A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) | Episode #51

In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 1989 horror-comedy film A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. 

Episode Highlights: We argue that while this is our least favorite Nightmare film to date, a "bad" Nightmare is still leagues above a lot of other horror. We deconstruct the death scenes of Greta and Mark and share where we wished the film had gone a step further; we also explore the franchise's continued motif of parental disinterest and the ways that this film, in particular, drops (to its detriment) the franchise's larger institutional critique.

A Dose of Scholarship: We reference Gary Heba's 1995 article "Everyday Nightmares: The Rhetoric of Social Horror in the Nightmare on Elm Street Series."

This podcast episode first aired on July 19, 2021.

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