A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
Theatrical release poster by Matthew Peak
Directed byStephen Hopkins
Screenplay byLeslie Bohem
Story by
Based onCharacters
by Wes Craven
Bruce Wagner
William Kotzwinkle
Brian Helgeland
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyPeter Levy
Edited by
  • Brent A. Schoenfeld
  • Chuck Weiss
Music byJay Ferguson
Production
companies
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release date
  • August 11, 1989 (1989-08-11)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million[1]
Box office$22.1 million (US)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (stylized on-screen as A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child) is a 1989 American slasher film[2] directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Leslie Bohem. It is the fifth installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, and stars Lisa Wilcox, and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. The film follows Krueger, using a now pregnant Alice Johnson's baby's dreams to claim new victims.

The general tone is much darker than that of the previous films. A blue filter lighting technique is used in most of the scenes. It is one of the final slasher films released in the 1980s.

The Dream Child was released on August 11, 1989, and grossed $22.1 million on a budget of $8 million, a steep decline in box office receipts from Dream Warriors and The Dream Master, though still a box office success and the highest-grossing slasher film of 1989. It received mixed to negative reviews from critics.

The film was followed by Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991).

  1. ^ A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ Fujishima, Kenji (January 14, 2016). "Revisiting all 8 of Freddy's nightmares, the richest of the slasher franchises". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on January 15, 2016. Retrieved April 1, 2017.