10 Film Sequels That Made Fans Rage Quit
4. Nightmare On Elm St 5: The Dream Child
The fourth Nightmare movie was an enormous success in 1988, but with Freddy at the peak of his popularity at that point, the only direction was down. It didn’t help that The Dream Child was an utter misfire, with a strange storyline about Freddy invading the dreams of an unborn baby, and set designs that Tim Burton would have rejected as “too gothy.”
The plot is muddled, the bodycount is low and the “Super Freddy” scene is the moment the series officially jumped the shark. It scored poor reviews and only made half the money of the previous entry, despite being released only a year later.
The next couple of entries – including the excellent New Nightmare – suffered weak box-office. His team-up with Jason give Robert Englund’s version of Freddy a decent send-off, but the less said of the remake, the better.