Smell the Movies
Smell the TV
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| Year: | 1989 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Stephen Hopkins |
| Genre: | Franchise gone bad. |
| Starring: | Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox and Kelly Jo Minter |
| Rating: | 1/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097981/ |
| Tagline: | It's A Boy! |
| Favourite line: | None worth mentioning |
Part 5 of a horror franchise is a worryingly large number, so it can't be any good right?
Quite right.
The plot: Alice, erstwhile survivor of the 4th installment is with child, and Our Hero Freddy never misses a trick, back to stalking the young folk through the dreams of the slumbering infant.
And by Christ, the fact that the cypher through which Freddy is reanimated is a child is pertinent, as this is deeply immature, puerile nonsense.
Long gone is the genuine menace of parts 1 & 2, and even the outright sickness of the death sequences of part 3 - remember those needles? In there place comes a series of increasingly surreal set-pieces that sees Freddy transform a motorbike into his own image, stuff a vacuous bint with so much food her cheeks all but explode and, in the most disappointing of them all, kill a comic artist by turning him into paper and chopping him into small pieces.
Quick, hand me the cushion, I must hide me eyes from such horror.
It's clear that the writers, by this point, had ran out of any decent ideas and, instead of just giving up and saying 'No more,' they decided to hurl as much excrement at the screen in the hope that some of it would stick.
Freddy's characterisation is laughably bad, the realisation of those he is stalking piss poor and, to cap it all, the volume of the movie from start to finish is so blazingly loud if you don't reach the closing credits with a severe migraine you have a stronger constitution than I.
Absolutely worthless.
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