"That is no creature of God!"
- The funny thing about Dream Child is that while it's not one of the most fondly remembered of the sequels, there were large portions of the film considered so horrible and disgusting that they had to be cut out. Those scenes came out of Dan and Greta's respective deaths, with Dan being forcibly merged with the motorcycle he's driving, and Greta being force fed her own organs before Krueger chokes her to death. The death scenes were featured on old VHS tapes and Laserdisc and do not disappoint, featuring content such as:
- More emphasis on Krueger shoving wires into Dan's body and under his skin, the fact that Dan's blood was replaced with gasoline until his remaining skin became dry and ripped away, to Dan's face being torn off and wires inserted into his skull.
- The reveal that all this time Krueger had actually been clawing out parts of Greta's stomach and intestinal tract and feeding them to her, until he basically digs his claws into her abdomen and rips out a large chunk just to show it to her. Holy hell.Freddy: You are what you eat!
- Coming off this, when it's revealed that Greta is being force fed her own organs the film shows that the entire layer of skin covering said organs has been removed and they're exposed for all to see. When Freddy jams his claws into her stomach, they've been rendered... mushy and basically drip off his claw like some disgusting brown glop.
- Greta's death is one of the few nightmares to feature an engaged audience, as dream versions of her mother and the party guests all laugh and mock her as Freddy gores her open and chokes her. Not helped at all is the juxtaposition with their real world counterparts, who choose to stare at Greta in confusion even though the poor girl's clearly choking. The dream version of Racine Gibson appears especially giddy and manic, her eyes wide open in delight as Greta begs for help.Dream!Racine: Nothing but the best for Greta! Don't talk with your mouth full, dear!
- This entire sequence focuses an inordinate amount of time from Greta's point of view, giving us a good look at Freddy's horrifically leering face staring right at the viewer. Really, this entire section of the film more than made up for whatever else the movie failed at in terms of being unsettling and horrific.
- Literally from this line.Freddy: Fuel injection!
- Greta's hideously swollen face in her dream, caused not just from the "food" Freddy is making her eat, but her own vomit as well.
- Mark's death scene on so, so many levels:
- Some might find the idea of a person being turned into paper funny, especially if you've watched those Go Gurt commercials with that premise. So when Mark gets turned into paper by Krueger, it ought to be somewhat amusing, right? WRONG. At least the kids from those "Slurp till it's Flat" ads could move while also retaining their colors. All Mark can do is flail around helplessly while HIS colors slowly BLEED out until they come to form a multicolored puddle around his feet. Not helping is the way he SCREAMS in absolute horror at what he's become, with a look of pure terror on his face. And the music playing in the background: gloomy and dark. It's no wonder that Mark's death scene comes off as one of the darkest and also saddest death scenes from the entire franchise, considering that for a moment there, it looked like Mark actually beat Krueger.
- And the way Freddy just keeps shredding him to pieces while laughing his head off sadistically and doesn't let up for a good minute as the whole dreamscape collapses around Mark. Just, yeesh.
- It becomes even more disturbing when you think about what Mark's mutilated body must've looked like in reality given how thorough Freddy was with slicing him to pieces in the dream world, as all we saw was a bloodied hand.
- The opening sequence focuses on Alice experiencing what happened to Amanda Krueger when she'd been raped by the maniacs in Westin Hills. This includes a lingering shot of one inmate played by Robert Englund, who also appears briefly to torment Alice when she seemingly wakes up.
- After Alice goes on a rant calling Freddy a coward for not facing her or his mother, it suddenly cuts to Freddy looking absolutely pissed off and starts to approach Alice growling in fury. It's one of the few times in the later films Freddy isn't playing games and is terrifying without being funny.
- The Freddy baby pictured above that shows up in the opening recreation of his birth. It also returns at the end when Krueger is turned back into it before being absorbed by Amanda Krueger. Though after she does his adult, clawed arm bursts out of her abdomen while desperately trying to escape her.
- Freddy's portrayal in this film is one of the most divisive elements discussed by fans, who argued trying to combine his more hammier traits from Dream Master with the darker atmosphere of the first film and Freddy's Revenge didn't mesh well. However, the brutality and sadism of the deaths in this movie coupled with how hard it works at making Dan, Greta, and Mark both sympathetic and likable, puts Freddy's jokes in a sinister new light. Rather than being meant to be seen as comedic as he was in Dream Master, Freddy's one-liners and jokes as he repeatedly tortures his victims only serves to make him as abhorrent and loathsome as he was always meant to be viewed when Wes Craven created him.
- The very fact that Freddy's defeat doesn't lull us into thinking he's been destroyed like all the other films did. All Alice and Amanda can do is keep Freddy locked up and drained of energy so he's not a threat. But to do this, Amanda has to absorb Freddy into her body and keep the two of them sealed in the dream world. The very last we see of Amanda is her screaming and struggling while Freddy's bladed hand reaches out of her, trying to break free. This movie cemented Freddy wasn't so much a ghost or demon, but a malicious force of destruction that can't be fully destroyed.
