Ranking The A Nightmare On Elm Street Films From Worst To Best

Most franchises tend to show the signs of fatigue by the fifth installment and A Nightmare on Elm Street was no different.

Following on from the conclusion of its predecessor - the wildly entertaining Dream Master, which we'll get to later - this film saw survivor Alice fall pregnant to her partner Dan. What should be a happy and joyous occasion quickly turns sour when Freddy is miraculously reborn and begins a new reign of terror.

This time around, Freddy was able to thrive by utilising the dreams of Alice's unborn child, which certainly is a cool concept, but sadly this film is a confusing mess that doesn't deliver on its unique premise. Numerous plot inconsistencies and pacing issues really drag this one down, which stings all the more seeing as the four films that preceded it were much leaner and more tightly focused,

This one does get some points for having some insanely disturbing death scenes and tons of cool Gothic imagery, but everything else doesn't quite work as it should and the whole thing feels like it's about to crumble in on itself at any given moment.

You could say that they didn't really deliver on this one...