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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is the fourth film in the A Nightmare on Elm Street
series. It was released in 1988. The film was directed by Renny Harlin.

Taglines:

You shouldn't have buried me, I'm not dead.
Terror Beyond Your Wildest Dreams.
Are you ready for Freddy?
Pure Evil Never Really Dies.
The biggest nightmare of them all.

Plot

The events of The Dream Master take place soon after those of Dream Warriors. Kristen (Tuesday Knight, who replaced Patricia Arquette), Joey (Rodney Eastman), and Kincaid (Ken Sagoes), have been released from the hospital and are now living normal lives and attending high school. Kristen has also befriended Alice (Lisa Wilcox), a young, bright girl who is a frequent daydreamer. Kristen's other friends include her boyfriend Rick (Andras Jones), who happens to be Alice's brother, Sheila (Toy Newkirk), and Debbie (Brooke Theiss).

Kristen begins to have bad dreams and feels as though Freddy has once again come back from the dead. During one of her nightmares, she pulls Kincaid and Joey into her dream. This does not meet with their approval, as they want to put the entire Freddy Krueger incident behind them. In school the next day, Kincaid and Joey confront Kristen about pulling them into the dream. They tell her, "If you keep going back in there, thinking about him, you might just stir him up again."

As it turns out, Freddy is indeed back. Kincaid wakes up one night, only to find himself locked in the trunk of an old junked car. When he opens the hood, he realizes that he is in a salvage yard - the same one that Freddy's body is buried in. Kincaid spies his dog, Jason, digging in the ground nearby. When he goes to investigate, the dog growls and snaps at his hand. Then, Jason begins to urinate fire on the plot where Freddy is buried. The ground begins to shake and the plot where Freddy lies begins to sink deeper into the ground and open up. Down in the grave, we see flesh beginning to ooze its way back onto bones. A gloved hand reattaches itself to the stump of an arm. Then, a dark, burned hand reaches for a fedora in the dirt and dusts it off. Having pulled himself together, Freddy rises again in front of the stunned dog.

Just as Krueger is savoring his resurrection in the dream world, a pile of cars comes crashing down on him. Kincaid has pushed over a wall of junked cars. He celebrates, but not for long. The remaining cars begin to come alive. Kincaid tries to run from them, but finds that all exits are blocked. Terrified, Kincaid screams, "Freddy's back! Freddy's back! Freddy's back!" At this point, Freddy catches up with him, and Kincaid can finally sleep forever.

In the next scene, we see Joey in his room, watching MTV and listening to music. Joey continually glances from his television to the swimsuit model in a poster above it. Suddenly, when he looks at the poster, the girl is gone. Something begins to move beneath him in his waterbed. When he removes the sheets, he discovers it's the swimsuit model, her naked body pressed against the soft plastic of the bed. She motions that she is going down, and then swims out of sight. Joey begs her to come back. Instead, the bed bursts open and Freddy jumps out, saying, "How's this for a wet dream, Joey?" He pulls Joey below and the water churns red with blood. This scene is very similar to Glenn's death in the original movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The following day at school, Kristen is concerned when her friends fail to show up for class. In a fit of hysteria, she bumps her head and falls unconscious. When she comes to, she is in the nurse's office with someone who appears to be the school nurse. Naturally, it turns out to be Freddy. She wakes up, realizing she was dreaming, and this time finds herself with the real school nurse. At home that night, her mother gives her a sedative to help her sleep. When Kristen falls asleep this time, she tries to convert nightmares into pleasant dreams, to no avail. Even in her good dreams, Freddy appears and ruins everything. Kristen eventually finds herself in Freddy's boiler room where, somewhere, Freddy himself awaits. It is explained that Kristen is the last child from Elm Street, and that Freddy needs her help to get more children. He needs the power she has displayed to pull people into dreams so that he can go after all the children of Springwood. Afraid to let this happen, she tries not to think of anyone. However, when Freddy is about to kill her, she screams for Alice.

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