A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

Revealing mistake: In one shot when Alice is in the shower, as she turns for the soap you can tell she is wearing brown underwear. (00:03:30)

Revealing mistake: When Alice picks up the photocopied sheet about Amanda Kruger, if you pause, and read the article, it is actually about tax and the government. (00:53:30)

Revealing mistake: When Jacob says to Freddy "I wanna learn stuff from you, she's no fun anymore" Freddy then raises his metal claw to his nose. His nose then hits the claw, and it bends. (01:17:05)

Revealing mistake: The fake hand that the wires snake into was shot backwards and reversed, so you can see the holes where the wires are going to enter. (00:26:55)

Revealing mistake: When Alice has a sudden vision of Dan falling to hell (or wherever) behind her, the perspective she has is impossible. The fall-away shot starts from an extreme close-up of Dan such that his head alone is twice the size of Alice, making it obvious that this is nothing but a filmed visual inserted into the background. (00:29:24)

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Continuity mistake: When Alice and Mark are collecting all the sheets from the floor, Alice looks at a sheet about Amanda Krueger. Then in the next wide shot as her dad calls for her, all the sheets are in a pile to her right. Then in the following closeup, she starts picking up sheets of paper from all around her. (00:53:35)

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Trivia: The idea of focusing the story around children and birth was hatched by Executive Producer Sara Risher, who was a new mother at the time, and constantly had her child and its well-being in her mind. The crew decided to build off this, because they felt that the teenagers and 20-somethings who were fans of the original film were beginning to reach the age where they were likely thinking about settling down and having families themselves. Thus, incorporating elements of family and birth into the film would keep the series relevant and special for fans of the earlier entries.

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Question: I'm a little confused about Greta's death. Was it from eating too much or from her eating what was not good for her?

Answer: Her death was from Freddy overfeeding her while in the real world she choked to death.

Answer: In the VHS version, Freddy cut open her stomach and was feeding her own intestines. That's why when he cut open the doll on the high chair tray Greta was wincing and squirming as Freddy had just cut her stomach open. I guess you could say that that doll on the high chair tray was like a voodoo doll of Greta so whatever Freddy did to it happened to Greta too. Eventually, Freddy caused Greta to choke on her own intestines which caused her to choke to death in the real world.

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