the other dream sequences are great, and they really are great to watch. Also worthy of mention is the opening sequence, which features a healthy amount of suspense and an overall fantastic sequence that brings Freddy back into the action. Also, strangely, the jokes in here worked for me. Most don’t like the film because the humor started taking over from this point in the series, in here they come out funny. The Bad News: It really didn’t bother me with the amount of humor in this one, but it almost completely supercedes the horror in the series. It’s a complaint that some have against the film, and I can see how it can happen. There are a lot more jokes in here, mainly due to Freddy’s increased screen-time compared to the original sequels. Also, it’s got a pretty standard issue plot for a sequel. It’s pretty much the exact same as the first one, only with new actors and dream sequences. With the way the series was going, a new approach was definitely possible to do. The Final Verdict: A couple of misstates should not deter you away from watching this one if you’re a fan of the series. It features great moments in the series, and, love it or not, it features the start of the joking Freddy. Fans of the series will like this one, and those who enjoy the kind of films will want to see this one. Rated R: Graphic Violence, some language and Brief Nudity Dude you got that a little backwards, Alice wasnt having the dreams, it was Kristin from Dream Warriors, she didnt pass the dreams to Alice till about 1/3rd into the film.
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Post by razors on Jun 7, 2007 15:00:00 GMT -5
A gorgeous movie. Very funny moments and brilliant death sequences. It's such a funny movie and the gore will make you cry with joy. Robert Englund at his best. Freddie's wise-cracks are really very good. Is this the best movie ever? It's not for me to say. But it's a bloody good one. Almost as good as part three. 5/5.
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Post by GL on Jun 8, 2007 10:30:19 GMT -5
Eh, I'm more into the feeling that now, the jokes are a little corny and this has way too much failed humor to really be as scary as you claim it to be. Down the spiral into cheesiness, but it was good when it first started.
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Post by razors on Jun 22, 2007 15:37:53 GMT -5
True, it is cheesy, but I love cheesy films.
There are a couple of moments which I find very funny and yet some scarier moments too.
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Post by GL on Jun 23, 2007 11:04:52 GMT -5
The chessiness pretty much ruins all the hope of it being truly scary. It's pretty hard to be scared at cheesy films.
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Post by Lazario on Jan 23, 2008 8:09:17 GMT -5
This movie was an amazing watch the first time I saw it. But on subsequent viewings, things like the bad acting bothered me a lot. And they still do. But now that I have the DVD, I can enjoy the wonderfully surreal music score (which is EXCELLENT), and the really amazing visual design of the movie. In short, this is the coolest looking and sounding Nightmare on Elm Street movie. But, the acting is so bad and the writing is so melodramatic that it starts to take on the hokey "possession" angle in part 2. What I mean by that is, there are scenes where the main character who is side-by-side with Freddy during all the killings (like Jesse in part 2) has to try to convince other people that he is real and she is partly responsible, but how can her friends help her... The movie should not have tried to be so sad, because I don't think that goes well with the amazing visual style. It would have been better if it had been more cerebral. More, sort of, Cronenberg-esque. Or more like Argento. They took it from the cool side of the dream world into the sappy, mopey world of sad, depressed, John Hughes teenagers. Without the great actors in those movies to pull it off. I gave it a 3 out of 5 for the style and that's it. 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 23, 2008 11:12:05 GMT -5
I think you nailed it on the head why this one is the one in the series that truely doesn't age all that well, compared to some of the others in the series. It looks cool on first impact, but once you get accustomed to it and are forced to delve deeper to find more reasons to continue watching it, it comes up hollow.
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Post by Lazario on Jan 24, 2008 9:49:05 GMT -5
I continue to watch it. It has plenty of reasons why it fits well into the series. And, it's still better than The Dream Child and Freddy's Dead.
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