A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is a 1989 American slasher film and the fifth film in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins, stars Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox and Danny Hassel. It is the sequel to "" and is followed by "". The film's general tone is much darker and the dream sequences are more Gothic than the previous films of the series, and a blue filter lighting technique is used in most of the scenes. The film's main titles do not
Nancy Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street) entity was locked in Freddy Krueger's character throughout the "Nightmare on Elm Street" film series. With the film series being ended after "" the entity has been set free, and wants to cross over into the real world in the form of Freddy Krueger. It views Heather as an enemy, seeing her as Nancy, who originally defeated him. In times, like Nancy, Heather's hair also went prematurely grey under the stress by Krueger's attacks. In order to battle the entity, who has kidnapped her son Dylan, Heather enters the dream world, where she traps him in a furnace and seemingly