A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Released - 1988
Genre - Horror, Fantasy
Director - Renny Harlin
Starring - Robert Englund, Tuesday Knight, Lisa Wilcox, Andras Jones

Back in 1988 the slasher film was nearing death. The meteoric rise of characters like Freddy Krueger was beginning to tail off and would soon take a nose dive. Quality control had completely gone from the genre as anyone looking to make a quick buck copied the formula and churned out their own low budget horror. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master accelerated Freddy's disappearance from our cinema screens by focusing on set piece special fx laden death scenes and turning a blind eye to the wooden acting and non-existent plot. Amazingly this was the most successful Nightmare film at the box office but it never comes close to capturing the visceral fear of the original film.

Bodycount - 6

Gore - a fair bit of gore and the death scenes are all imaginative

Related Links - A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5, A Nightmare on Elm Street 6, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Wes Craven, Freddy Krueger

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