After the wild, funhouse-like Dream Master, Freddy returns in The Dream Child, but it's a lot less fun this time. It turns out that The Dream Master's survivors, Alice and Dan, are going to have a baby and Freddy sees this as an opportunity to take a few more victims by getting into the baby's dreams.
It's an interesting concept and there are several really excellent moments, but something feels tired and lethargic about it. To be fair, the first act is fairly solid, but it starts getting really slow in the middle of the film with only a murder or two to spice things up. Thankfully, the murders (there seems to be a very small body count this time around) are fittingly fantastical with a girl being turned into a doll and force fed her intestines being particularly gruesome.
Lisa Wilcox still makes for a great heroine even if the material is a bit more dour this time around. Freddy seems to have lost a bit of his jokey quips this time, too, which is a welcome relief.
It's an interesting concept and there are several really excellent moments, but something feels tired and lethargic about it. To be fair, the first act is fairly solid, but it starts getting really slow in the middle of the film with only a murder or two to spice things up. Thankfully, the murders (there seems to be a very small body count this time around) are fittingly fantastical with a girl being turned into a doll and force fed her intestines being particularly gruesome.
Lisa Wilcox still makes for a great heroine even if the material is a bit more dour this time around. Freddy seems to have lost a bit of his jokey quips this time, too, which is a welcome relief.