Fear Flashbacks! – Freddy loses some of his edge as A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD underwhelms at the box office

Eventually, you have to wake up from the dream, bitch.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD is generally seen as the first serious misstep in the franchise. As alluded to in this AP article from the summer of 1989, the sequel took it in the shorts in the wake of Freddy’s media overexposure at the time. Netting only $22 million domestically, the film earned less than half of Krueger’s tasty take for DREAM WARRIORS ($45 million) or THE DREAM MASTER ($50 million).

Here, Robert Englund’s spidey sense is tingling, urging him in other directions that would allow him to do other films like the remake of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the unjustly-maligned Andrew Dice Clay vehicle THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE, and Tobe Hooper’s adaptation of Stephen King’s short story THE MANGLER. However, none of those films did anything to sway the public from his iconic portrayal of the Bastard Son of a Hundred Maniacs.

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