A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1987
R
1h 36m

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6.7/10

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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.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

94K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,914

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

Trivia
On the VHS release, the music video for Dokken's "Dream Warriors" appeared after the credits. The video contains many scenes from the movie and ends when the band vanquishes Freddy, causing him to wake up from his "nightmare," and ask, "Who were those guys?" (despite them telling him the whole song that they're the dream warriors.")

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
All the grips are nicknamed "Bob", except for the last, which is a variation on the name.

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 Siskel & Ebert: Tin Men/Some Kind of Wonderful/Angel Heart/A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)

Soundtracks
Into the Fire
Composed by Don Dokken, George Lynch, and Jeff Pilson
Performed by Dokken

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Featured review

8/10

My Favourite Nightmare!

Totally appreciating and loving the original, I can understand why many fans hold it as the best in the series. But for me, Dream Warriors is the best for many reasons...

I think the top one though has to be that it was a childhood favourite!

With a much bigger budget than the previous two, this sequel went all out with bigger set pieces, bigger effects and a much bigger story including more history on Freddy. It brought back Nancy and her dad from part one, was produced by Wes Craven, and had a fresh new cast who were ready to rumble.

This came out when I was 10 and starting to be a big fan of horror films. It still scared the hell out of me but for the first time also let me see that Freddy could get beaten as the team of heroes found a way to control their dreams and be stronger.

This was important for a ten year old, especially as I was having dreams of Freddy myself and needed to find a way to beat him!

Thankfully, I did - and Dream Warriors became a film I would watch over and over, and still love to this day!