Review – A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

Having sacrificed any claim Freddy Krueger may at one time have had to genuine scariness, the film-makers now turn elsewhere for their shocks. Sure, Freddy still stalks a gaggle of nubile teens, but this time to make it interesting our heroes’ weaknesses are based on serious adolescent problems ranging from teen pregnancy and bulimia down to unhealthy obsessions with comic books and athletics. Other than this somewhat new twist, the conventions of the Elm Street series have become so thoroughly codified at this point that the rest of the plot cruises along on auto-pilot. See if desperate