A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) on Netflix
Pregnant Alice Johnson, who survived Freddy Krueger's killing spree, finds him reaching through her unborn child's dreams. She seeks a way to stop him before he returns to the waking world.
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Plot summary
Alice Johnson has survived Freddy Krueger's earlier killing spree. She is now in a relationship with Dan Jordan and graduating from high school with her friends Greta Gibson, Mark Gray, and Yvonne Miller. Alice begins having visions of a nun named Amanda Krueger inside a strange asylum, where she witnesses Amanda giving birth to a deformed baby. When Alice learns she is pregnant with Dan's child, Freddy starts reaching through her unborn baby's dreams. The dream killer wants to be reborn into the real world, and her friends are pulled into the dreams. Alice tries to learn what connects Freddy to Amanda while protecting her child from his reach.
Cast
- Michael Ashtonas Gurney Orderly
- Beatrice Boeppleas Amanda Krueger
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- New Line executive Sara Risher was pregnant when the idea of a newborn Freddy Krueger clawing his way out of a woman's womb was raised, and she objected to it; only after giving birth did she begin developing the storyline, leading to The Dream Child in late 1988.
- Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson wrote and performed "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter" for the film, and a later version re-recorded with Iron Maiden became the band's only number-one single in the UK when released in December 1990.
