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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD |
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The Dream Child circumstance was oddly circular, and DJS hastens to point out that he did not write it, but that his task was to perform a dialogue polish, after the script had filtered down through four other writers and the film was actually in production: "Pay attention; the timeline kind of leaps around like a jaguar with a soldering iron stuck in his phrenum. New Line was ready to sign me to write their latest Nightmare film on the basis of a treatment I'd done titled Freddy Rules. Then they discovered I'd never done a screenplay before. Busted! Eventually I debuted on the Freddy TV series, and on the basis of that teleplay ("Safe Sex") they signed me to do Leatherface. While Leatherface was between drafts I got an emergency call from New Line asking me to galvanize the dialogue for Nightmare 5, which was already being shot. To provide dialogue as it was being shot. There was literally a guy taking pages from my apartment directly to the set. What was written in the afternoon was shot by wrap-time on the same day. To complicate matters further, Gerald T. Olson, who had made his directorial debut on "Safe Sex," was handed the job of shooting Nightmare 5's trailer … which is how I wound up portraying Freddy's 'good right hand' for a quarter-second of time on the big screen."
Magic Helmet, or: Film is Glam. For the theatrical trailer to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, PART FIVE: THE DREAM CHILD, DJS portrayed Freddy's good right hand, which comes lashing up out of a hellish pram. In order to keep from suffocating in all the glycerin and KY Jelly dripping down from the baby buggy, plastic sheeting and a Hugenot-style helmet of foil were required. (Photos by Gerald T. Olsen.)
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