The fifth film in the series is probably the least popular next to the second movie, as it really becomes all about the effects and shows little focus on story.
The confusing attempt at a storyline sees Freddy enter the dreams of Alice’s unborn child in order to slaughter some more teens in their dreams in increasingly bizarre ways.
The film moves really quickly and does benefit from a good score and some leftover character nostalgia from part four, but we never really get to know the new characters before they are killed off, except Yvonne who is high on the fans ‘characters who should have died but lived’ lists.
The performances are fine and I did kind of enjoy the comic book sequence, but this one was all about the gags and did actually become too weird as time wore on to be fully enjoyable.
OVERALL SUMMARY
It was good to see them keep on trying to come up with new scenarios, but you could tell underneath it all that Bob Shaye was just concerned with extensive effects sequences to get bums in seats.
