Dream Warriors

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 (Dream Warriors)

In 1987, A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 (Dream Warriors) was released, grossing nearly $45 million on only a $4.5 million budget. 

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This Wes Craven film was Patricia Arquette’s first main role, essentially responsible for jump-starting her career into fast-forward.  This was meant to be the final movie in the series but due to such success and high demand, Wes Craven had no choice but to continue on with the saga to keep fans happy.

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 (Dream Warriors) jumps ahead six years with Kristin Parker making an exact replica of the original house from the previous films.  When she falls asleep, she meets a young girl outside but when she hears someone approaching, she picks the little girl up, enters the house and bolts to the basement. 

When Kristin looks down, she’s holding a skeleton, not a little girl!  She wakes up but then falls back asleep in the bathroom where Freddy Krueger appears and slashes her wrists with his knives.  Of course, her mother thinks she tried to commit suicide and places her in a psychiatric hospital.

Most of A Nightmare On Elm Street (Dream Warriors) is shot in this hospital where Kristin meets Joey, Taryn, Roland, Philip, Jennifer and Will, who all happen to be Elm Street children.  She is also introduced to Dr. Neil Gordon and Nancy Thompson who was in the previous film.  Nancy explains to the doctor that she understand what the children are going through.

Nancy tried to help the others in A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 (Dream Warriors) by experimenting with Hypnocil, a dream suppressant. When Kristin has another dream where Krueger is trying to eat her, she tries to bring Nancy into the dream with her to help her with him.  Of course, Krueger recognizes Nancy as the girl who defeated him six years prior so he attempts to attack her but Kristin slams the door and Nancy removes herself from the dream.

Shortly later, Krueger kills Phillip and Nancy convinces the doctor to try experimental hypnosis so Kristin can pull them all into her dream.  Due to their project, the doctor and Nancy are both fired but Nancy knows they’ll all die if she doesn’t help so she pleas to her father to assist but he doesn’t respond the way she hoped. 

Neil and Nancy head back to the hospital to find that Kristen has been sedated and dangerously thrown into a quiet room.

Krueger goes on a killing spree now in A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 (Dream Warriors).  He stabs Will, drugs Taryn and smashes Jennifer’s head with a television.  Kincaid actually manages to get away to join Kristin and Nancy and they save Joey right before he is about to be killed.  Meanwhile, Nancy’s father has decided to help and he is with Neil, digging up Krueger’s bones in an old salvage yard.  As the bones surface, they come to life, attacking them both, Nancy’s father is killed.

Nancy and the kids are still in their dream state when she runs into the spirit of her father who has just been murdered and he tells her goodbye.  When Nancy hugs him, she is stabbed because it was actually Krueger impersonating her father.  Krueger goes after Kristin but right before he tries to kill her, Nancy appears and causes him to stab himself. 

At this exact moment in A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 (Dream Warriors), Neil wakes up in the junkyard and dumps holy water on the skeleton and then uses the crucifix he picked up from the church to complete the burial.

The film ends with Nancy dying in Kristin’s arms.  After the funeral, Neil falls asleep in his home but he is in the house that was created by Kristin in the beginning of the movie.  Suddenly, a light comes on  and A Nightmare On Elm Street (Dream Warriors) ends, leaving you wanting more.

If you can’t remember A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 why not have a quick look at Freddy’s Revenge!