A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
An welcome addition to the franchise thanks to the hiring of Finland's Renny Harlin as director. He brings a genuine European aesthetic to proceedings with several scenes feeling Argento like due to use of vivid bold colours and some genuinely great camera work which makes even the most mundane scene visually interesting and the horror action the best in the series. The film also lacks the glossy eighties sheen that often hampered films of this ilk in the eighties.
It's easy to see why mainstream Hollywood snapped up Harlin who went on to make action classics Die Hard 2 (1990), Cliffhanger (1993) and 1996's The Long Kiss Goodnight.
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