"A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" seems confused. It doesn't know what to do. Should it be dark like the first three or lighter like the fourth film? The filmmakers' answer: why don't we go both ways. Needless to say, they failed miserably. The story of a pregnant Alice trying to save her unborn baby from Freddy even sounds promising but there's no drama here.
The film is too busy trying to be serious to have any funny moments. When they do try the whole Freddy-says-something-funny thing, it just doesn't work. The CLIMAX is even boringly unbearable. I wish they would've used Lisa Wilcox a little more this time but her Alice character simply has nowhere to go after her transformation in the fourth film. Sorry, guys, you should've screwed your heads on a little straighter before you filmed this thing!
The film is too busy trying to be serious to have any funny moments. When they do try the whole Freddy-says-something-funny thing, it just doesn't work. The CLIMAX is even boringly unbearable. I wish they would've used Lisa Wilcox a little more this time but her Alice character simply has nowhere to go after her transformation in the fourth film. Sorry, guys, you should've screwed your heads on a little straighter before you filmed this thing!