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Welcome to The Kill Count, where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies, I'm James A Janisse,
and today we're looking at A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master released in
1988,The Dream Master continues the story from 'Dream Warriors' featuring the surviving characters from that movie like
Joey, and Kincaid and wait who's that blonde chick? Oh I guess that's supposed to be Kristen Parker,
now played by Tuesday Knight instead of Patricia Arquette for reasons people weirdly can't seem to agree upon
even though I think it is just because she was pregnant.
After 'Dream Warriors' made Freddy mainstream, The Dream Master turned him into the hero of the series, an experienced finished director renny harlin
Wanted Freddy to be a
Cool, guy, "like James Bond" and so the one-liners continued and increased the screenplay was seriously hampered
By, a writer's strike going on at the time meaning
Some scenes weren't written until hours before being shot and harlan wound up relying more on surreal dream visuals than a storyline that makes any
Sense but that's. Okay, those cool, visuals led, to some pretty sweet kills so let's get to
The movie begins with a quote cuz
I guess that's what we're doing in the series now cristen mark two comes across a little girl
Than her chalk art exhibit of the elm street house
Before mother nature washes it away like a goddamn philistine and now the house, is standing right in front of her complete with
Some jump rope girls in a bow
And boy backup performer
Kristen winds up inside the house unable to escape it as the doors play funhouse tricks on her and then tuesday night speaks to herself
Aloud to let the audience know she is the kristen now a
Storm blows, her back all the way into a boiler room which spooks
Her out so much she ends up calling on our boy kincaid, and pulling him into her dream
And also joey is looking much older and it's talking about more they tell kristen that she needs to quit pulling them into her dreams
Because freddy's dead i've been trying to get some goddamn sleep looks, like, they, may
Be right it's the only thing that attacks them in the stream is kincaid's dog, who bites kristen's arm, oh?
Yeah, the dog's name is jason wonder if that's a reference to a the next morning kristen goes to pick up her friend
Alice johnson whose dad is a real prick you going out dressed, like, that dude she looks like, she's going to a catholic
Parish, bake sale what's your problem that dad is so douchey, alice's brother rick, exits his house through a window
Just to avoid it and gives kristen to smooch cuz
That's her boyfriend to get to school and meet up with, her friend debbie who stands there i fucking this
Jock dan from across the parking lot, looks, like, alice is a damn fan too you know. You are one major league
Thanks alice even if she only has that kind of confidence in her daydreams another friend sheila rolls up on a smoking. Moped type
Deal and judging, by, her big old glasses and asthma condition it's obvious
this Chicks a nerd but she a cutie too there's a seemingly random
Moment where debbie finds a bug in her bag of chips
And get super grossed out and it's literally just here to shoehorn in a character trait for afraid to use in a kill later that
Happens a lot looks
Like kincaid and joey go to the same school having successfully reintegrated into society
After being chased around a psych ward by a dream demon they tell, new kristen to let, sleeping freddy's lie
if there's no reason to keep using her dream power anymore after they leave for class rick calls them a bunch of weirdos but i
Want to check the color of that kettle dude cuz
You're! The one doing an extended karate kid practice session to some dramarama in the garage that night maybe this is just his way of dealing
With having such a piss-poor excuse for a parent looking for something, oh no papa nothing except your love and approval but instead daddy
Johnson just for rates alice
About the dinner she made for him you call this bench shamil after a 10-hour workday what the hell am i a rabbit
Yeah, could, we get freddie and dis dudes dreams they, say, alice seemingly takes matters into her
Own hands but it's just another daydream what's up with this
Chick she dreamin so much she may just be a master of it by now
Oh, i think i get it speaking of dreams kincaid falls asleep
And wakes up in one of his own in the trunk of a car at the junkyard
From the last movie and jason the dog seems to be digging up, some old bones obviously we're, about to get freddy back
But i wonder how, they'll do is this old the dog pisses fire okay kincaid
You got to stop putting kerosene in the kibble man the fire cracks open the ground
Where freddy skeleton is lying in pieces but not for long it reassembles itself and begins to grow
Organs and skin and blood in a manner very similar to frank cotton in hellraiser
Which had just come out the year before interesting more fire gives freddy
His, glove back, and with the donning of a dirty fedora it looks like, we're looney tunes back in action you should know. Barry
He, uses his powers to possess a bunch of junk vehicles which trap kincaid in the middle of a car
Maze so big and confusing
That you could probably use it to trap a hotel possessed father and then he appears right next to kincaid
And stabs him in the gut fred, stabs him
Again, and is all like they're there kincaid i know we're killing you off way too early in this movie and with the third
And final stab we see kincaid, dying in his bed as his poor pup wonders what's happening to his human, oh poor
Jason, maybe if you, wait 15 years you can get revenge on freddy, well if we got rid of kincaid might as?
Well get rid of joey too he's falling, asleep with his mtv and steals a peep at
This, bikini model on the wall right before drifting off to dreamland in his dreams
His water bats like a
Wave pool and inside that bed is the woman of his very horny dreams before he can, figure out
A way to breach the barrier between them, though she sinks away and up comes freddy
Who's got the most obvious one liner in store for this kill how's this for 23
He pulls joey into the water bed and kills him with his finger knives a pretty
Basic kill for krueger i'll be at a wet rendition but at least
We get this nice shot of a bloody waterbed at the end of it and there's another cool shot when his mom comes in his
Room later to find him dead in the best thanks to fred the next, day kristin's smoking
A stress cigarette and she chats with, alice about, how
They, both been having nightmares and alice drops the, movie's title on us did you ever hear the dream master it's a
Rhyme just have to dream about someplace fun remember
You're in control i don't get it is that the rhyme or but instead of explaining yourself more thoroughly the two of them just keep
Incessantly talking about their dreams like there are a couple of young actors who just moved to la
Actors, when they go to class kristin sees that both kinkaid
And joey are missing so she freaks out all right ones
Knocking herself out in the corner she comes to in the nurse's office but does that lady look a little english to you
Yeah, she does because she's robert englund
And that nurse is freddie i wanna draw something blah but kristen
Would prefer a proper phlebotomist so she wakes up from that nightmare and that's that apparently alice works at
This, back to the future style, diner where dan dan the handsome man stops. By looking for her brother cuz
I, guess he and rick are buds debby meanwhile, wants to be more than boats with dan wonders aloud
Where he works out i mean there is life after?
Exercise yeah that line is another shoehorn character trait for deb's since apparently these filmmakers have never heard of show
Don't tell rick and kristen rush in with breaking news kincaid and joey dead overnight find out more in act 2
They, take, alison dapper dan to freddy's house, where rick talks, about krueger's backstory in case anyone in the audience
Was still in the dark during the fourth fucking movie of the series house prompts
Alice to remember the dream master right now i lay, me down to sleep the master of dreams my
Soul i'll keep dream master i think i remember the rhyme, okay, wait so that's the rhyme, is that it before we can?
Explore what the fuck alice is talking, about kristin's mom starts talking to them and doing her best speedy, gonzales impression
They, have dinner where kristin's mom pretends that tuesday night has always been her daughter
Patricia, who drugs are with sleeping pills because it's way easier to parent when your kids unconscious kristin runs up to a room
Where some well-done overhead camera movements really capture the feel of someone falling asleep
While fighting to stay awake kristen loses the fight and wakes up on a beach but there's something speeding around the water just offshore is
It a shark is it a dolphin
Nope it's a freddy glove and it's headed right for it
Freddy, blows up a sand castle and appears on the beach and when kristin tries to run
Away she winds up in some quicksand freddy's all like, deal with her bitch steps on her head to push her down
Through, the sand you'd think that might be it but. Nah she crashes through a ceiling, and we're back in that fucking
House, god damn it hey elm street franchise, yeah, we don't actually care
That much about the house we're here for freddy kristen runs downstairs and surprise
Surprise she's in a boiler room where freddy appears
And tells her to call one of her friends into the dream because the more the merrier
Kristen doesn't want to but she accidentally summons alice, who, joins her in the boiler room, oh?
Fresh meat she gets there just in time to see freddy, toss kristen into a furnace and show
Off his nasty soul chest then, okay follow, me here if you, can't kristen's all like
Yo, alice you'll meet my dream po direct quote and throws
A spirit ball or something into freddy, who then regurgitates that shit like an owl pellet back into alice
oh yeah
I guess that happened
Ellis wakes up and finds the postcard picture from freddy so she grabs rick and they run to kristin's house
Sure enough there's a light over at the kristen parker place
And that light is a raging inferno that they find consuming kristen in bed bomber just like that all the dream warriors of death but
Who, will be our main character, oh probably the dream master jaken kristen
Is buried in the springwood protagonists cemetery and her death leaves dallas feeling different as she tells rick
Something happened in the dream and now it's like
Part of hers with, me must be the part with the nicotine addiction, because at school the next, day
Alice goes to light up in the bathroom only stopping
When she realizes i don't suck you sure you've been light up in that classroom to alice because this place looks hazy
Er than a sterling cooper boardroom with the big test under way
She will learn that she might not have studied the proper material and how
Exactly is this happening
Well because alice is a real c- student and fell asleep in class
Apparently pulling sheila into her dream the test really starts to consume
Sheila, her arm gets pulled into the paper and then an inspector gadget robot arm nonsensically comes out
And grabs her in the face
Watch it sheila i don't think professor freddy's gonna appreciate all this class clowning around he walks over to the star pupil and gets pretty
Predatory, with, her there's that classic
Tongue waggle that's your, while you're famous freddy one liners water sun face and with, that he starts, sucking all the
Air right out of her collapsing her dream body in a real gnarly, way, and leaving it looking
Like sheila shaped hot water paths in real life
she
Was fully inflated but unable to breathe and she dies in the classroom from lack of air alice realizes that she pulled sheila into her
Dream and got her killed so she runs, away, from her friends and an awkward
Crying, mess her brother chases after her looking, like he's part of the breakfast club that night dan comes to the diner to ask
Alice, why, exactly freddy might be after her, maybe freddy
Can't get to the new, kids unless there's someone to bring them to him at school the next day, we get our obligatory?
bob shaye, cameo
As he lectures on about war dream master bullshit but none of it even makes any goddamn sense alice falls asleep in class
While rick falls asleep on the toilet
Which can definitely happen if you're tired enough trust me i know rick starts having a freddy nightmare with a personal cheer squad in the
Stall but wait a minute i thought alice could pull people into dreams without the other person falling asleep, why, do we need
Rick to fall, asleep, this fucking movie rick finds himself in a bathroom that looks like
It be part of an underground club in abies new. York kristen's there but, she's all burning grows
And then the stall turns into an elevator that transports rick down to a
Karate, dojo in one of the dumbest scenes of the franchise rick fights an invisible freddie swinging his limbs around wildly accompanied
By, cheesy, sound effects, this literally happened
Because they ran out of money and had already filmed rick's funeral scene so they need to kill him, off somehow look at. How
Cheap, the set load it's just a bunch of fucking bed sheets so down
Eventually the finger knife glove - one freddy krueger launches itself into rick's gut
And kills them ending the life of our pantomiming ralph macchio ralph macchio business is booming for spring wood coffin
Makers during rick's funeral alice has a daydream where, we get this unfortunate moment, oh?
God please make a stop, there's really, no point to this rick hallucination, so we'll just stick him
Back in the coffin
And pretend like that never happened now the only friends alice has left are dan and debby and we don't even know
Anything, about these two i mean look, i don't spend hours working out to let, some some night sucker beat me oh, yeah
That's right debbie's apparently into exercise even though we're an hour into this movie and we've seen
No, visible evidence of that at
Home, alice demonstrates that she's still, absorbing the paper-thin character trace of her dead friends and family because now
She's good at karate or at least, her stunt double is ellis goes to meet dan at the diner but
When he's not there i guess she decides it's a
Good time to take in a movie ooh reefer madness i hope it's the kristen bell one now
Looks, like it's the one from the 30s which is actually a, little inside, joke since bob shaye
Had distributed copies of that movie to help finance new
line cinema early on but then the movie turns into a reel of the diner gone
Desolate and alice's snacks are getting sucked towards the screen
No, killin is one thing freddy but, that, soda probably cost like 10 bucks all right not cool
Eventually the movie pulls alice herself into the screen and a great effect. This movie may be nonsensical but it does have some cool
Visuals she looks out at herself sleeping in the theater like it's one of those crazy shots from dreamcatcher and inside the diner finds an
Old version of herself, what, does she come across next on the list on the space, baby freddy
shows up and gets his order of meatball pizza but she got a couple of jokes lined up for us here huh fred i
Love, ah sick and then he eats that little rick ball, growls he tells alice to bring him
More victims and she accidentally opens the door to debbie who holy shit is actually working out even though her form is pretty suspect that
Is one narrow
Friggin, grip you've got there, deb palace gets back to the diner she and dan get into the truck they rushed to go
Save debbie and deb's too busy, with her
Gains to notice freddy's come to spot her alice said dan get to deb's house alice runs across the lawn to save
Deb then alice gets back to the diner she and dan get into the truck they rushed to go
Save debbie and deb finds freddy given her some resistance training and delivering the obvious no pain
No, gain line as he rips her arms apart at the elbow i absolutely love this effect it's so
Well done that it's almost hard to watch look at
Him, floppy broken arm then because freddy, wants to work both of debbie's shoehorned character traits into her death he
Makes this so cockroach arm sprout out of her stumps and her shoulders and there goes a hand the transformation leaves
Deb running around a dim hallway looking like a rejected spider-man
Bella alice and dan get to deb's house, alice runs across the lawn to save
Deb then alice gets back to the diner she and dan get into the truck they rushed to go
Save debbie deb finds herself inside a roach motel looking out at her empty bench and no doubt thinking
About all the reps she's missing out on her feet get trapped in that nasty sap stuff and then she falls face-first into it when
She tries to lift her head out of the glue her, face just comes straight off nice completing her buggy transformation
Meanwhile alice gets back to the diner but
Before she and dan can get into the truck they finally catch on to the fact that they're asleep
And freddy has him running in circle cockroach, deb finally meets her end after struggling with her motels amenities for a, while freddy's giant
Eye peeps in as he bungles an eagles lyrics do care but you can't
And he finishes their long drawn-out death sequence by crushing her within the box ellis and dan see freddy's standing in the middle of the
Road so alice floors it to wreck his ship but instead she just wrecks the vehicle
Oh, and apparently she, did that because she inherited debbie's rage the whole thing is so dumb in reality alice actually crashed
The truck into a tree, which nearly, killed dan gfj, alice at the hospital alice realizes the doctors are gonna put dan under anesthesia
Which will leave him
Susceptible to a freddy infection so she rushes off to go prepare herself for a fight since time is so limited you know
what she needs a montage she gets dressed in
Accessorizes with all the crap or dead friends of laughter and then looks into the mirror and pretends to be cool
Dan is put under and wakes up in dreamland - doctor i'm, sorry doc what'd you say, your name was again
Doctor sheesh and alice jump kicks through her mirror and winds up in the hospital room okay and unties dan from his
Hospital bed they run through a, pipe with, some clasky soup
Oh, squigglies cut, out the sides and when freddy appears on the other end he starts spinning it around like it's
Some kind of crazy, tunnel @dz discovers
Oh, this, is just silly dude what is freddy even doing here the kids crashed, through a stained glass window
And fall into a church dan cuts himself deep in the process and after it bleeds through into the real
World his doctors, wake him up from the anesthesia this
Yanks dan how the dream world and back to reality leaving alice alone as freddie strolls into the church with a one-liner welcome to wonderland
She uses her newly inherited karate skills to do a bunch of slippy dips and then punch and kick the crap out of freddie like
Dozens and dozens and dozens of time although none of it seems to faze us as he just keeps laughing his
Dickish laugh the entire time eventually he
Tosses her across the room but she gets back up and uses some macgyver science bullshit to rig up a
Ghostbusters lookin blaster that zaps a hole straight clean through freddie's door so freddie don't care
Though, he just waxes it off and tells alice that he, is the turtle but of course alice has to be triumphant somehow
And the way it happens, is drenched in weak sauce, some jump rope girls on break in the rafters remind
Alice of that dream master rhyme she's been the ameren about this, whole movie which apparently ends like this
Yep you heard right evil will see itself and die and i guess that's what's happening here as we ralick through freddy's digestive tract
And see all the souls that, using it the souls start punching out a
freddy's body
And although i'm not a fan of that dream master rhyme ending or really the whole chest full of souls thing in general i will
Say that the effects here are absolutely awesome and a great example of how combining different effect techniques and results in something beautiful
Oh, and one of the escaping souls is played
By, scream queen, lydia, quigley she shows her boobs of course eventually all the escaping souls were freddy shaw
And escaped through his broken
Mouth hole leaving nothing behind but an empty sweater and a lonely finger nightclub i am including this as a kill and in retrospect
Probably should have counted freddy's death of dream warriors to my, bad the happy soul heads fly past alice as they escaped
Through, the window into the night sky alice leads the church
Which leads into a de new mall that shows her and dan together talking about how
Easy, sleep has come lately but when dan tosses the coin in the fountain
Alice sees freddy in the reflection or does she i mean she definitely
Did but he's not there anymore who's to say what that, means other than the fact that there
Would definitely be another sequel but instead of worrying about future
Installments we've got to focus on the now man and the kills that the dream master gave us so let's see how
Bad of an idea wearing a green shirt, was and get to the numbers
oh
Hey, not bad seven people died in the dream master as long, as we're counting freddy
Which, i will the victims included four guys, and three girls, which means freddy once again
Killed his victims in a fair
And balanced way and a runtime of 93 minutes that comes out to a kill on average about every 13 minutes
I'll get the golden chainsaw, for poulos killed to debbie i love how, drawn-out ur death is starting with the elbow
Breakage and advancing to a
Stage five gregor samsa the entire transformation looks great and it's even got the fun dream loop
Thing going on while it happened easy winner in my mind almost ready for lamest kill goes to rick guiding that stupid fucking
Invisible karate scene with
A stupid fucking, flying club stab
And that's it a nightmare home street for the dream master was released in 1988 and was the highest-grossing freddy film until
2003 as freddy vs
jason
People loved it so much that a sequel came out just under a year later and we'll look at that one the dream child next
Week, until then i'm james a chinese this has been the kill count thanks a lot for watching
My kill count for the dream master one thing some of my, patrons like will stir nick and charles hall, we have now
left the nightmare movies that i love and are getting into the stuff that i don't like i
Did wind up doing a
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See you all then be good people