A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream MasterA Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
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It’s time for a new episode of the Real Slashers video series, and with this one we’re looking back at a film that celebrates its 35th anniversary this year: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (watch it HERE)! To watch The Dream Master get the Real Slashers treatment, check out the video embedded above.

Directed by Renny Harlin from a screenplay by Brian Helgeland, Ken Wheat, and Jim Wheat (with Helgeland also sharing story credit with William Kotzwinkle), A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master has the following synopsis: Your fave psycho-sandman is back! It’s the one-man-sleep-disorder, the unspeakably demonic Freddy Krueger, returning with a vengeance in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master! But wait. This time around, the fiendishly Freddy is up against a powerful new adversary! After beautiful young Alice sees the remaining Elm Street kids succumb one by one to Freddy’s razor-edged wrath, she embarks on a desperate mission to release the tortured souls of Freddy’s victims once and for all. Can this lone “Dream Master” defeat the satanic dream-stalker? Or will she have to wake up to the fact that no one is ever really ready… for Freddy? A special-effects-filled descent into sheer, unrelenting terror!

The film stars Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Tuesday Knight, Ken Sagoes, Rodney Eastman, Brooke Theiss, Andras Jones, Toy Newkirk, Nicholas Mele, and Brooke Bundy, with Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. Plus a cameo appearance by Linnea Quigley as a soul in Freddy’s chest.

Here’s what Real Slashers is all about: Ahhh the 80’s. A simpler time where the blood ran red, the boobies swung freely, and the weed was copiously smoked. A time where rampant killers were simply excuses for excessive sex and over the top murder. Yes, we’re looking at an era where the slasher movie ran wild over cinemas everywhere. Today, we’re looking at “Real Slashers.”

The show is Written, Narrated, and Edited by Tyler Nichols, Produced by John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

What do you think of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, and how did you like this episode of Real Slashers? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I wouldn’t say The Dream Master is the best of the Elm Street movies, but it is my favorite one to watch.

A couple of the previous episodes of Real Slashers can be seen below. To see more, and to check out some of our other shows, head over to the JoBlo Horror Originals channel – and subscribe while you’re at it!

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