A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

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]

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.

Surprisingly watchable for the third sequel and despite its general predictability it's entertainingly inventive.

Elm Street 4' does have an endless onslaught of astonishing, often grotesque special effects .Mr. Harlin only has to keep things moving, which he does with restless camera work, swirling high above Freddy and his victims. Freddy, who says I am eternal, seems to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, immune to directors and scripts.

It seems that with Part 4, Freddy Krueger has just about run out of gas. Getting further and further away from creator Wes Craven's original concept, the series has declined into a plotless series of special-effects set pieces featuring Freddy slicing and dicing a variety of teenagers in their dreams. What the films lack in narrative, however, they make up for with pure cinematic panache, and the latest installment is no exception.

As always, the teen actors are disposable, and even Robert Englund seems to be sleepwalking through Freddy. In the best Nightmares, Parts 1 and 3, the bad dreams not only made sense, but reinforced the idea of pattern psychosis and brought viewers into the dreamscapes. In 4 they're just cold splashes in the face.

The movie is heavy on shock and gimmickry, thanks to Renny Harlin's frenetic and flamboyant direction. The wafer-thin plot is little more than an excuse to showcase the astonishing achievements of special-effects makeup artists. [19 Aug 1988, p.D9]

roteiro mesmo que um pouco estranho é bem construido e escrito,personagens fortes e um vilão incrivelmente carismatico e aterrorizante.

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I do think that the third movie is better than this one, but this was way better than what I was expecting it to be. Nightmare on Elm Street movies always have good special effects and Freddy is always funny. Alice took on a big role in the movie, taking control of her dream and finally becoming the dream master. I thought this movie was entertaining, and I liked how they brought back some of the old cast from the third movie to play in this one. Again, the first one still takes the cake for being the best movie out of the franchise and there will probably not be another Freddy movie that beats the first one.

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It’s Alright It’s just your typical horror movie to watch on a boring day I guess.