30 Day Horror Movie Challenge Day 22: Best Death Scene
Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Stephen Hopkins, 1991)
The Dream Child is one of the worst instalments in the franchise, basically feeling like a rehash of the original, with the addition of people able to run into pictures and a baby. Oh, and don't get me started on that weird "Freddy's Birth" scene; it might be some sort of homage to Alien, but they didn't need to make Freddy anything other than human before he got killed.
For watchable Freddy Kreuger flashbacks, watch the somewhat better "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" (I know IMDB gave it 1/10 - they have no taste - for me, that one is worth watching).
However, The Dream Child contains one great death scene, just because it's quite novel, and it is the best part of and otherwise unremarkable movie. One of the characters likes drawing, so when he opens his comic book he finds that it contains scenes from the movie he's in, only in graphic novel form.
The fun begins for real when he gets sucked into the comic book he's reading though; the next few minutes are pretty epic - I just watched the scene again and there are a couple of bits I forgot, like him becoming a western hero and trying to shoot Freddy.
At the end, he gets turned into paper and is inevitably dispatched by Freddy, using his claws but in a non-gory effect; since he's just paper, there's no blood, which allows Freddy to go wild on him. It's just a shame the rest of the movie wasn't up to this standard, as it could have been the best instalment, instead of the second worst that I've seen (but I've not seen Freddy vs Jason).
Day 22-best death scene
Day 23- a great quote from a horror movie
Day 24- horror movie character that describes you
Day 25- favorite Christmas/ holiday horror movie
Day 26- horror movie for a chicken
Day 27-your guilty pleasure horror movie
Day 28- horror film you’d like to see remade/ rebooted
Day 29- worst horror movie
Day 30- your favorite all time horror movie
The Dream Child is one of the worst instalments in the franchise, basically feeling like a rehash of the original, with the addition of people able to run into pictures and a baby. Oh, and don't get me started on that weird "Freddy's Birth" scene; it might be some sort of homage to Alien, but they didn't need to make Freddy anything other than human before he got killed.
For watchable Freddy Kreuger flashbacks, watch the somewhat better "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" (I know IMDB gave it 1/10 - they have no taste - for me, that one is worth watching).
However, The Dream Child contains one great death scene, just because it's quite novel, and it is the best part of and otherwise unremarkable movie. One of the characters likes drawing, so when he opens his comic book he finds that it contains scenes from the movie he's in, only in graphic novel form.
The fun begins for real when he gets sucked into the comic book he's reading though; the next few minutes are pretty epic - I just watched the scene again and there are a couple of bits I forgot, like him becoming a western hero and trying to shoot Freddy.
At the end, he gets turned into paper and is inevitably dispatched by Freddy, using his claws but in a non-gory effect; since he's just paper, there's no blood, which allows Freddy to go wild on him. It's just a shame the rest of the movie wasn't up to this standard, as it could have been the best instalment, instead of the second worst that I've seen (but I've not seen Freddy vs Jason).
Click to viewDay 22-best death scene
Day 23- a great quote from a horror movie
Day 24- horror movie character that describes you
Day 25- favorite Christmas/ holiday horror movie
Day 26- horror movie for a chicken
Day 27-your guilty pleasure horror movie
Day 28- horror film you’d like to see remade/ rebooted
Day 29- worst horror movie
Day 30- your favorite all time horror movie