The Dream Child brings to a close a story line that began with A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. It continued through 3 films. Among a franchise that sports 8 entries in its original canon is this nice, complete standalone trilogy. You can basically start fresh in Dream Warriors and work your way through Dream Child and the story lines (I'm not talking film quality here) come to a satisfying and concise conclusion. With Dream Child we're left with Alice going off happily ever after with her life free of Freddy and with baby and Daddy in tow. We never hear from any of these characters again. They leave us with the promise that Freddy is probably still out there, but he'll never be harming Alice again.
