A year after the events of The Dream Master, Alice is graduating high school and has acquired a whole new set of victims, sorry, friends that apparently don't seem to know who Fred Krueger is, or the fate of her previous friendship circle. There's Greta, an aspiring model, Yvonne a student nurse and swimmer and Mark, a comic book artist.
She and her crush from the previous movie, Dan are now not only an item but expectant parents; a fact she doesn't learn until Dan is suddenly killed in a freak accident.
After a resurgence in nightmares she becomes convinced that Freddy is responsible for his death, and as her friends start being killed off one by one, it just reaffirms her fears. But as Freddy can only access victims through Alice's dreams, she cannot figure out how he can get to her friends when she is wide awake. That is, until she realises that the nightmares began around the same time as her unborn child's conception...
The Dream Child is very similar in tone to The Dream Master and like The Dream Master, this movie is almost completely all fantasy and no horror by this point.
Despite the fact that I feel the series had become extremely stale and lacklustre by this point there are aspects of it that I like.
For instance, I like how this is the series' nod to the power of maternal love as much of the story not only focuses on Alice's love for her unborn son but on Elm Street's unsung horror heroine, Freddy's tragic mother, Amanda Krueger.
The visuals are creative and imaginative as always, and much like Halloween 4 in it's respective franchise, where a child is the villain's main target, there is something very disturbing about watching a psychotic killer manipulate a child-an unborn child, no less-for his own gain.
She and her crush from the previous movie, Dan are now not only an item but expectant parents; a fact she doesn't learn until Dan is suddenly killed in a freak accident.
After a resurgence in nightmares she becomes convinced that Freddy is responsible for his death, and as her friends start being killed off one by one, it just reaffirms her fears. But as Freddy can only access victims through Alice's dreams, she cannot figure out how he can get to her friends when she is wide awake. That is, until she realises that the nightmares began around the same time as her unborn child's conception...
The Dream Child is very similar in tone to The Dream Master and like The Dream Master, this movie is almost completely all fantasy and no horror by this point.
Despite the fact that I feel the series had become extremely stale and lacklustre by this point there are aspects of it that I like.
For instance, I like how this is the series' nod to the power of maternal love as much of the story not only focuses on Alice's love for her unborn son but on Elm Street's unsung horror heroine, Freddy's tragic mother, Amanda Krueger.
The visuals are creative and imaginative as always, and much like Halloween 4 in it's respective franchise, where a child is the villain's main target, there is something very disturbing about watching a psychotic killer manipulate a child-an unborn child, no less-for his own gain.