A Nightmare on Elm Street Part V

                                                              

 

                                "His birth was a curse on the whole of humanity."

 

The fifth film begins with Alice (Lisa Wilcox), the heroine from part 4, dreaming about Freddy, or more specifically the night when his mother (Amanda Krueger) was accidentally locked in the local asylum for the weekend. However the nightmare doesn't stop there....she further witnesses the re-birth of...yes you guessed it.....Freddy. The woman who gave birth to Freddy turns out to be a nun, Sister Mary Helen, and in this film she is the key to stopping Freddy as he goes on with his duty of killing the local teenagers. This is a particularly good time for him as the town is full of available souls - its graduation day and Alice and all of her friends are set for a celebratory night to remember!!!

Alice's boyfriend (Dan - who also survived in Part 4) dies in a motorcycle accident (anything to do with Freddy???) yet Alice cant understand how Krueger had got to him when she hadn’t been sleeping. The big question at this point is how on earth is Freddy using her to pull kids into the dreamworld?? and the answer provides an excellent twist to this plot, Alice is pregnant, and therefore Freddy is using her babies dreams to pull in his victims. The film takes on yet more bizarre twists when Alice meets her son (Jacob) in the dreamworld. Jacob has a friend in this world, uncle Freddy, and with Freddy's generous donation of souls to her unborn child it isn't hard to see what Freddy's intentions are.

It is up to the mysterious nun's spirit, (aka Freddy's dead mother) Alice and her unborn son to end Freddy's reign of terror...yet with Mr Krueger in blistering form and a great skill in returning from the dead in a variety of ways, will he ever be truly dead???

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Directed by Stephen Hopkins
Produced by Robert Shaye
Written by Leslie Bohem
Starring Erika Anderson
Beatrice Boepple
Lisa Wilcox
Robert Englund
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) August 11, 1989
Running time 89 minutes
Language English

 

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