History Trivia / ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild

* FranchiseKiller: ''The Dream Child'' was so reviled that it was decided to kill Freddy in the next movie, which is ironically even more reviled than The Dream Child.

** Rachel Talalay, producer of the first four films and director of ''FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'', was involved in the pre-production of the film, but abandoned production because she was busy with other New Line projects. She criticized the film for being too serious and because Stephen Hopkins was a director more concerned with the visual than with the plot.

** Rachel Talalay, producer of the first four films and director of ''Freddy's Dead'', was involved in the pre-production of the film, but abandoned production because she was busy with other New Line projects. She criticized the film for being too serious and because Stephen Hopkins was a director more concerned with the visual than with the plot.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Actually a aversion of this trope. The movie has been seen as a box office bomb, however contrary to popular belief and per Creator/RobertEnglund this film actually did do well but it didn't make the money part 4 had grossed to which New Line had expected it to at least be equal to that.

** Erika Anderson criticized the film in ''Never Sleep Again'' for not being scary and straying from the series' roots.

* BoxOfficeBomb: The movie has been seen as a box office bomb. However contrary to popular belief and per Creator/RobertEnglund this film actually did do well but it didn't make the money part 4 had grossed to which New Line had expected it to at least be equal to that.

* BoxOfficeBomb: The movie has been seen as a box office bomb. However contrary to popular belief and per Creator/RobertEnglund this film actually did do well but it didn't make the money 4 had grossed to which New line had expected it to at least be equal to that.

** In the penultimate battle scene when Jacob [[spoiler: kills Freddy by unleashing the powers that were inherited by him]], the line Jacob was originally scripted as him saying [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck you, Kruger!"]] but due to Whitby Hertford's age during filming the line was re-written as "School's out, Kruger!"

* OldShame: For co-writers John Skipp and Craig Spector. Apparently, the only thing from their version of the script that survived to the finished product was Freddy saying "It's a boy!" after his resurrection.

*** Ginger appeared to be a prototype of Greta, and suffered from actual bulimia and a sleazy manager named Buddy instead of a domineering StageMom. She would've died much later in the film with a two-stage nightmare. First, she appears in Club MTV only for Freddy to turn her into a grotesquely fat pig monster, before she starts puking blood. After waking up from that part, Freddy appears and guts her open in a way similar to Tina's death from the first movie, with the police thinking Buddy actually did it.

** Dan lasted longer in the earlier script, with him living long enough for him to learn Alice is pregnant and figuring out what to do afterwards. He's also shown arguing with his parents, whom believe Alice is mentally ill due to her past trauma. While Dan's death still involves Freddy-controlled motorcycle, Dan's bike is simply rammed into a tree branch and he's impaled. Following his death, Dan's parents make it clear at his funeral that they don't want anything to do with her or her baby.

* [[BoxOfficeBomb Box Office Failure]]: While the film made enough money at the box office to warrant [[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare another sequel]] (Budget, $6 Million. Box office, $22.2 Million), ''The Dream Child'' managed to gross less than its [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster predecessor]], subsequently breaking the ongoing record of each film out-grossing the last.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The unrated cut of the film, which has the more gruesome versions of Dan and Greta’s deaths, has never made it onto any other format aside from VHS. The closest it got to being on DVD and Blu-ray were snippets on the ''Never Sleep Again'' documentary, reportedly due to problems with the original film masters.

** Alice's pregnancy was going to advance rapidly thanks to the energy Freddy was infusing in her unborn child.

* CreatorBacklash: Rachel Talalay, producer of the first four films and director of ''Freddy's Dead'', was involved in the pre-production of the film, but abandoned production because she was busy with other New Line projects. She criticized the film for being too serious and because Stephen Hopkins was a director more concerned with the visual than with the plot.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The unrated cut of the film, which has the more gruesome versions of Dan and Greta’s deaths, has never made it onto any other format aside from VHS. The closest it got to being on DVD and Blu-ray were snippets on the ''Never Sleep Again'' documentary.

** During post-production, test screenings had scenes that were considered so disgusting that they had large chunks of them left on the cutting room floor. The "Freddy Bike" scene had even more shots of Dan's skin being ripped away graphically, and the infamous scene where Freddy force feeds Greta tons of disgusting food made of her innards had a shot that panned down to reveal Freddy ripping her insides out as she ate. The scenes ''still haven't shown up on Blu-ray or DVD today'' (though some snippets made their way on the ''Never Sleep Again'' documentary). Heavy cutting was needed to keep the film from receiving the then-new NC-17 rating.