A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: Dream Master

 

             Moving right along into the continuation of the Nightmare on Elm Street marathon of madness. We continue with another group of Dream Warriors-ish, but only this time Freddy Kruger finally becomes the DREAM MASTER. After the success of the third installment, New Line Cinema, finally took some good notes on what made Dream Warriors a box-office success and acquired new blood of writers and directors in Brian Helgeland, mastermind behind great classics in L.A. Confidential, Payback, A Knight's Tale and 42. But more importantly is directed by a man who killed Geena Davis career as well as other movies especially one I do remember watching in the theaters.

             I'm just going to make this short and sweet, Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund) returns to haunt another set of kids in their dreams despite Freddy has pretty much killed almost everybody but try telling that to other murderers who kept on killing even when they went to the prison. 

             Wes Craven presented his own pitch for fourth Elm Street, sadly New Line turned it down and producers Sara Risher and Robert Shaye with the original Dream Master that succeed Dream Warriors. In Risher's own words, she explains "I approached Wes for an idea for the fourth film. I always go to Wes first each time. His idea was illogical. It was about time travel within dreams that broke all the rule of dreams." make a long story short they decided to go to a different approach for which lead to the Dream Master now, and really when you think about it this movie is much better than Wes's idea as much as I want to take the producers side in this scenario. Brian Helgeland was recommended Robert Englund after penning his first script for Englund's directorial debut "976-Evil", and so Helgeland took the entire Christmas back at his parents penning the entire script and then latter FedExes the script to New Line for which made his deadline a success, for which really we as a society evolved from packaging our scripts to Hollywood, when now we can just simply pen our scripts on our laptops and email it to the producers with email, all within two seconds. With Brian Helgeland penning the script you also have a director in Renly Harlin who directed a lot of mediocre movies that I strongly doubt anyone has even seen but if you want to talk about memorable movies he's directed, the man directed Cutthroat Island for which killed his wife Geena Davis's career. Not a whole lot to discuss because I'm making a point to let you all watch and enjoy these movies, but they do have a crazy Groundhog Day where the survivors are trying to race against time but are trapped in a strange time loop, in which strangely is funny. Of all the Nightmare films besides the original, Dream Master had the biggest box-office opening for which really, they must of did something right. All the sequels as a whole are not the most perfect movies you can watch and if that's what you’re looking for then you can just watch the original movies and call it good but really if you just binge on two movies together at a time, these movies are a treat to watch for many reasons you can have a good time watching dumb kids trying to stop terror that can't be stopped and the important factor is that all of these sequels last for 90 minutes which is always a treat when watching these movies on Hulu or HBO Max during the month of October as well as celebrating Halloween.