Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - Das Trauma

this one gets an "Average" slapped on it.....the material is getting old here now....saw this one as a double feature at a drive in...the film is o.k...still fred chasing unlucky teens..slashin em..and spoutin off one liners.....definitely a weaker film than the first 4..

however, its still fun ....and maintains that creepy, "ooooh its fred krueger,and hes back in my dreams again" vibe..but not as creative as the others. If a die hard fan like myself, you'll still shell out cash for it....

The series continues it descent with this the 5th chapter of the Nightmare series. Freddy is still great! Lisa Wilcox is still fine! But something is missing, I really don't know what it is but you can feel it.

While Dream Child is a step below the others, it is not as bad as other make you believe. There is the interesting backstory of Amanda Krueger (Freddy's mother) and the den of 100 lunatic's. Worth a look, but don't expect alot.

Pros: Englund is still the man -- Cons: Freddy baby, oh my lord -- Bottom Line: 6/10.

Never mind Freddy's return is never explained, this installment has terrific effects, and style to burn with Robert Englund giving it his all, but this series is getting old fast. In this entry, Freddy (Englund) is trying to control the unborn child of part four's survivor and murdering all her friends in the process. The black and white sequence is a highlight. Unrated; Extreme Graphic Violence, Sexual Situations, Profanity, and Brief Nudity.

Some of the best, if not the best, special effects in the seven-part "Nightmare On Elm Street" series were featured in this movie. They are good and they are clever.

The teens in here are still annoying and profane but not to the degree they are in most of the "Freddy" films. There are some real "hotties" in here, too. The ridiculous part is that all these "teens" look about 25 years old (which they probably are). Robert Englund (Freddy) has some funny lines, as he did in a most of these movies and the movie is well-photographed.

My problem with the story, and almost of them actually, is the theology which has always been so stupid, but I tolerated it through all of the films. But here, to a show a book in the beginning of the film that says "Christian Mythology," is a real cheap shot and going too far. This pagan propaganda was heavy in this film, which is really only worthwhile for the inventive special-effects.

There are more screams and dreams as Part V of the Nightmare series rolled around, a story where Alice (Lisa Wilcox) finds Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) taunting the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child and wants to be reborn into the world through the baby.

It's more of the screams, dreams and mangling with some gross and graphic scenes, especially that containing images of the "Dream Child." These gross-out scenes are supposed to make the movie scarier, but it does really wear out afterward as the series progresses. There is really not much character development, suspense and thrilling sequences. It's basically a continuation of the same "kids vs. the re-returning Freddy Krueger" element, with only the baby scenes offering a different plot device.

At 89 minutes, it is not an extremely long movie and you might get entertained by a few of the "Dream Child" plot scenes. Overall, it's a very average horror movie.

Grade C-