A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
Directed by Stephen Hopkins
The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
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While King’s book was set in the Fifties, the film loses little in its updating to 1989 and indeed employs a cinematically sublime specificity of time and place – A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is on the local bijou’s marquee – in the seemingly bucolic but small Maine township of Derry.
Best of all, Pennywise is every bit as threatening here, a supernatural pall whose paint-faced circus visage superficially shields a monster.The specificity of the movie's era (" A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child " is playing at the local theater during the August scenes) and location (Derry is fictional, but widely based on King's real-life stomping ground of Bangor, ME) only adds to the vividness of its plot, and it is a testament to the screenplay that the alterations made from the author's text (like updating the time period from the late-1950s to the late-'80s) are never needless, used to benefit the telling of this particular version of the story.