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Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Info:
- Release Date: February 27, 1987
- Creators: Chuck Russell (director), Wes Craven (writer)
- Genre: Deadly Dreams
- Rating: ★★★★☆
Plot:
- Several teens at a psychiatric hospital ("The last of the Elm Street children") are having the same nightmares about a severely burned child serial killer. Enter Nancy, psych intern extraordinaire, who might be able to help them tie all the loose ends together.
Notes:
- Freddy snake under the Oriental rug
- Wizard Master gaming session
- Neil filling up Thompson's empty booze bottle with holy water
- Do they really need to dig that wide of a hole to bury Freddy's bones?!!
- The final showdown between the remaining warriors and Freddy
- "You want me to prescribe an experimental psychoactive drug to a bunch of suicidal teenagers?!"
- "In my dreams, I'm the Wizard Master"
- "In my dreams, I'm beautiful... and bad"
- Dokken's Dream Warriors over the ending credits
Dream Warriors Breakdown: - Kristen, who can pull people into her dreams
- Philip, the doomed puppeteer sleepwalker
- Kincaid, the solitary, grumpy strong one
- Joey, the silent one who used to be a debater in school
- Will, the wheelchair-bound fantasy gamer
- Jennifer, who burns herself with cigarettes and wants to be an actress
- Taryn, the heroin junkie who's going through some very strange shit
Cast:
- Heather Langenkamp as Nancy
- Patricia Arquette as Kristen
- Laurence Fishburne as Max
- Ira Heiden as Wil
- Ken Sagoes as Kincaid
- Rodney Eastman as Joey
- Jennifer Rubin as Taryn
- Bradley Gregg as Phillip
- Penelope Sudrow as Jennifer
- Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
- Brooke Bundy as Elaine
- Priscilla Pointer as Dr. Simms
- John Saxon as Thompson
- Craig Wasson as Neil
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