Review – A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

By this point in our sad saga the notorious Freddy Krueger has become a wise-cracking, cartoonish parody of himself (or at least the shadowy, creepy Freddy we came to know and love in the first two). Now, technically I think the transformation actually took place in the third one, but that outing had the return of Heather Langencamp and the famous “origin of Freddy” speech to distract us. This one lacks even such relative merits. Even the teenage victims are comic book characters, each with his or her own “special powers” that are inherited by the heroine as Freddie croaks them off and she progresses along the path to becoming the Dream Master. And like number three, this one’s been slightly recut (an unintentional crotch shot from the original release has been removed in this print). See if desperate