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H5: The Revenge of Michael Myers vs Elm Street 5: The Dream Child


(This is a continuation of a contest that's started on the pages for the original films of both franchises)

These are the point where fans started to think that the franchises were really going into decline. They have their franchise novelty, but on the whole aren't nearly as well regarded as their franchise's hire ups. Their strongest points are the returns of the heroines from their predecessors with Danielle Harris and Lisa Wilcox reprising their roles as Jamie Lloyd and Alice Johnson. They try to do some new things by utilizing supernatural mental connections between our heroines and the villains (whether it is a familial psychic link or the villain entering the dreams of the leads baby she's pregnant with) and actually manage to survive another film unlike many other slasher films survivors. But both on the whole just feel a little too been there done that (At least by my taste). So, which do you prefer and why?

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Halloween 5 all the way. While not perfect, it still managed a good dark atmosphere, good kills and a fairly high body count and turned out to be a decent follow-up to Halloween 4.

NOES 5, however, is all around bad. Good FX, but Freddy is just too ridiculous and cheesy at this point.

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"Nightmare 5". While declining in quality due, in part, to the rushed production and "overkill" of Freddy saturating pop culture, it is a really well thought out horror film with some great plot points, visuals and a great mix of comedic Freddy and unpredictable vicious bastard Freddy.

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Love both, but prefer Halloween 5 (better atmosphere and ending). Dream Child has better kills though.







"Its time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outta gum."- Duke Nukem

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I like both films very much and both films took me many years to finally come around on and appreciate.

But since I grew up more with A Nightmare on Elm Street 5:The Dream Child and think it offers more as a overall film than Halloween 5.Elm Street 5 has a lot of cool things to it that sadly Halloween 5 doesn't have.

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Thank you and your right.

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