Freddy Reborn! And also, Freddy Origins! The Dream Master’s survivor Alice (Lisa Wilcox) has a bun in the oven and a certain crispy, razor-gloved lunatic has a plan. The sleeping mind of the developing fetus is allowing Freddy (Englund) to continue on with his dream-related shenanigans, making contact with the one that managed to get away and using her abilities to continue on with his campaign of terror. This baby-to-be also serves as a means for Krueger to get his ugly ass reborn into this world. Alice has been having dreams about a nun coming to an awful fate… there’s a reason they call Freddy “the bastard son of a hundred maniacs” and it’s fortunately not explicitly presented but still nauseating. The unfortunate mother of the dream demon, Amanda, may be the key needed to defeat the monster for good but Alice and the recent batch of high school graduates in her friend circle may not last long enough for any kind of happy ending. A very dark undercurrent is awkwardly agitated by the wise-cracking villain slaughtering the attractive youths in ridiculous ways. I mean, it is what the audience paid for but it seems like there was a refreshingly bleak and weird vibe this flick was going for that it keeps stumbling over thanks to how it presents its star attraction. The Freddy the public wants just doesn’t fit into the story the movie wants to tell. So, it makes for an awkward time. Some of the visuals are impressive and even atmospheric at a few points and the cast is solid in the usual fashion this series was shockingly good at (hell, they even develop Alice’s alcoholic dad from the prior outing and that’s just unexpectedly great) but it truly feels like there was a better movie buried underneath all the excess. Again, it’s not a problem because you know what you’re getting into when you throw on an Elm Street movie and it’s not a bad addition to the series, there was just something different in the works that couldn’t be realized thanks to what the audience (but let’s be honest here, more likely the studio) expected.
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