A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) on Netflix
A year after surviving Freddy Krueger, Kristen Parker, Roland Kincaid and Joey Crusel are back at school. Kristen fears he has returned, and her friend Alice Johnson is drawn into the dreams.
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Back at school a year after the killings at Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital, Kristen Parker, Roland Kincaid and Joey Crusel try to settle into their lives. Kristen is popular and keeps her boyfriend Rick Johnson and his quiet sister Alice close, while Kincaid and Joey are outcasts. When a dream returns Kristen to Freddy Krueger's boiler room, she pulls the two boys into her sleep, and they tell her Freddy is gone. Alice, the asthmatic Sheila and athletic Debbie are part of the same group at school. Kristen's ability to draw people into her dreams passes to Alice, and Freddy uses the power she carries to reach a new group of teenagers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
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- James Cameron asked Renny Harlin how Freddy Krueger was being resurrected for The Dream Master; Harlin replied "a dog pisses fire", as producer Rachel Talalay recounted.
- With New Line desperate for both a script and a director, Mike De Luca begged Brian Helgeland to try; he wrote the script for The Dream Master in nine days at his parents' house and sent it by FedEx.
- Tom McLoughlin turned down directing The Dream Master after Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives because he wanted creative control and New Line, which had already begun filming without any director, refused.
- Patricia Arquette, whose debut role was Kristen Parker in Dream Warriors, reportedly turned down a hefty offer to reprise it, favoring dramatic roles; Tuesday Knight was recast as Kristen in The Dream Master.
- Over 600 actresses auditioned for Alice in The Dream Master; Lisa Wilcox won the part after failing her audition for the previous film, Dream Warriors.
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The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike forced Renny Harlin and the producers to improvise during filming, and Lisa Wilcox and Andras Jones wrote their own dialogue for Alice and Rick while watching their old home videos.- Sinéad O'Connor's song "I Want Your (Hands on Me)" had a license fee twice that of the other songs because of her rising MTV success, but producer Bob Shaye relented and the song was used twice in the film.
- The Dream Master's $12,883,403 opening weekend was the biggest opening for an independent release at the time and the first film launched that late in the summer to gross more than $10 million.
