Welcome to the killcount where we tally up the victims at all our favorite horror movies I'm James a Janisse and today
We're looking at a Nightmare on Elm Street 5 the dream child released in
1989 the dream child picks up a year after Alice defeated Freddy in the dream master and finds her still with handsome Dan as they
graduate high school together
But their year of peace comes to an end when Freddy's
resurrected and starts killing again
Somehow managing his massacres even while Alice is still away after the dream master took a break from exploring Freddy's backstory the dream child returns
To the Amanda Krueger storyline established at dream warriors and pretty much bases the entire movie around it
but with another revolving set of
screenwriters in a super rushed production the resulting movie is a gothic mess that continues to feature more weird dream visuals than interesting characters or
A sensible storyline and the Freddy jr.
Part is just the cherry on this shit sundae and hate to be the bearer of bad news
But the MPAA mercilessly cut down all the death scenes in this movie. Let's look at what they left and get to The Kills
The movie begins with some sweaty blue body parts writhing around together
It's Alice and Dan and when they're done bathing in the moonlight Alice has to go rinse all that handsome. Ha
but her
post-coital hosing down gets treacherous when the shower fills up in almost drowns her she only manages to escape by breaking through the wall of
Reality and launching her naked ass into dreamland
Where at the end of this dark and wet corridor is the fable the hundred maniacs of hathaway house which include a make up list
Robert Englund who spike in that camera like it's a volleyball Alice finds herself at a nun uniform with an Amanda Krueger
Nametag and when the hospital orderlies piece out without finishing their couch
She swarmed and overcome by the unruly psych ward resident Alice wakes up safely in bed with handsome Dan by her side
Oh wait, did I say handsome Dan cuz I meant Robert Englund wearing a potato sack
He jumps on her and pins her down in the bed until she throws him off
And he disappears hell of a way to start your graduation day. That's right. It's time to as Dan says blow this pop stand
Graduating alongside Alice and Dan or all her new
Replacement friends since you know everyone else died in the last movie, and who were the meatbags. We've got for this one
Let's see there's Greta an aspiring model with an overbearing mother ARCA dude with questionable fashion
Sense who's apparently chasing after Greta by means of emotional erosion
well I think I'm starting to wear down and Yvonne who for some reason is both an all-star swimmer and works at a hospital
I think these latter movie nightmare characters
Just had their personality traits picked out of a hat
Elsa's douchebag father's there
- Apparently haven't given up drinking and being a dick all the parent kick combos get a big group picture as if the audience is supposed
To care about any of this finger-tight father shit
And we don't even see half these characters ever again on our way to work elvis sees the fool jump rope
Ensemble who at this point have just got to be doing a greatest hits tour. No way they're still pumping out new material
See nothing beats the classics
She follows them through some shrubbery until she finds a man to Krueger at the steps of the asylum
Which looks like a giant gothic castle here inside Alice walks around
He's a crazy-looking baby carriage, and then falls into a fantasy where she's on a stretcher being pushed into a hospital room
But she fights back until she becomes an observer instead of a participant in this dream
And now she's watching Amanda Krueger on the stretcher as she gives birth to something that causes quite a stir
Oh come on. I'm sure. It's not that bad. Oh God
Yeah, okay, that is one nasty looking alien, baby thing if first person charges at Alice through a doorway
And she follows it right back into the chapel from the last movie between the repeat settings and characters and the tangled mess these movies
call a plot you're forgiven if you get nightmares three four and five all mixed up in your head it happens to me all the
Time nasty baby Freddy is in there, and he's trying to put on the red and green striped sweater
Oh, he thinks he's people and when Alice tries to stop him
He throws a hissy fit that brings the whole church down finally wriggles into the sweater
And we get our Freddy resurrection for the movie, then he slips on his love glove and makes some noise with it wait
What's up with that Slenderman? Ah are we sure that's the same old Freddy Krueger?
He tells Alice he's found a way to live again while touching on her stomach and then Amanda comes in all none doubt and scares
Freddy by saying all sorts of crazy shit like how his birth was one big mistake how she's gonna kill him
How she's got to be released from her earthly prison how okay good?
She's gone out and now alice is back in that diner, which yes is called
The Craven as a reference to West I missed that in my video last week and a lot of you pointed out in the comments
But you did so very politely so thank you for that she calls up Dan at the high school where the recent grads are having
a pool party
Thanks to Yvonne having the keys to the place and tells him that Krueger somehow took over her reality while she was still awake
That's who dreamt himself up
I don't know Dan runs off to see her
But he's not missing anything these new characters are lame and just talk about their controlling parents
And how mark is anxious around blood even though?
He draws comics they have plenty of the old
ultraviolence while driving Dan gets sleepy and apparently conks out for a road now since he starts hearing his mom on the radio complaining about
His relationship with Alice and Freddie comes through the system and straps stand in for a ride butcher battle though the metal man
He drives them into oncoming traffic and then appears in the passenger seat to talk shit about Dan's choice of champagne
Gear damn forehead he you are Wow than the fuck out man
Did you just hear champagne has acid to rip off your own arm?
He sure did and he sticks to down the truck before a tire blowout throws Dan through the windshield then into the swimming pool
Okay, dream, child he runs back outside and decides that two wheels are better than four so he takes off on that motorcycle
He always has strapped to the back of his truck, but speeding through the streets
He finds that he's a little more attached to this bike than he thought since wires and cables start coming out and fusing with his
Body, then Freddy pops up for another one-liner because he just never knows when enough is enough
The cables continue fusing with Dan's body all over the place including his precious handsome face while Freddy screams power drive and other dumb shit
That my brain just to now
Like that Dan winds up looking like Sebastian Shaw Vader as his bike speeds down the road
But then we cut to Alice in the diner, so I guess maybe he's okay. Here's something Jesus Christ
What the fuck is that keep falling down a wreck don't help in real life
He's just crashing into a truck and Alice runs out to see his truck on fire in the middle of the road and Dan's dead
Body amidst the flaming wreckage, or is he dead
Water babies oh yeah
He's really dead that was just the hallucination that makes Alice pain
She wakes up in the hospital and complaints to Yvonne once again that Freddy has found a way to attack people outside of her dreams
Her assholes anonymous father and a doctor tell her that Dan is dead
But that his replacements already in the making because she's pregnant with his kid
She goes to sleep in the hospital and wakes up to that kid who annoyed grant in Jurassic Park who tells her his name is
Jacob Metis sorry her boyfriend's dead. Thanks kid
I'm sure she wants to keep talking about that and pieces out and the next day Yvonne tells Alice there weren't any kids anywhere near
Her hospital room you know what that means goes kid Alice holds court with her friends and gives us our by now
exhausting Freddy Krueger backstory from beginning to end all the legal loopholes and vengeance arson including her friends are
Skeptical of course because that's how these movies go and offer their empty support in the form of thoughts and prayers
And huh fred is at a fancy dinner with her haughty ass momager when she nods off at the table things get surreal fast Chef
Freddy Ramsay comes out and locks Greta in a high chair for some nom noms boo Map Reduce
He serves her some doll sushi and stuffs her mouth full of some glistening jiggly meat that turns out as her own body
What surely? He keeps feeding at or even though?
It's fucking wrong until she ends up looking like the radiator lady from Eraserhead
Then he picks her up and holds her in a weird embrace
The kill has a short interlude where Alice sees the food in her fridge rotting like a time-lapse shot and planet Earth and then Greta
Is reaching out for help from the fridge?
But Freddy's not gonna let this five-star meal escape him
And he pulls her back leaving a to-do list for Alice threaded eyes in real life by choking to death on food in front of
The entire dinner party talk about spoiling an appetite Ellis goes to this warehouse because I guess Marco lives there in a backroom
decorated with all this comic artwork
He's finally starting to believe Alice about Freddy, and he whines about how his character the Phantom Prowler could have protected Greta
But when Alice steps out to make some coffee mark falls asleep
And she comes back to find some line work of the Elm Street house on his desk mark goes all AHA and winds up in
the drawing
- so Alice uses her elementary art skills to transport herself and from the house as well since that place is the reason we keep
Coming back to these movies right everyone. We love the Elm Street house
She finds mark in the floor hanging on to this finger looking edge of that rectum tunnel and after she pulls him up out of
There to safety he sees some blood on his hand and faints disappearing into the floor
What was Mark a ghost no, but creepy ghost kid Jacobs back now?
And he yells at Alice for not caring about being a mom he runs away
She runs after him and now she's back in marks
Bohemian warehouse room I get that these movies are about dreams and that dreams have loosey-goosey spatial logic
But man this one doesn't even try to make sense
Ellis realizes that the wraptor kid is her unborn child so she goes to the hospital that Yvonne works at where she begins to discover
How Freddy might be working his magic this time through to unborn babies dream during an ultrasound
The doctor tells her that yes a fetus may spend 70% or more of its time dreaming, so yeah
That's how Freddy's attacking people in this one through the unborn babies dreams while the others aren't looking at the ultrasound the static image gets
Weird and then apparently spreads through Alice's body and wisps her into the computer now. We're back in the - man
I don't know what's going on here. I'm sorry, but here's a group of looking fake baby with Freddy's face right behind it
That's fun Freddy tells Alice that he's taking care of the unborn child's dietary needs Phoebe. I show for my boy
And Alice wakes up startled and tells Yvonne that Freddy is feeding her baby dead soul so he can make the baby like him
Obviously that sounds like a big old pile of crazy talk so after she leaves the doctor calls Dan's parents
And they go to Alice's house and tell her that they want to adopt a baby and raise it as their own
arguing that she can't properly raise a child as long as she's running around talking about dream demons and shit she refuses their offer and
Runs off to Mark's place where they look at some research he found about Amanda Krueger sounds like Amanda Krueger hanged herself after Freddy's trial
That her body wasn't found that grave
We saw in dream warriors was an empty plot with a memorial stone because of her suicide her soul is trapped in its earthly
resting place
Alice decides to go to sleep so she can find a man to Krueger and get the juicy deets and Mark agrees to stay awake
In watcher good thing that plans never gone wrong before Yvonne who still doesn't believe
Aleister Marc about any of this Freddy stuff goes to the pool to practice swimming
But that don't look like swim practice to me
It looks like you're falling asleep in a hot tub when she finally does get out of the jacuzzi
swim coach Freddy has arrived to help her work on her form first up on his practice schedule is high diving into an abyss the
Diving board she's standing on cracks open into some Nightmare Before Christmas
clause which forces Yvonne to jump off the board and fall through the air towards the amazing disappearing pool landing into tiny little puddle with
Some pretty nice form all things considered Alice who's been searching dreamland for Amanda gets rolled into a nasty little water filled side room out
Of which Freddy emerges burning water from his blowhole
He pulls Yvonne out of the watery depths
But Alice grabs a nearby pool skimmer and Spears him through the mouth with it escape from Freddy. Who's looking real freaked out
What's up with that? He's scared to come in because of Amanda. Oh, okay, so Amanda's right there, though
We have to find Amanda
But in the real world mark finds a comic that he doesn't remember buying but maybe that just means you have a serious eBay addiction
Deed he glanced us through the book which features panels of everything that's happened in the movie so far and when he reaches the end
He gets aha yet again since that video was so damn popular into a version of his room
that's had the saturation turned all the way down Freddy pops out and oh my dear Lord Freddy Krueger's on a skateboard fuck man and
I thought the sunglasses were bad as he skate stores mark
He swipes out some support beams and the whole place falls down around him and Fred appears above mark with a bloody Greta who he?
Throws down to smash into pieces as a doll on the floor this pisses mark off and he becomes that comic character
He was fantasizing about earlier The Phantom Prowler time. Did I you?
scar-faced limp-dick
He shoots the shit out of freddy
But it only puts him down temporarily of course fred bounces back up and one of the few instances where
Someone other than Robert Englund plays the character because this isn't just regular Freddy
Superfriends uh
at least the kills
Inventive mark becomes a 2d paper version of himself and Freddy cuts them so deep all the color drains out then Fred just rips him
to shred and although the
Decapitation in the scale got cut by those bastards at the MPAA at least we get to watch Fred
Have a good time with all that mark confetti in the real world Alice wakes up and sees that mark has been crushed to death
By his makeshift room collapsing on it
This is why we have building codes bulbs
Yvonne shows up now obviously believing in Krueger and Alice tells her to go to the creepy old psych ward to find a man to
Krueger's body so they can finally end this mess of a movie Yvonne heads to the crazy
composite castle of a hospital and searches through the hallways while Alice goes to sleep so she can walk around in the dream version of
The same play Freddy shows up and chases Alice down the hall by means of jump cuts
But then she charges him with that crazy
Baby carriage from the beginning and impales him on it rolling him through the hallway and down a set of stairs until he's the guest
Of honor at a freaky freaky inmate party as Alice watches. They apparently rip Freddy limb from limb, but then his arm
Just turns into fucking spiders good
God dream child make at least a little bit of sense the dream shouts all like now
We're just gonna do a labyrinth style MC escher set-piece instead
Oh and Fred's arm is all walking out anyone want to pump the brakes on this crazy train Jacob takes Fred's hand but Alice tells
Him, no, that's a bad man, so he runs away from him
And they have a nauseating upside down chase sequence on these stairs. Hey, let's throw dead Dan into the mix to fuckin
Yeah, we get a few weird shots in the sequence including one just peering at Dan's crotch
And then we see that Dan is actually Freddy because an upside-down estriol
And nothing needs to make sense
Alison Jacob finally reunited and when Freddy seemingly
Disappears Jacob tells Alice that Freddy is hiding inside of her so she screams a bunch and then starts turning into him or no
She's like throwing him up, or is this like mitosis on Elm Street
Hey remember Nancy, Thompson, and how good the movies were back then good times man Freddy?
Just kind of cuts and kicks his way out of Alice's body
You read his Yvonne crashes through a wall of the psych ward in the real world inside this new hidden room she finds a man
- Krueger's body, but when she goes to touch it we get a weird variation on the famous scene from psycho
The Empty habits links to the ground and then Amanda Krueger shows up in dreamworld since now her spirits at rest or whatever she calls
Out to Jacob and tells him he needs to help Alice
Or she'll die and then we get this awful awful part of the movie as Jacob tells Freddy
He wants to be a baby Krueger now. I wanna confirm. You feel funny anymore. It's me
Learn stuff from you that little laugh
Why?
Robert Englund reflects on how far off the rails this series has gotten and with one last sloppy makeout with Alice again why steps towards
Jacob to I don't know be his dad or something
But then Amanda tells Jacob to unleash his power and Jacob does in the form of a giant tongue that comes out and impales Freddy
We get another crazy final Freddy sequence like a dream master
But this one just has the heads of Freddy's three victims from this movie extending out of his back and pulling him across the room
Until Oh what the fuck?
Until they yanked that nasty baby Freddy out of his bag as Alice picks up Jacob who has now become a baby
Amanda picks up her demon Hellspawn baby Freddy disappears in a flash of light
Apparently reverting to be in utero and then Jacob's like that looks like fun stuff
Let me try and he does the same thing with Alice as a man who leaves the room Freddy's club busts out of her abdomen
In an effort to escape but a door slam shot it locks them inside the dream psych ward the movie mercifully ends with Alice her
Dad Yvonne and newborn baby Jacob Daniel having a picnic in the park as a jump rope girl performs ominously in the foreground
Holy shit that mess of a movie is finally over and spoiler alert there weren't even that many kills here
I'll show you at the numbers
Yeah, nothing fun for this one could fuck this movie
Only three people died in the dream child the lowest of the nightmare series and tied for the lowest of any kill Con episode the
Victims were two dudes and one lady, which is obviously a 2 to 1 male. Heavy ratio and with the runtime of 90 minutes
That's a kill on average every half hour
I'll get the golden chainsaw for clueless killed to mark honestly all three kills are pretty much equally cool
and the only reason I'm picking marks is because his is the most memorable to me and for the first time on this series there's
Not going to be a dull machete because for all this movie's faults the three kills it had were all pretty cool
so that's it The Nightmare on Elm Street 5 the dream child came out in the final year of our Lord's favor decade the
1980s to both critical and box-office apathy next week is the infamous Freddy's dead the final nightmare and until that experience
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