A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child could have been a PG-13 film as its director wanted. But why did he intend for a domestic rating for a horror movie? In 1984, Wes Craven presented the audience to a one-of-a-kind slasher in the film A Nightmare on Elm Street. It depicted four teenagers who become the aims of Freddy Krueger. He was the villain with an exact technique to haunt his victims: frightening them in their dreams. So if he kills them in their dreams, they die in real life too. A Nightmare on Elm Street was a life-threatening and commercial success. It made way for a franchise with a total of nine films and other media. All films in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise were successful. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child could have been diverse from the other films as the director wanted to make it PG-13.
The movie had several deleted segments
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 is set a year after its prequel film. It follows Alice Johnson, who is haunted again by Freddy. Now through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, all with the determination of being born again. Such bizarre evidence needs a darker tone. So, the director Stephen Hopkins wanted the movie to be PG-13. An extraordinary makeup effects artist Christopher Biggs revealed it in a deleted segment, Never Sleep Again. In the deleted part, which is very short-lived, Biggs explained that he saw Hopkins in one meeting. He only said that he wanted no blood on any of these jokes as he didn’t want the film to get an R-rating. Biggs and company found it to be bizarre and with good reason, as a slasher film from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is somewhat probable to have a rating that imitates its graphic style. Eventually, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 had to go through basic cuts for some scenes’ graphic nature.
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But in the end, the PG-13 movie didn’t happen
In the end, Stephen Hopkins didn’t get the PG-13 film he was wanting. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 didn’t get an X rating but, it got an R-rating, just like the previous films in the franchise. A PG-13 movie from A Nightmare on Elm Street wouldn’t feel like a Freddy Krueger film, even if the famous slasher ended up being more comedic than petrifying, so it all functioned for the better.
