The “Nightmare On Elm Street” series continues to disappoint with “The Dream Master”. Although these films are always more creative than the “Friday The 13th” or “Halloween” sequels due to their elaborate dream sequences, they are still so shockingly bland. Something mildly interesting to note is that this entry was directed by Renny Harlin (“The Long Kiss Goodnight”).

After a dog urinates fire on his grave (I’m not kidding), Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund “A Nightmare On Elm Street”) is back. He’s just as lethal as before as hunts down the teens that defeated him last time and now, he is out for some new blood too. Can Alice (Lisa Wilcox) defeat him?

Robert Englund seems to be having a lot less fun this time around so maybe he was getting as bored as a lot of the audience was. There is only so much entertainment one can get from being caked in lots of make-up and pretending to slice up teens for a living. The teens are as bland as ever. It’s just so hard to care about whether these characters live or die when they have no real personalities. One guy does martial arts, one girl is a nerd and so on; that’s how deep and meaningful things get.

Despite some moderately impressive special effects, there really is not that much on offer. It’s worse than the previous ones, not because it’s got worse writing or anything like that but we’ve seen it done thrice before. If you are a big fan of these movies then I’m sure you’ll love this one as it’s more of the same. For everybody else, there is nothing here that is going to make you change your mind about these movies. Go and watch something better and maybe your dreams will be better too.