Storyline
Dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen, who can draw others into her dreams, wills her special ability to her friend Alice. Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power to pull a new group of children into his foul domain.
Directors
Cast
Renny Harlin, Robert Shaye, Robert Englund, Ken Sagoes, Rodney Eastman, Brooke Bundy, Kristen Clayton, Jeff Levine, Tuesday Knight, Lisa Wilcox, Andras Jones, Danny Hassel, Brooke Theiss, Toy Newkirk, Nicholas Mele, Hope Marie Carlton, Mickey Yablans, Linnea Quigley, Duane Davis, Jacquelyn Masche, Richard Garrison, John Beckman, Jody Montana, Cheryl Richardson, Joie Magidow, Joanna Lipari, Wanda Bursey, Kisha Brackel, Pat O'Neal
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Reviews
80
Variety
Robert Englund, receiving star billings for the first time, is delightful in his frequent incarnations as Freddy, delivering his gag lines with relish and making the grisly proceedings funny.
80
Los Angeles Times
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is by far the best of the series, a superior horror picture that balances wit and gore with imagination and intelligence. It very effectively mirrors the anxieties of the teen-age audience for which it is primarily intended. [19 Aug 1988, p.17]
75
Directed by the Finnish-born Renny Harlin, it's a deft, fluid piece that rushes from one surrealist epiphany to the next, and along the way displays a craft and imagination far above the norms for the genre.
60
Harlin's arsenal of conceits and visual effects--pirouetting overhead angles, dancing trigonometry formulas, a pizza flavored with tiny human heads, a lot of fancy play with a water bed, and much, much more--keeps it consistently watchable and inventive.
60
Empire
Surprisingly watchable for the third sequel and despite its general predictability it's entertainingly inventive.
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