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 (2010 film) Street" is second in opening-weekend gross behind "Friday the 13th" with $40,570,365. The film sits ahead of the other Platinum Dunes remakes, which includes "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" ($28,094,014), "The Amityville Horror" ($23,507,007), and "The Hitcher" ($7,818,239). As of 2018, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is number nineteen on the list of top opening weekends for the month of April. In 2018, the remake is ninth in slasher films and eighth in horror remakes for all-time-highest-grossing films (unadjusted dollars). When comparing its opening weekends to other slasher films and horror remakes, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" sits in fifth spots