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
A Nightmare on Elm Street (comics) A Nightmare on Elm Street (comics) The popularity of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series has led to several comic book series published by Marvel Comics, Innovation Publishing, Trident Comics, Avatar Press and WildStorm Productions. After the success of "Freddy vs. Jason" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remake film in 2003, New Line Cinema created their "House of Horror" licensing division which licensed the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise to Avatar Press for use in new comic book stories, the first of which was published in 2005. In 2006, Avatar Press lost the license to DC Comics