History Film / ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild

* GoodParents: [[spoiler: Dennis Jordan TookALevelInKindness and sobered up for his and Alice's sake. He firmly stands by Alice, and even though he doesn't believe in Freddy, does what he can to help.]] Also, Mark's dad seems to be a pretty decent person, compared to Dan's parents who are loving but too controlling, and Greta's StageMom.

* PapaWolf: Dennis Jordan does ''not'' appreciate it when Dan's parents threaten to bring Alice to court to gain custody of their grandchild.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Freddy is defeated by the same power he has been planting on Jacob.

* MyBelovedSmother: Racine Gibson, Greta's mom, which is mixed in with StageMom.

** Greta would've come across as a sweet girl, but other than the idea that her mother is rich and she wants to be a model, she never gives off a vibe that she really cares about money or fame. She [[spoiler: quietly mourns Dan's death the night it occurs]] and is disgusted at her mother's callousness. Even though she doesn't believe Freddy is real, rather than tell Alice she's crazy, she assures Alice she's in her corner.

''A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child'' is the fifth ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' film, released in the year 1989.

* AdultsAreUseless: Greta's mother Racine, who is downright unsympathetic to the fact that her daughter has lost close friends. [[spoiler:And during Greta's death scene it appears as though she's violently choking, yet her mother and the people at the dinner party all simply stare at her. It isn't until she falls face first into her salad, dead, that her mother and the party-goers check if she's alright.]]

* {{Archenemy}}: The film presents Alice as Freddy's, mainly because she was too powerful for him to control, and his empty threats and taunts seem to be his pathetic way of expressing his hatred of her.

-->'''Freddy:''' Hi Alice, want to make babies?

-->'''Nun''': Sister, this is one of God's creatures. Take solace in that.\\
'''Amanda''': That is ''no'' creature of God!

* NiceGuy: Mark, and Greta as NiceGirl:

--->'''Greta''': The bottom line Alice, is that if anyone is out to get you, supernatural or otherwise, they're gonna have to go through us first.

-->'''Racine''': Greta, you're being offered the opportunity of a lifetime. I think you should show a little gratitude?
-->'''Greta''': One of my friends ''died'' yesterday, mother. Do you mind if I take a few minutes off to remember him?
-->'''Racine''': But we're at a party, dear.

* CassandraTruth: Yvonne is the only one of Alice's friends who doesn't believe her about Freddy... until Freddy herself comes after her and Alice bails her out.

** Greta would've come across as SpoiledSweet, but other than the idea that her mother is rich and she wants to be a model, she never gives off a vibe that she really cares about money or fame. She [[spoiler: quietly mourns Dan's death the night it occurs]] and is disgusted at her mother's callousness. Even though she doesn't believe Freddy is real, rather than tell Alice she's crazy, she assures Alice she's in her corner.

* BodyHorror: Lots. [[spoiler: Dan is fused with a motorcycle, Greta is force fed until her cheeks swell up to a grotesque size from her vomit and we then find out Krueger is carving out her organs and feeding them to her, and then much later Krueger begins to emerge out of Alice's body in a horrifying fusion of the two.]]

* GargleBlaster: In [[spoiler:Dan's]] nightmare, Freddy drinks a bottle of wine, and promptly spits it out onto the dashboard, which dissolves it on contact. Freddy proceeds to use it to melt off his right arm to [[ItMakesSenseInContact use as a seatbelt]].

* FetusTerrible: Freddy's aim is to turn Jacob into this, by feeding him the souls of his victims to make Jacob like himself.

* ItCameFromTheFridge: After [[spoiler:Greta]] has been force-fed to death in her dream, we cut to Alice going to fetch her father a drink in the fridge. When she opens it, the food rots in front of her eyes (and an eyeball even shows up on them) before her dead friend suddenly bursts out of the fridge, only to be dragged back inside by Freddy Krueger. The fridge closes, is opened again, and everything is back to normal. For added insult, when the fridge closes, there's a test on the fridge door with the words "Fuck You" written on it. It's held by a Freddy magnet.

* MamaBear: Alice Johnson. She refused to let Freddy use her unborn child as a means to continuing murdering innocents, and she refused to abort Jacob just to stop Freddy. Granted she worded it that he was the last link to Dan she had, but even before she knew the truth about him she demonstrated concern for him and told him that she cared about him.

** This is probably one of the least comedic movies in the series, and has some absolutely ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath mean]]'' deaths. Weirdly enough the movie while it definitely seems to be trying to go back to the more serious roots of the first one, still has scenes of Freddy constantly spouting one liners and even has a comic book death scene for one of it's characters.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This is probably one of the least comedic movies in the series, and has some absolutely ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath mean]]'' deaths. Weirdly enough the movie while it definitely seems to be trying to go back to the more serious roots of the first one, still has scenes of Freddy constantly spouting one liners and even has a comic book death scene for one of it's characters.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This is probably one of the least comedic movies in the series, and has some absolutely ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath mean]]'' deaths. Weirdly enough the movie while it definitely seems to be trying to go back to the more serious roots of the first one, still has scenes of Freddy spouting one liners and has a comic book death scene.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This is probably one of the least comedic movies in the series, and has some absolutely ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath mean]]'' deaths.

'''''A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child''''' is the fifth ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' film, released in the year 1989.

* SpoiledSweet: Subverted with Greta, who doesn't really show any signs of being spoiled despite being rich.

* ClockTower: Amanda's body is hidden inside the Westin Hills' clock tower.

* ForceFeeding: Freddy force feeds [[spoiler:Greta]] to the point of choking.

* EvilIsPetty: Freddy frequently goes out of his way to taunt Alice but flaunting his kills in front of her and just plain harassing her when he can. However, this seems to be because he genuinely hates her and is actually unable to really do anything to her because if he does, he could end up hurting Jacob.

Because of his mother's restless spirit is still trapped in the land of the living, Freddy Krueger "finds the key" to return to the teens' dreamscapes. As if that wasn't enough, he also decides to enter the real world by possessing Alice's baby, who is yet to be born, feeding him the souls of those whom he has killed.

* ParentalNeglect: Racine Gibson pretty much lived in her own little world. When Greta is being offered a modeling job at a dinner party and she is pretty much uninterested due to a lack of sleep and the fact that she's still reeling from [[spoiler: Dan's]] death, we get this little scene:

* [[spoiler: SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Dan.]]

* AdultsAreUseless: Greta's mother Racine, who is downright unsympathetic to the fact that her daughter has lost close friends.
** Also the scene of [[spoiler:Greta]]'s death. In the real world it appears as though she's violently choking, yet her mother and the people at the dinner party all simply stare at her. It isn't until she falls face first into her salad, dead, that her mother and the party-goers check if she's alright.

* ItCameFromTheFridge: After [[spoiler:Greta]] has been force-fed to death in her dream, we cut to Alice going to fetch her father a drink in the fridge. When she opens it, the food rots in front of her eyes (and an eyeball even shows up on them) before her dead friend suddenly bursts out of the fridge, only to be dragged back inside by Freddy Krueger. The fridge closes, is opened again, and everything is back to normal.
** For added insult, when the fridge closes, there's a test on the fridge door with the words "Fuck You" written on it. It's held by a Freddy magnet.

* {{Fainting}}: Mark in a dream faints when he sees blood on his hands.
* FinalGirl: Alice Johnson.

* HiddenDepths: Greta, a rich girl who hopes to be a model and is at odds with her domineering mother Racine. Following [[spoiler:Dan Jordan]]'s death, it cuts to a scene of Greta looking at his picture in the yearbook and crying over it. This gives her depth in the sense that she truly cared about Dan, and her friends, and was more than a total knockout.