A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

Freddy Krueger

Alice

Yvonne

Dan

Greta

Dennis Johnson

Mark Gray

Mrs. Jordan

Mr. Jordan

Mr. Gray

Gurney Orderly

Amanda Krueger

Jock

Merging Freddy

Delivery Doctor

Anne

Semi-Truck Driver

Girl in Locker

Dr. Moore

Jacob

Asylum Girl

Trendy Guest

Elm Street Kid

Orderly #1

Baby Jacob

Delivery Nurse

Coach Ostrow

Customer

Little Girl (as Marne Patterson)

Guest

Thirty-Something (as Mark Siegler)

Super Freddy

Racine Gibson

Cop

Trendy

Himself

Hot Seat Band Member

Hot Seat Band Member

Hot Seat Band Member

Hot Seat Band Member

Dinner Guest (uncredited)

Orderly (uncredited)

Asylum Inmate (uncredited)

Paramedic (uncredited)

Virtually nothing of the screenplay by John Skipp and Craig Spector made it into the film (according to Skipp, only the phrase "It's a boy" was retained), while only around half of Leslie Bohem's screenplay was kept. William Wisher Jr. and David J. Schow did further rewrites, and the final screenplay was put together just days before shooting by Michael De Luca.

All death sequences were cut down significantly in order to avoid an X-rating. Dan's original motorcycle death was longer and contained much more gore. Many sequences showing Dan's face racked in pain were cut, along with his screams and Freddy's laughter. Scenes which are seen on screen for only seconds are minutes long on film. The entire sequence is much longer, and the timing of Freddy's quips are different. Greta's dinner scene was also edited. Originally, Freddy filleted the Greta-doll with the claw-glove causing it to spurt blood everywhere and then force-fed her its innards. Shots of the guests laughing were cut. Also, after Freddy said, "You are what you eat," she looked down and realized he had gutted her and was feeding her mush from her own stomach. This explains why the Greta-doll in Mark's dream is bleeding from its torso. Finally, Mark's demise is also cut. As Freddy shreds the paper in the unrated release, his face is animated and shows him screaming along to his cries of pain until Freddy cuts his paper head off. All three scenes can be viewed unedited in the original unrated VHS release.

Both horror author Stephen King and comic book writer Frank Miller were offered the job of writing and directing this movie.

The motorcycle has a California tag, when the setting is in Ohio.

As Yvonne bends over to get a flashlight, after she has knocked out a brick where Amanda Krueger has been walled in, the bricked up wall shakes.

When Greta has an argument with her mother during the Dinner party, while the camera goes to her mother for the second time, the black woman on the right puts her glass of wine on the table and it doesn't make any sound. However when the camera faces Greta again the black woman (on the left side of the screen now) has the glass again in her and and puts it down again, however this time the glass does make a sound.

Yvonne: [to Alice] Just don't ask me to take a Jacuzzi with that guy again.

Freddy Krueger: Where are you going, piglet? The party's just starting.

Alice Johnson: How was the meeting?