A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)

The last we saw of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) was Alice (Lisa Wilcox) sending him back to hell. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master was heavy on effects and light on plot, bringing Krueger back by having a hellhound urinate fire on his grave and then having the souls of his victims take revenge from the inside out. Many of the sequences looked like music videos, which director Renny Harlin was mainly known for up to that point. It also no longer was attempting to scare audiences, leaning into the humor from Dream Warriors and giving Freddy more and more one-liners. To me A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child was always the last consequential movie in the original trilogy, as it felt like Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare was barely a film and Wes Craven's New Nightmare was something unique to itself. It also felt like a return to form, where there was a conscious effort to try to balance Freddy's quirks with a more frighten...