A Nightmare On Elms Street 3: Dream Warriors

A nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, In my Opinion is the true sequel to the original nightmare. Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's revenge was the oddball of the series, part2 sort of abandoned everything that happened in the first


A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, is strong movie, it has good characters and it builds on the mythos that was in original Nightmare On Elms Street and it put Freddy back into the nightmare terrorizing teenager, which is where he belongs. In Nightmare 3 we also see Heather Lankenkamp return to Nightmare 3 as Nancy Thompson, which is a crucial character connecting part 1 to Part 3.

Not only is Nancy back but in Part 3 we get to learn more about Freddy's life, other that he was a child murderer and then killed by the local parents of Springwood, and this is also the movie where we get the Freddy we love, the sarcasm and the wittiness come to the foreground in this film as well.

A nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors takes place approximately 6 years after the events of the first film and now Nancy Thompson is a graduate student and back in Springwood and has come back to join the staff at the local mental health institution. When she arrives at the hospital she learns that several kids from elm street are being treated, and all are having dreams far too similar to the dreams she had had as a teenager. Nightmare 3 also introduces the character Kristen, who has the remarkable ability to bring any person into her dreams with her. This ability gives Nancy the idea, that all the elm street kids have a dream power and this soon becomes the basis of Nancy's plan to stop Freddy once and for all. Trying to get her peers to see that these dreams are not a product of guilt and that they are actually been caused by Freddy and that if they die the dream they die in real life, presents itself to be problematic and because of this a few souls are collected. On top of all this other fun stuff we get to learn about Freddy's tragic birth.

This movie has itself some very good death scenes and probably one of my favorites is the sleepwalking scene, which it's probably a lot of peoples favorites; In this scene Freddy takes the shape of this puppet that the patient has made and then slices open the kids arms and legs and then pulls the veins out like the strings on a marionette and makes him walk himself up to the top of the building and jump, Nightmare 3 also has the giant snake that tries and eats Kristen, and also another of my favorites is when he kills this girl, who plans on becoming a TV Star when she get out of the hospital get her head shoved inside of TV, this is also where the famous line "Welcome to primetime, Bitch" was first uttered. Some oft eh dream powers are a bit silly (such as the wizard master). Kincaid has some of the best lines in the movie when it comes to calling Freddy names, also their is a shovel scene towards the end with Dr. Neil and a skeleton that is quite enjoyable to watch. Special effects in this movie don't stand up to today's standards, they were quite impressive when this movie was released.

Nightmare 3 is my favorite out of the series and is the best in the series aside from Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Nightmare 3 killing is no longer just a business of revenge but something he truly enjoys and has as much fun with as possible.

This is Part 1 in a 3 Part review series the next two will be A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child