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The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Positive Messages. Positive Role Models. R-worthy profanity including "f--k" a few times and "s--t" uttered by a few police officers. None, although a Freddy Krueger industry of toys, models, books, and even software ensued. The heroine's mother is a heavy-drinking alcoholic.
What parents need to know Parents need to know that A Nightmare on Elm Street is a slasher flick with a lot of over-the-top gore and violence, with the qualifier that it's often "nightmare," surreal violence. Continue reading Show less. Stay up to date on new reviews. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. User Reviews Parents say Kids say. Adult Written by Alice February 28, Some are stupid , some are smart Hello , after reading some of the 'parent reviews ' i would have to say i do not recommend showing this to a child that is 12 and under.
Because the Continue reading. Report this review. We hear that a young man is jealous because his ex-girlfriend is dating another young man. A young man invites a young woman on a date. A young man and a young woman sit on a bed together talking. In a dream, a young woman fights with a man with knives on his hands: he throws her against a wall and ceiling, she stabs him in the eye with scissors, and he pulls the scissors out we hear a squish and see stringy blood when the scissor is pulled away.
In a dream, a young man is slammed into a pipe three times and we see his bloody nose and face; he is then slashed across the chest by a man with knives on his hands we see blood. We see several blood-soaked bodies hanging in a machine room. In a dream, a young woman looks for her dog outside at night and she finds him dead with large bloody slashes on his side.
A young woman dreams that a man with knives on his hands slashes at her and cuts her arm we see blood on her arm. People are shown grieving at a funeral, a young woman imagines that she sees herself as a young girl throwing flowers into the grave and when the little girl turns around, we see slashes on her dress; the young woman also imagines a bloody hand reaching out of the grave to grab her ankle.
But in , long before Craven predicted his character would become a huge part of modern pop culture, Freddy was mysterious and not very funny at all.
The co-stars are acceptable at best. However the greatest performance is -- not surprisingly -- by Robert Englund, as Freddy, who is in the film barely at all. Ironically, as mentioned above, this only makes the film succeed at scaring us. The direction is not as superb as "Halloween," and for that matter either is the film. Over the years, "Nightmare" has arguably been given an overrated reputation, although it is inferior to "Halloween.
Despite its flaws it is quite smart with a surprise "final" ending and one of cinema's greatest villains lurking at the core. The film focuses on Nancy's troubles, Nancy's dreams and Nancy's actions. The ending of the film becomes a bit muddled -- the booby traps are unfortunately a bit goofy and Freddy helplessly almost humorously chasing Nancy around her home supposedly trying to murder her is something the film could have done without -- but overall it is a satisfying mixture of horror, thriller and fantasy, a movie that taps into two seldom-recognized everyday events in human life, which are sleeping, and dreaming.
Craven's ability to realize this unknown fear in a movie is, needless to say, quite fascinating. MovieAddict Jul 9, FAQ Was this inspired by the Atlanta child murders?
If Freddy can disappear and reappear elsewhere, why does he go through Nancy's obstacle course of booby traps? Was Freddy abused as a child and eventually became a child killer for that possible reason?
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Top Gap. See more gaps Learn more about contributing. The Dream Child is the first truly irredeemable entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and it is borderline unwatchable.
The film squanders Alice, the fantastic final girl introduced in the preceding and greatly superior The Dream Master, who becomes an utter drag this time around. It also has serious daddy issues and gets lost in a boring mythology.
A huge amount of the The Dream Child is dedicated to the backstory of Freddy's conception — as you probably know, his mother was raped by a hundred maniacs — and finds Freddy attempting to posses Alice's unborn son for There's a lot of potential in the idea of a possessed unborn child, which opens up a realm of primal psychological and body horror, but it's never effectively exploited.
The film has a couple engaging kill sequences — Greta's Erika Anderson force-feeding death scene is a fan favorite, but even that isn't frightening, it's just gross and ridiculous.
Aside from the excessive backstory, it's the uneven tone that really keeps The Dream Child from thriving. It wants Freddy to be both funnier and darker than ever, leading to a movie that doesn't know what it is. It's silly, but not fun. It's serious, but has no dramatic gravity. It's weird, but seemingly only because it can be nothing else. The Dream Child is messy, confusing, and ultimately not very entertaining.
Freddy's Revenge is not good, and perhaps the biggest sin in a Nightmare on Elm Street film, it's not fun. It also makes absolutely no sense. Whatever logic and rules the first film established were casually tossed out the window to make way for a story that has no place within the grander mythology of the franchise. While all the other films are all pretty directly related, the only connection in Freddy's Revenge is the fact that the protagonist, Jesse Walsh Mark Patton , lives in the old Thompson House and is plagued by Freddy Kruger.
But he's attacked in a completely unusual way. Unlike every other film in the franchise, Freddy isn't murdering teens in their sleep; he's slowly possessing Jesse and using him as an avatar to enact his murderous desires. Jesse is becoming Or if you're into homosexual subtext, he's "becoming" gay. While those involved in the production have long denied the homoerotic undertones, Freddy's Revenge is most interesting when taken an allegory for a gay teenager struggling to accept his identity.
There's a leather bar, there's a hunky confidant, there's fucking gym shower towel-whipping torture scene, for goodness' sake. Jesse even twerks his drawer closed. Even if the subtext was unintentional, which is almost unfathomable, the film has become an icon of Queer Horror, and as its one redeeming quality, Freddy's Revenge a fascinating spin on the traditionally heteronormative gender dynamics of the slasher film.
Ah, Freddy's Dead. What a mindless clusterfuck of a film. And yet, it's so weird and so oddball that's still enjoyable. That's a fairly unpopular opinion. You'll find Freddy's Dead at the bottom of most people's rankings, and I can respect that Freddy dons a witches cap and flies around on a broom at one point, so yeah, I get it , but there's something about its wretched ridiculousness that I enjoy. It's the kind of horror film you could watch on hallucinogens and still have a great time, which is to say it's an absolute failure as a scary movie, but there's still an element of fun about it.
Freddy's Dead marks the nadir of Freddy's transformation from terrifying villain to cartoonish slapstick enthusiast. It features goofball kills — including when Freddy lays a bed of nails out underneath a falling victim, relishing in the moment like some two-bit comedian waiting for a punchline that never gets the laugh See also: Breckin Meyer 's stoner video game dream sequence.
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