kind of obsessed with how the elm street films lean more and more into explicitly Gothic horror as the series goes on. it was always kind of that way but it's the later ones that really get into it. old abandoned buildings become an increasingly common setting for climactic scenes. there's spooky old cathedrals and stained-glass churches. The House as central to the horror (the way they keep going back to the elm street house from the first film without even knowing why). something about the generational conflict inherent in the themes, retribution for a long-buried injustice of the past. and of course the heavy use of dream symbolism (i actually think so far the later films like 4 and 5 make the best use of dream logic for some excellent surreal imagery and plot progessions).
of course a lot of this is buried in a film that centers on the lead heroine being pregnant and the evil trying to possess her fetus and of course it's going to be weird about that. not as bad as it could be given treatment of this subject in the genre but it's still weird about it