Alice kicking Freddy’s ass with martial arts moves. Debby turning into a cockroach. All those souls clawing through Freddy. They made me laugh(but that last one was pretty cool). Clearly this series is taking a turn for the comedic horror route. It’s not terrible, but Dream Master is a weak sequel to a movie that redeemed this series after Part 2 sucked major ass. It’s still fun, though, never really alienating the viewer with awfulness…like the kind seen in Part 2. Following up the previous Nightmare film, dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen (who can draw others into her dreams) wills her special ability to her friend Alice. Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power to pull a new group of children into his foul domain.

Part 4 sees Freddy returning once again to finish off the last of the “Elm Street Children.” Once that’s taken care of, he uses Alice, who has gained Kristen’s powers to bring people into her dreams, to kill some more kids. The concept is cool, but there’s a lot of places where this movie went wrong and some where it went right.

Starring: Robert Englund, Rodney Eastman, Danny Hassel, Andras Jones, Tuesday Knight, Toy Newkirk.

Director: Renny Harlin.