A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

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10/17/24 • 34 min

Thus begins what many would consider the downslope of the A Nightmare On Elm Street franchise with 1989's part 5: The Dream Child. Returning from the previous movie, Alice (Lisa Wilcox) begins experiencing strange Freddy Krueger-tinged dreams whilst she is awake. Around the same time she discovers that she is pregnant. Could the two things be related?

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