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) franchises. The ongoing "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series would come to an end after an eight issue run and be replaced by a mini-series, late in 2007. In September, Wildstorm released "New Line Cinema's Tales of Horrors", a one-shot issue featuring separate stories concerning Freddy Krueger and Leatherface. The Freddy Krueger story was written by Christos Gage and Peter Milligan and involves Freddy dealing with an inhabitant of Springwood who has taken to copying his murder style, in a story aptly titled "Copycat". Freddy next appeared in the six-issue "Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash", an intercompany crossover with Dynamite