A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

19871987
RR
1h 36m

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

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A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

Director
- Chuck Russell
Writers
- Wes Craven(story)
- Bruce Wagner(story)
- Frank Darabont(screenplay)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations

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Patricia Arquette in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

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Director
- Chuck Russell
Writers
- Wes Craven(story) (screenplay) (characters)
- Bruce Wagner(story) (screenplay)
- Frank Darabont(screenplay)
All cast & crew
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Picking up where the original Nightmare left off, Nancy has grown up and become a psychiatrist specializing in dream therapy. She meets a group of children at a local hospital facing Freddy Krueger, the same demon she once encountered in her sleep. One of them is Kristen, who has the power to draw other people into her dreams. Working with a male doctor assigned to the case, Nancy helps the kids realize their special abilities within the nightmare world. When Freddy captures one of her charges, she leads a rescue attempt into Krueger's domain, in hopes of putting his spirit to rest once and for all. —David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu>

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Taglines
- Freddy's just around the corner...
Genres
- Fantasy
- Horror
Certificate
- R
Parents guide

Trivia
The Freddy glove that was stolen from the set of this film was found in another movie: it was hanging on the wall of the work shed in Evil Dead II (1987), released the same year. It was part of a continued banter between directors Wes Craven and Sam Raimi. See The Hills Have Eyes (1977), The Evil Dead (1981), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Evil Dead II (1987) for more.

Goofs
The white streak in Nancy's hair is seen on her right side, but it was on her left side in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).

Quotes
Freddy Krueger: This is it, Jennifer: your big break in TV.
[Jennifer screams]
Freddy Krueger: Welcome to prime time, bitch!
[smashes her into the TV screen]

Crazy credits
A text before the opening credits starts reads as follows: "Sleep. Those little slices of Death. How I loathe them" -Edgar Allan Poe-

Alternate versions
The VHS cassette released by Media Home Entertainment in the 1980s and the remastered 1999 New Line Home Video release features a different song in the beginning instead of Dokken's "Into the Fire." The 'unknown' song heard is "Quiet Cool" by Joe Lamont and substituted in place of the Dokken song. The US DVD re-instates the original song back into the film.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Tin Men/Some Kind of Wonderful/Angel Heart/A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)

Soundtracks
Dream Warriors
Composed and Performed by Dokken
Available on Elektra/Asylum Records & Tapes

Top review

6/10

Nancy is Back!

This is certainly one of the better "Nightmare on Elm Street" sequels. For the most part the dream sequences strike the perfect balance of silly and spooky, this film expands upon the world of the original film, it stars young Patricia Arquette ("Boyhood") and Lawrence Fishburne ("The Matrix"), and best of all Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp, "New Nightmare") makes her triumphant return to the franchise. I won't say this is a great movie, but if you enjoy the franchise, then it's certainly worth a watch.

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Release date
- February 27, 1987 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Official site
- New Line Cinema
Language
- English
Also known as
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
Filming locations
- UCLA, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production companies
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Budget
- $4,500,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $44,793,222
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,880,555
- Mar 1, 1987
Gross worldwide
- $44,793,222

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Runtime
1 hour 36 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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