Headscratchers / A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

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• Alice's doctor is most likely going to be fired for calling Dan's parents and telling them about her erratic behavior during the ultrasound, because unless they were listed as an emergency contact, he just breached Patient/Doctor Confidentiality laws by giving them her personal health information. What's up with that?
  • Add to that, until Jacob was born, there was really no way to verify that the baby was Dan's. We know he was, and Alice would have maintained that, since she wasn't with anyone else and she loved Dan. But legally, the Doctor was committing a serious ethics breach on behalf of people he could not yet verify had any stake in this child's life.
• When we see Amanda Krueger get trapped inside the dungeon where all the 100 maniacs were kept, how did they survive if they have no food or water? Judging by Amanda Krueger’s speech in the third movie she was trapped there “during the holy days” (so, for several days, maybe a month). What the hell did the inmates and her ate and drank during that period? Notice they didn’t have beds either and you also need sleep to survive, but probably feeding is the most immediate plot hole.
  • When we're talking about the kinds of holidays that would be likely to even bring an Asylum down to a skeleton crew it's at most a four-day weekend. Humans can go that long without water, they'll just be mighty unhappy about it.
    • But she said she was there for a month.
    • I assumed that they somehow kept her hidden.
  • There were probably some water taps in that huge communal cell, and a pass-through port to allow the inmates to be fed. The inmates weren't completely abandoned during the holidays, they just made sure that whomever was tasked to slip them their meals couldn't see or hear Amanda when they dropped off the food.