DAY 5 (31 Days of Horror)

DAY FIVE

FILM - A Nightmare on Elm St. 4 : Dream Master

PREMISE - Following up the previous Nightmare film, dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen (who can draw others into her dreams) wills her special ability to her friend Alice. Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power to pull a new group of children into his foul domain.

ANTAGONIST - Freddy Krueger the bastard son of 100 maniacs. My favorite modern day monster.

BLOOD AND GORE - Not much but it is still there.

SCARES - At this point they only cared about cool f/x and cool set pieces. Not scary at all. Freddy was now a stand up comedian

REVIEW - Watching this again for the first time in a long time I have come to the conclusion that this movie isn't very good. The f/x and set pieces are excellent and the best in the series. Where this falters is the cast. Especially the actress who replaced Patricia Arquette from part 3. Tuesday Knight was awful and almost ruined the entire movie. The other actors didn't do to well either. Well Robert Englund was of course amazing as the maniacal Freddy. Great f/x but the time spent to get to them isn't worth the wait. I give this a 5 out of 10.