Horror sequels are typically pretty awful. There are exceptions, of course.
Evil Dead 2 is more beloved than the first one, and both Halloween III: Season of the Witch and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter have their devoted fans. But those films are exceptions to the rule. For every Evil Dead 2, there are hundreds of The Exorcist IIs.
An intro to something different A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child - Opening Titles The Dream Child telegraphs that it’s going to be something different, and special, with its title sequence, which sets the otherworldly tone right away. Backed by an electronic score that uses a strange, wordless lullaby to set the mood, the first images we see are abstract shapes bathed in a cool, blue light.
It fails as a traditional horror film, but succeeds as something else From there, The Dream Child throws a lot of plot at you so it can get to what the audience wants. Alice and Dan are graduating high school, and they celebrate with their friends: the aspiring model Greta , comic book nerd Mark , and the no-nonsense jock Yvonne .
What sets The Dream Child apart So what about The Dream Child makes it so special? It brought together the nightmarish feeling of a Lynch film with the body horror of a Cronenberg movie to tell a story about the anxieties of impending motherhood. Long before the “Elevated Horror” era that brought us such movies as Hereditary and Lamb, The Dream Child did it first — and perhaps more honestly than its successors.
Abortion is addressed too, albeit in a way that is pretty clever for an Reagan-era horror flick. When Mark suggests getting rid of the child is an easy way to quickly, and cleanly, eliminate Freddy, Alice refuses to even entertain that thought. “He’s part of me now,” she explains. Now, this is a complicated issue, one that is still debated about today, and here’s a cheap horror sequence tackling both sides of the pro-life/pro-choice debate with a blunt simplicity.
In a scene that would make Cronenberg proud, she draws Freddy from her subconscious by physically pulling him from her own body. Freddy starts to grow from Alice, pulling away his burned body through her face and gradually taking over her own body. Watch for yourself below:
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