I love both series but im ganna have to say ANMOES5, halloween 5 was a hot mess and the mask was terrible. If I wasn't just barely born n the yr 1989 though I woulda watched em both in theaters!!

Like both, but Dream Child is far better.

Thank you and your right.

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I like both films very much and both films took me many years to finally come around on and appreciate.
But since I grew up more with A Nightmare on Elm Street 5:The Dream Child and think it offers more as a overall film than Halloween 5.Elm Street 5 has a lot of cool things to it that sadly Halloween 5 doesn't have.

Love both, but prefer Halloween 5 (better atmosphere and ending). Dream Child has better kills though.
"Its time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outta gum."- Duke Nukem

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"Nightmare 5". While declining in quality due, in part, to the rushed production and "overkill" of Freddy saturating pop culture, it is a really well thought out horror film with some great plot points, visuals and a great mix of comedic Freddy and unpredictable vicious bastard Freddy.

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Halloween 5 all the way. While not perfect, it still managed a good dark atmosphere, good kills and a fairly high body count and turned out to be a decent follow-up to Halloween 4.
NOES 5, however, is all around bad. Good FX, but Freddy is just too ridiculous and cheesy at this point.

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Nightmare 5. Halloween 5 is almost completely devoid of redeeming qualities
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Halloween 5.

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Halloween 5 which, unlike Nightmare 5, is still a scary movie.

I, too, never realized all of the similarities between these two sequels. Another interesting parallel is that they were both released in 1989.
As for which is better, wow, that's tough. As a whole, I prefer the
Halloween
series over the
A Nightmare on Elm Street
series, but when pitting the 5th installments of each series together, I'd have to say that
The Dream Child
is more entertaining than
The Revenge of Michael Myers
. What's most disappointing about
Halloween 5
is that it was set up to be a great chapter in the series, and in a few spots the film sparkles with intensity/scariness, but overall it squandered the opportunity to deliver and it was a significant step down from its predecessor
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
. As for
The Dream Child
, while it's not flawless, I like the atmosphere it set up, along with the cinematography. And while some may disagree, I think it built on its predecessor,
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
, and in some respects surpassed it.
Overall,
The Dream Child
is a more memorable film than
The Revenge of Michael Myers
.
I would also point out that 1989 was a bad year all around for horror sequels, as that was the year that
Friday the 13th part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
was released. Now
that
was the worst of the three released that year.

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Can't choose.

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I never had thought about it but both have the same heroine returning from the fourth. Both are pretty bad sequels

To me. this is pretty easy. Its Nightmare 5. Halloween 5 is a big mess a mute Jamie. Killing your only eal likeable character 20 minutes into the movie. Having the start of the stupid man in black thing. I could go on and on all day wit hmy problems with Halloween 5.
As for Nightmare 5 is it perfect no. Low body count. An ending while not awful. Couldn't touch the ending to Nightmare 4. But I like the story and the creepy atmosphere. Very underrated score. Lisa Wilcox doing a great Job as Alice and having her survive. Which I was happy to see.

Though both could've been better, I pick Nightmare on Elm Street 5.
Freddy was kind of back in the shadows, but still comedic. I like how
they show his mother giving birth to him and the scene where the
maniacs surround her is creepy. Lisa Wilcox is also great as Alice.