A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors

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Summary: One Of The Best Sequels How A Nightmare Should Be Done
Review: The Best Nightmares are ( 1, 3, 6, 7, and maybe the 4th one) Langenkamp and Saxon return from the first nightmare in this best sequel. The Parts I Liked About This One was when Freddy killed Phillip by cutting his hands and legs open and When he put Jenn's Head in the TV and when he was a snake. I Felt sorry for Nancy when she died. I seen the DVD{last month} and the original video with the "Dokken Music Video" which I Have.

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Summary: The quintessential 80's horror flick
Review: This was totally eighties, from the "Dream Warriors" theme song sung by 80's hair band Dokken (Watch for the cool video with Patricia Arquette and George Lynch fighting off Freddy) to the "Dungeons and Dragons" power of one of the Dream Warriors. Heather Langenkamp is back playing a grown up and much sexier Nancy who is now a psychologist trying to help out the last of the Elm Street children, a group of disturbed teens locked up in a mental ward. Freddy is at his wisecracking best, and was actually cheered on by audiences in 1987 as he killed off the heroic teens! interesting little subplot about how Freddy came into the world, an errie tale told by his scary Mother Superior type mommy. See a young Lawrence Fishburne in his first role. Dr. Gordon tries in vain to seduce sexy Nancy but Freddy spoils his plans....all in all, a fun cool movie, one of the best of the series.

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Summary: Lame as Usual, but more Creative.
Review: This third entry to the NOES series delivers a somewhat boring plot (same as NOES 1), but what saves this from being a total bore is the creativity it involves. More elements are brought to our attention about Freddy's past life, the old house is back, but haunted, and Patricia Arquette and Heather Langenkamp are the two likable lead roles. NOES Fans, Watch it! But if not, it might be a bore.

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Summary: This is the sequel that number two should've been
Review: When I made up my mind to watch the entire "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, I almost stopped after the second one for fear that everything would go downhill after that terrible ending with the bus and whatnot. So, I was more than glad to have my faith in the series restored with "Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors," an amazingly good sequel that has Freddy sort of approaching the joker realm, but he still has that scarred face and wicked persona that make him scary enough to pull off some great sequences. "Dream Warriors" is one of the best entries in the series, and a lot of it was due to an imaginatively written screenplay. I give most of the credit to Wes Craven and Frank Darabont (that name should look familiar to fans of "The Shawshank Redemption"). There are a lot of dream sequences that left me in total awe. I loved the whole puppeteering scene and the idea of hypnosis being introduced with Patricia Arquette as the head of the dream warriors. Of course, Heather Langenkamp's return to the series helped, too. I loved this one!

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Summary: Next to the Best.
Review: I first saw the edited for t.v. movie on USA, and was really taken aback by it! That's how I became interested in the whole series. The actors and plot was really great, and ranks # 2 in comparison to the whole series. It gave more information on Freddy and who his mother was.

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Summary: This movie was an absolute suck fest
Review: I thought about rating this movie a 2 but I know that it will haunt me for the rest of my life. I seen this movie and every time I look at it, it hurt my freakin eyes. The movie takes place mostly in a psychiatric hospital and poor helpless teens are being terrorized by Freddy. But does it really matter? Because you don't care for the characters in the first place. Good let them die. The sooner they die, the sooner this movie is over. The plot had no freakin point. And the actors might as well been on drugz thru out the movie. But I must admit, the director must have some talent for making this movie as bad as it was. Almost as bad as "The Blair Witch Project" Do you got something to say about what I wrote? And I know you do. Please write to me at: [e-mail]

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Summary: It's a good sequel, but it's still a sequel
Review: Freddy is back and this time he's terrorizing a psyche ward. All the kids are related to those people who killed him and Nancy is back to offer "support" although she has those dream-suppressants. The nightmares are more flashy and the kids do get some power in their dreams, although it's never enough.

This is the movie where we learn the Freddy's mother was a nun raped by insane asylum inmates and there's the tired 'give the dead serial killer a decent burial and he'll behave himself' cliche. There are also some great moments and great acting from the terminally messed-up teenagers. Maybe it's just because the series calls for it, but it's nice to see teenagers who are screwed up instead of healthy, well-scrubbed and socially well-adjusted. Although it's less fun to see the former getting killed. You like them.

Still, there's not much more in this movie than the first one. Freddy is killing teenagers in their dreams. They fight back. Freddy dies. The end -- until the next sequel. It's done nicely and even though I'm tempted to take off a star for establishing the series and inspiring the next two insipid monstrosities, but this movie is pretty good on it's own merits and on the merits of continuing the first one. It's just not terribly original.

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Summary: 3rd time¿s...close enough. Another great set up.
Review: Freddy Kruger is a big tease on this one. He is back as the tormentor of a ward for children brought there because of their nightmares about him. "Those can't be real, so it is all a figment of their imagination". The grownups (who destroyed Freddy) just won't listen. The usual, but now Nancy is back (from the first one). Thank God for this return to stir things up. Well, the title "Dream Warriors" is good because it pretty much tells the story. The people have abilities within these nightmares. Hmmm....the powers aren't all that great and the possessors aren't worth caring about.

Forget about them for a sec except one in the character Kristen and her power to pull people into dreams. This manages to keep the action going inside your mind. This along with the young kids playing around the house is fun and chilling stuff. Not to mention the fact that Freddy stabs for the funny bone while showing his evilness. Signs for the future as Freddy for a fun lover. Also extremely note worthily is a death (well a few big ones) that make you think it is done for good, but as we know their are two more (three counting the more psychological "New Nightmare"). Also the showing of something on Freddy's chest before he gets his is very tell tale (see "4, Dream Master" for more detials).

I must admit that my system for rating the "Nightmare..." films is different. They always get 2 stars to start for all the entertainment they brought me through the years. They have to work for more when I watch them now. If a film is a really good setup one like this the first and this one, it's got me. Both films are good for the series, but but aren't that solid as just plain movies. Now you must must see four to know what I mean.

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Summary: Childish horror, but fun.
Review: Look at this... a part in the Nightmare on Elm Street series that is actually good! Unbelievable you maybe think, but this part have a script for a feature length film and characters we care for (well, at least a little bit). Some kids who have survived from Freddys nightmares are now at a bedlam cause no one believes them. Then Heather Langenkamp, who was in part 1 and the only one who believes them, start working with them and together they try to kill Freddy. Not an original story maybe and it is a bit childish, but I like it. Stupid childish fun and I didn't get bored once like I usually do in these kind of films. Well worth a look if you are in the mood.

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Summary: Venture into the Dreamland of Freddy's world
Review: While I was watching "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors," I thought to myself that this is what a sequel should be. Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) returns to the lineup in this third installment of the classic series as a past victim who will do anything to help out the teenagers that Freddy Krueger is now terrorizing. However, to help the kids out, she needs their cooperation and the help of Dr. Gordan.

What makes "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3" a great sequel is that it has a lot of good horror scenes such as Freddy turning into a snake and trying to eat Kristen (Patricia Arquette), and it also has good suspense, and even a sense of adventure. Dr. Gordan insists to Nancy's father that he shows him where Freddie Krueger's bones were buried years ago. At the same time, Nancy, Kristen, and the rest of the ones who are being terrified by Freddy's nightmarish wrath, and must team up to do what they can to save themselves. That's when the sense of adventure comes into focus.

The special effects for "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3" are also top notch. If you like horror movies, I recommend getting this movie.