What can you say about a movie where the director, Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, Judgement Night), says "What started out as an OK film with a few good bits turned into a total embarrassment. I can't even watch it anymore."?
A year after the last film, the returning Alice (Lisa Wilcox) and Dan (Danny Hassel) have been dating and seen no sign of Freddy until a shower turns into Alice going back in time to witness the creation of Freddy by the maniacs of the asylum. She tries to forget the dream as she's graduating high school the next day, along with comic book lover Mark, model Greta (Erika Anderson, Twin Peaks) and aspiring nurse Yvonne (Kelly Jo Minter, Maria, the video store clerk from The Lost Boys).
The dreams don't go away, with Alice witnessing the birth of a Freddy baby that makes its way to the church from the last film. He tells her he's learned how to come back to life, just at the moment that he kills Dan. At the same time, she also learns that she's pregnant with her dead boyfriend's child.
No one believes that Freddy is after Alice, but Greta soon is killed by being forced to overeat in her dreams. Oh yeah -- Alice is also seeing a fully grown boy she calls Jacob who she believes is her future son. Freddy is feeding his victims to her unborn baby -- who yes, is also Jacob -- to make him evil.
There is an imaginative scene where Freddy kills Mark within a comic book world, as well as the world that Freddy lives in now. But the ending, where Amanda Krueger seals away Freddy and Jacob decides to stay with his mother amidst strange puppet heads gets a little ridiculous. Actually, this entire movie is, supposing that teens we'd want to watch a movie about the terrors of teen pregnancy mixed with the terrors of being an Elm Street teenager.
Supposedly, there's an uncut version of this movie that's never been released that would change a lot of people's opinions on the film. I'll watch it again if that ever comes out. Yes, I know there was an unrate VHS release but supposedly there's even more missing.
Maybe it'd be a better film if New Line had given the director more than four weeks to work on it. And get this -- the poster was released before the producers had a clear idea what the movie was going to be about, other than the idea that Freddy would be a fetus and the title would be The Dream Child.
A year after the last film, the returning Alice (Lisa Wilcox) and Dan (Danny Hassel) have been dating and seen no sign of Freddy until a shower turns into Alice going back in time to witness the creation of Freddy by the maniacs of the asylum. She tries to forget the dream as she's graduating high school the next day, along with comic book lover Mark, model Greta (Erika Anderson, Twin Peaks) and aspiring nurse Yvonne (Kelly Jo Minter, Maria, the video store clerk from The Lost Boys).
The dreams don't go away, with Alice witnessing the birth of a Freddy baby that makes its way to the church from the last film. He tells her he's learned how to come back to life, just at the moment that he kills Dan. At the same time, she also learns that she's pregnant with her dead boyfriend's child.
No one believes that Freddy is after Alice, but Greta soon is killed by being forced to overeat in her dreams. Oh yeah -- Alice is also seeing a fully grown boy she calls Jacob who she believes is her future son. Freddy is feeding his victims to her unborn baby -- who yes, is also Jacob -- to make him evil.
There is an imaginative scene where Freddy kills Mark within a comic book world, as well as the world that Freddy lives in now. But the ending, where Amanda Krueger seals away Freddy and Jacob decides to stay with his mother amidst strange puppet heads gets a little ridiculous. Actually, this entire movie is, supposing that teens we'd want to watch a movie about the terrors of teen pregnancy mixed with the terrors of being an Elm Street teenager.
Supposedly, there's an uncut version of this movie that's never been released that would change a lot of people's opinions on the film. I'll watch it again if that ever comes out. Yes, I know there was an unrate VHS release but supposedly there's even more missing.
Maybe it'd be a better film if New Line had given the director more than four weeks to work on it. And get this -- the poster was released before the producers had a clear idea what the movie was going to be about, other than the idea that Freddy would be a fetus and the title would be The Dream Child.