A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Just when you thought it was safe to sleep again Freddy awakens. Kristen (Tuesday Knight) is dreaming about the Thompson's old house since it's now Freddy's domain and fears that Krueger is alive.
In her dream, she calls for her surviving friends from the Psychiatric Hospital Roland (Ken Sagoes) and Joey (Rodney Eastman) now they are better too. They prove to Kristen Freddy is still dead as his boiler room is dead but Roland's dog bites Kristen in her dream as the dog enters one of the boiler room's pipes but Kristen still convinces them that he's coming.
Still, Roland and Joey advise her not to mention his name and to have better dreams.
Later on they are at school and Kristen hangs out with her new friends Alice (Lisa Wilcox), Alice's brother Rick (Andras Jones) who is also Kristen's boyfriend, Debbie (Brooke Theiss) and Sheila (Toy Newkirk) but Kristen is still troubled.
Later on that night when everyone is asleep, Roland is dreaming that he is at the car junkyard where Freddy's remains were buried (A dream he didn't want to dream about). Roland's dog is also there but behaves viciously. His dog urinates on the ground causing a trail of fire leading to Freddy's corpse. Freddy awakens and says No one should've never buried him as he wasn't dead.
While Roland tries to save himself Freddy kills Roland off while he starts to wake up but it's too late. Joey falls asleep while watching MTV and listening to music and Freddy does him in too.
Kristen freaks out when she suspects they're dead when they don't show up for class and accidentally bumps her head in class causing to pass out. She is nearly slayed by Freddy but a nurse wakes her up in a hospital.
She knows that Freddy is back when Rick tells her that Roland and Joey were found dead.
Kristen and some of her friends go to the Thompson's old house and later on since she refuses to sleep but her mother puts a sleeping pill in her drink during dinnertime. Before she falls asleep she thinks of a nice place as Alice tells her about the Dream Master which is about dreaming of a nice place but it backfires and and then she falls into his boiler room. Freddy throws Kristen into the fire pit when she tries to attack Freddy.
A pic appears in Alice's room but Kristen however wills her special ability to her friend Alice who was in the boiler room too witnessing Freddy throwing Kristen in the fire pit. Alice sees the horrifying pic of Kristen being held by Freddy when she wakes up and then the pic disappears into flames.
Alice and Rick go to Kristen's house and Kristen's bed is on fire with her corpse on it.
Suddenly Alice's other friends are being killed off one by one while Alice falls asleep the same time they do and she goes into their dreams witnessing her friends being murdered by Krueger as he uses her to bring him new souls for his body now that he took the souls of the last survivors who killed him before.

We have more action packed fun with this film although it is more filled with mainly special effects and Freddy doing away teenagers it's still over the top good. Many fans dissed the sequels but the true fans like me enjoyed all of them (Well except for Freddy's Dead).
Check this one out as it's just as good as part 3 and exciting too.

Robert Englund as our beloved Freddy Krueger bring new dark humor and darkness to his character at the saem time and stands out terrifically doing both as usual.
New lead actress Lisa Wilcox is fabulous as the strong minded and caring teen in this film who never fails with her performance at all.
Andras Jones is quite a character with his role as a martial arts teen and brings the dark comedy to this film as well as showing good serious attitude too. Of course he had practice with his comedic performance as a nerd in a flick before this called Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama.
However, Patricia Arquette dropped out of this one by reprising her role as Kristen and newcomer Tuesday Knight refuses to fuill in her boots and make the role convicncing like Arquette did. She is not all all terrible though and shows some nice performances during many scene's of the film.
Another actor named Danny Hassel who played the cutest guy at the highschool seemed to have more of the looks than the acting talent too which explains why he only had a handful of other acting gigs.
Brooke Theiss had both. The beautiful looks and the talent too as a stunning teenage friend at the highschool who feared of cockroaches. She was one of my favourites in the film.
We also have Toy Newkirk as she represents herself as sort of nerdy as a teen with athsma yet she comes across as a cool and outgoing one and performs it terrifically too as she looks believeable as if she has that kind of diagnosis.
Rodney Eastman returns briefly in the film and it's nice that he got his voice back and see a different type of person out of his role as Joey.

Hope Marie Carlton who played the pin up girl in Joey's dream appears fully breasted inside his waterbed.

Kristen is burned alive in the boiler room
Debbie's arms are torn off with new cockroach arms and her body is torn off while transforming into one
Freddy's stomach gets zapped and a hole in his body is revealed

Renny Harlin is a very good director for this one as he brings alot of good entertainment into this film.
He shows a perfect opening of Tuesday Knight walking towards the Thompson's old house since it's taken over by Krueger and talks to a little girl played by Kristen Clayton as she asks her where Freddy is which gives you a nice chilling moment that he will return.
We have great dialogue sequences with all Knight, Rodney Eastman and Ken Sagoes in the boiler room. The setting is perfect too as the boiler room is dead and both Eastman and Sagoes were well directed when they try to convince Knight's character that Krueger is dead.
There's nice moments with Knight, Lisa Wilcox, Brooke Theiss and Toy Newkirk all hanging out before school starts which looks believable that they are highschool buddies.
We have a perfect shot on Knight in the highschool hallway when she says that Krueger will be returning.
Sagoes delivers his part well when he is dreaming in a car junkyard where Krueger's bones were buried last time in part 3 and a good reaction realising that this is not what he wanted to dream about when he wakes up and realisises he is in a trunk of a totalled car. Harlinl makes his scene in the dream sequence between him and his dog extremely effectively and dark too.
A terrific camera shot on the ground breaking open and then Krueger's skeletal pieces coming together as well as his glove with the blades shooting up from the broken ground.
We will never forget Sagoes take before his character dies telling Englund's character as Freddy that he will see him in hell and then he tells Sagoes character to tell them he sent him there and then he wakes up dead with his dog whimpering.
The direction with Knight panicking when she discovers that her friends Joey and Roland aren't at school. However, after she finds out that they're dead and she cries to Wilcox's character at the diner it looks a little fake.
There's a nice reaction on Wilcox after realising that she is in Krueger's boiler room for the first time.
Wilcox and Andras Jones both stand out well in the TV room while watching a home video they made and arguing about Krueger existing or not as Harlin shows terrific energy between the two.
There's a yet disturbing but again funny moment between Englund and supporting actress Toy Newkirk when she has the life sucked out of her during a nightmare sequence in a classroom.
There's perfect camera shots on Andras Jones performing martial arts trying to battle the invisible Krueger too.
Harlin directs supporting actor Nicholas Mele very believeable at being drunk yet scared for his daughter's life when there's a dialogue sequence between him and Wilcox after she tries to leave the house and he stops her.
I loved a scene where Wilcox's character is dreaming that she's in a theatre's and she is sucked into it.
The reactions on Theiss looked disturbing and great when she discovers that she is turning into a cockroach in her dream. It was gross seeing a beauty like her turn into that but of course Krueger feeds on teenagers fears then makes them real for them in their dreams. Harlin packs a punch with both Wilcox and Hassel when they try to drive to her house before he kills Theiss's character during this moment.
There's fabulous camera shots on Wilcox when she puts on a martial arts outfit and the battle between her and Englund's character as Krueger was superbly performed.

Both John Easdale and Craig Saffan took the job performing the music score for this film and are just as wonderful. They have some pounding sounds and screeching noises during the beginning of this film using the same terrific chemisrty like the composers did for the last few sequels.

There's a terrific rockin soundtrack by many 80's popular artists in this film and a soundtrack album was released. I own it on cassette.

"Nightmare" performed by our actress Tuesday Knight sounded perfect during the opening of the film. However, it was never released on the soundtrack album and it should have been.
Then after the first nightmare sequence "Back to the Wall" by Divinyls when the teens are riding in a volkswagon sounds very stale and wouldn't be my first choice for a song.
There's a perfect song during some martial arts fighting which is the number "Anything, Anything" by Dramarama (Another song that never made it to the soundtarack album)
Another one that never made it to the album is "Fatal Charm" by Billy Idol when Freddy drowns Joey in his waterbed. Idol has a unique voice that anyone can recognise.
Ahh yes in the restaurant playing on the jukebox after Kristen finds out that her two friends were killed is "Love Kills" by the hair metal band Vinnie Vincent Invasion and is the best out of them all. The rock video is bloody good too featuring segments from the movie.
We can't forget the brief songtrack during the middle of the closing credits titled "Are You Ready for Freddy" by the 80's rap group the Fat Boys which leaves a nice impression too but this was another one that lucked out on the soundtrack yet it sold well as a single and made a terrific music video out of it.

There's many other songtracks in this movie but these were the one's that really stood out iin my mind.

Kristen: Joey! Kincaid! Help me!

Debbie Stevens: Mm, there's Dan Jordan. Mm-hmm! We are talkin' one major-league hunk!
[Alice's daydreams]
Alice Johnson: You know, you are one major-league hunk.
Daniel 'Dan' Jordan: [laughs] Thanks, Alice.

Jock: [in response to Sheila's inhaler] Hey, baby. You're sucking on the wrong nossil.
Debbie Stevens: Hey, yo, needle dick! I bet you're the only male in this school suffering from penis envy.

Rick: Hey, Supergirl, it's dead. Give a bug a break.

Freddy Krueger: You shouldn't have buried me. I'm not dead.

Kincaid: I'll see you in hell.
Freddy Krueger: Tell 'em Freddy sent ya.

Freddy Krueger: How's this for a wet dream?

Freddy Krueger: [as nurse] I wanna draw some blood!

Elaine Parker: Something matter with the cuisine?
Kristen Parker: Well mom I'll tell you, when two of your friends die in the same day let me know what it does to your appetite.
Elaine Parker: Your just tired, don't think I haven't noticed you haven't been sleeping young lady, that has got to stop honey.
Kristen Parker: [suddenly gets up, feeling drowsy instantly] What's wrong with me?
Elaine Parker: Adolescent anxiety... this will make it better.
Kristen Parker: [confused... looks at lemonade which is murky] O god... what did you do?
[grabs mom's purse and sleeping pills fall out]
Kristen Parker: Jesus Sleeping pills!
Elaine Parker: Look Kristen I'm sorry its just...
Kristen Parker: SORRY! sorry after you and your tennis pals torched this guy and now hes after me? In case you havent been keeping score, it's HIS fucking banquet, and I'm the last course.
Elaine Parker: Kristen we went over this in therapy.
Kristen Parker: No mother, you just murdered me, take that to your goddamn therapy.
Elaine Parker: KRISTEN!
Kristen Parker: No!
[runs out of the dining room, sedated and falling]

Freddy Krueger: Elm Street's last brat. Farewell.
Kristen: We beat you before!
Freddy Krueger: And now you're all alone! Kristen, why don't you - uh - call on one of your little friends? Maybe they could help.
Kristen: Never! I'm the last!
Freddy Krueger: Why don't you... reach out... and cut someone?
[Kristen screams]

[after Kristen calls in Alice]
Freddy Krueger: How sweet. Fresh meat.

Freddy Krueger: Wanna suck face?
Sheila Kopecky: No!

Alice Johnson: [Rick comes in and sits next to Alice, who is watching a video with Rick and Kristen in it in happier days] You made her so happy then.
Rick: Yeah, before all this Freddy shit.
Alice Johnson: [Turns to Rick] You know, I saw it in my dream. Th-There was this horrible man...
Rick: [Interrupting Alice with a tone in his voice] Oh, who, Freddy? Freddy? Look, I don't want to hear about Freddy, okay. I heard it all from Kristen and I don't want to hear anymore. So just stop it.
Alice Johnson: But I could smell the smoke, I can feel the fire. It wasn't a dream it was real!
Rick: I said stop it! She wasn't crazy and neither are you, so just stop it, please. God, why are you acting this way?
Alice Johnson: I don't know, Rick. Something happened in the dream and now... it's like she's a part of me.

Freddy Krueger: [imitating ninja trainer] A true warrior needs no eyes.

Freddy Krueger: [being served a pizza pie consisting of living human faces] Mmm... the usual. My favorite. Mmm... Eeney, meeney, miney... MOE!
[stabs Rick's face with his glove]
Freddy Krueger: Mmm... Rick, you little meatball. I love soul food. Bring me more.
[notices Debbie and laughs]
Freddy Krueger: Your shift is over.

Freddy Krueger: No Pain... No Gain.

Debbie Stevens: I don't believe in you.
Freddy Krueger: I believe in you.

[about the roach motel]
Freddy Krueger: You can check in, but you can't check out.

Freddy Krueger: Welcome to Wonderland, Alice.

[after healing a gaping wound in his chest and moving to kill Alice]
Freddy Krueger: I... am... eternal.

Freddy Krueger: You've got their powers. I've got their souls. Come on!

Chorus Children: Now I lay me down to sleep. The Master of Dreams my soul will keep. In the reflection by my side...
Alice Johnson: Evil will see itself, and it shall die!

Alice Johnson: Rest in hell.