A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | | Cast : | Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund | | Director : | Chuck Russell | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | February 27, 1987 | | DVD Released Date : | September 06, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | Matches up to the 1st | Content
 | Wes Craven is written all over the film. Its obvious this is a Wes Craven film. The kills are inventive unlike the opposing Friday the 13th films. There are some creepy parts but overall again doesn't scare me. Nancy... ooh well let me say her perfomance in this is very weak. You get to know the characters well, before most of them are killed off. The film has creativity and is entertaing but has its dull parts.
******BEWARE FREDDY******************************************* |
| Rating | | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | "Welcome to the primetime bitch!" | Content
| Please don't be offended by my review's title, it's only a quote straight from the master of horrible,yet funny, one-liners himself.... Freddy Krueger! I think this is probably the best sequel of the series. The original nightmare girl, Nancy, is back and we get a little taste of what happened to her, her mom, and her dad after the events of the first movie. (Since Nightmare 2 had no connection to the characters of parts 1,3,4,and 5.)I like the acting performances in this movie, they seem less mediocre when compared to the other flicks of the genre and time period. Robert Englund, the only man that could ever wear the glove, is impressivly scary and is also becoming quite the one-liner spouting serial madman we've all come to love. The death scenes are awesome and completely original in this film. We also get a pretty high body count. (unless of course you count the pool party massacre of Part 2)Yep, this horror film is quite stylish and well worth your fifteen dollars. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 26, 2005 | | Summary | 2.99 STARS: If science is your only faith Doctor, it may be you that is laid to rest. | Content
| Wes Craven returned to direct "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3-Dream Warriors". "Nightmare 3" is a bit over the top as the movie goes to the extreme with some of the ideas presented in this movie. The concept of "dream warriors" is interesting, but if one is having a nightmare, you do not have any super powers to work with...the very idea of having a nightmare means you are in a vulnerable situation. Such would seem to be the case if Freddy Krueger is after you, but this movie presents the idea that the remaining "Elm Street" kids have special powers...hence the name "Nightmare 3 Dream Warriors".
In a sense, the best part about this movie is the myriad of nightmares that the audience sees and the question of whether a particular is delusion or reality is quite effective in this movie. However, because the movie is a bit over the top in its approach, I would argue that any horror is somewhat suppressed by how flamboyant each scene is designed to be.
"Nightmare 3" pretty much leaves no trace of part 2 of the series as we have totally different characters and a return of a couple of characters from the beginning in Nancy Thompson and her father. The plot is simple as the audience is presented with several young kids who are the last kids remaining from "Elm Street" and Freddy wishes to torment and kill these kids as they are the offspring of the original killers of Freddy Krueger's human existence.
All of these kids have some special power. In particular, Kristen has a gift by which she bring other people into her dreams. Each kid has been institutionalized because of their apparent state of "psychosis". Freddy attacks each kid in their dreams and a couple of kids are murdered, but appear to the doctors to be suicide victims. Nancy, from the original movie, is an intern at the psychiatric ward and she convinces Dr. Gordon to try an experimental drug to keep the kids from dreaming...this radical form of treatment along with unsupervised hypnosis gets the two of them fired. Can Nancy and Dr. Gordon save the kids or will Krueger kill them all? Also, what of the mysterious nun who knows so much about Freddy? Could she hold the secret to how Krueger must be destroyed? There are some interesting storyline, but the movie largely fails in its attempt to be scary or a great horror movie, although the movie does have some merit.
Freddy's kills are quite imaginitive but a bit over the top and not very effective. I mean who wants to see Freddy's head come out the top of a TV and his arms come out the side and then kill some girl? I prefer the old fashioned Freddy to this type of horror...still, the outrageous is part of Freddy's world. I recommend this movie, but it is certainly not as good as the original or the sequel...I give this movie a WEAK THREE STAR (probably doesn't quite deserve three stars, so I will settle on 2.99 STARS) rating to reflect its originality and creativity but also to reflect its inability to produce credible and convincing horror in the audience. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2005 | | Summary | A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) | Content
| In 1987, director Chuck Russell had brought us, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS.
KRISTEN PARKER (played by Patricia Arquette) has been having horrifying nightmares about FREDDY KRUEGER (again played by Robert Englund). Kristen lives on Elm Street and is one of the children, whose mother, ELAINE PARKER (played by Brooke Bundy), was involved with burning Freddy alive. She sits up one night and is seen building something. But what? We don't know. Her mother walks in and puts her to bed. What Kristen is building is a house. The house at...1428 Elm Street, Nancy's house. Kristen has another nightmare, but she seems to have awoken without fight Freddy. She goes into the bathroom to do her...business. But the knobs on the sink grab her and slashes her wrists.
At the Springwood Hospital, DR. NEIL GORDON (played by Craig Wasson) deals with the remaining children of Elm Street, whose parents were all involved in the murder of Freddy Krueger. Amongst those teens are WILL STANTON (played by Ira Heiden), JENNIFER CAULFIELD (played by Penelope Sudrow), TARYN WHITE (played by Jennifer Rubin), PHILLIP ANDERSON (played by Bradley Gregg), ROLAND KINCAID (played by Ken Sagoes), & JOEY CRUSEL (played by Rodney Eastman).
DR. ELIZABETH SIMMS (played by Priscilla Pointer) is the head of this group, with Neil as her assistant. Dr. Simms has hired a new staff member, who seems to be real successful in pattern nightmares. As they discuss this, trouble is happening. Kristen has been added to Dr. Simms and Neil's group, but she is flipping out. They try to calm her down, but can't. She is sing the Freddy Krueger rhyme. She seems to have trouble getting out the last line, until a familiar voice finishes it off for Kristen. The voice belongs to...NANCY THOMPSON (again played by Heather Langenkamp). Nancy is the new staff member.
That night, Kristen falls asleep and has another nightmare. She calls out Nancy's name. For some oddball reason, Nancy actually hears Kristen's voice. Nancy falls asleep and finds herself in Kristen's nightmare, where she saves Kristen and realizes that Freddy is back and ready to kill. She has Kristen wake them both up.
The next morning, Nancy talks to Kristen about how she did what she did and how Nancy is so amazed by it. Which leads Nancy into having her first group therapy with the rest of the kids. That night, Phillip has a nightmare of Freddy turning him into one of Phillip's marionettes, which is how Phillip meets his demise.
The next day, the kids discuss in group, but Neil and Dr. Simms seem to think that Phillip committed suicide, just like the others in the past. But we all know that Phillip was not suicidal, but murdered. Neil and Nancy decide that they prescribe Hypnocil for the kids, a dream suppressant for the kids. Dr. Simms, after some persuading, agrees. But that night, Jennifer meets Freddy and her death.
The next day, Neil and Nancy hold a therapy session with Kristen, Taryn, Will, Joey, and Kincaid, without the authority of Dr. Simms. There, Nancy tells the kids of Freddy and what he wants, which leads her into telling them of Kristen's gift. They try it once, but it doesn't seem to work. Suddenly, something indicates that it did, where Will, supposed to be paralyzed, is actually standing on his feet. The others show off their dream talents, all except Joey, who has been lured into another room by the beautiful nurse, Marcie. She strips down and begins kissing Joey, until she turns into...Freddy.
The others are experiencing horrifying events until Dr. Simms interrupts the session. Joey is now in a coma, relieving both Neil and Nancy of their duties at the hospital. Neil, packing up his car, notices someone at the top of the abandoned tower. It is SISTER MARY HELENA (played by Nan Martin). Neil had already met her at Jennifer's funeral, where she was in the middle of telling him how to kill Freddy once and for all. He runs up to the tower, where Sister Mary Helena is. She continues her story on how to kill Freddy. She reveals that a young woman worked in the tower, the criminally insane ward, that would be. She was locked inside with the 100 inmates over the holidays. They had raped her thousands of times. When the staff came back after the holidays, the woman was barely alive and pregnant. The woman was...Amanda Krueger, Freddy's mother. The way to stop Freddy is to find his remains and bury them in hollow ground.
Nancy knows one person who knows where the remains are...LT. DONALD THOMPSON (again played by John Saxon). He refuses to tell her. At that moment, Neil gets a page from Taryn. He calls Taryn and finds out that Kristen flipped out, where Dr. Simms doped her up and put her in the quiet room. Nancy goes to the kids, while Neil gets Lt. Thompson to drive him to the remains of Freddy.
At the hospital, Nancy is not permitted to see Kristen. She gets to the others, where they go into the dream with Kristen. They all get separated. Will and Taryn are killed off, leaving Nancy with Kristen and Kincaid. They find Joey and Freddy. They save Joey, and are now after Freddy, since they can't wake up, with Kristen being sedated. Nancy then sees her father. Her father had been killed by Freddy's remains. She hugs him, but she feels someone stabbing her in the stomach. Freddy had imitated her father to kill her off, but not before she grabs his arm and shoves the knives very deep into his stomach. At that moment, Neil buries the remains, pours Holy water and a Crucifix on top. Freddy has died, yet, again.
Much better than the second film, even though, the second film was a worthy follow-up. By this film, Freddy started to become more comical than horrifying. You'll notice that as the films progress. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 02, 2005 | | Summary | All of the Right Elements | Content
| Dream Warriors brings back exactly what Freddy's Revenge lacked. Actual Elm Street kids as in kids of the parents who torched Freddy; Imaginative dream sequences; Characters with some depth and relationships worth caring about; and Heather Langenkamp.
Dream Warriors is a perfect example of what I wish every Nightmare movie could have been about. Freddy takes each kid's own weakness and uses it against them. In later sequels, these sort of things are hinted at or underused. In Dream Warriors, the weaknesses of the kids gave the kids character and depth. And this gave Freddy more character too. I'm not generally saying all the kids gave great acting. The better performances come from Patricia Arquette (the girl can scream) and Jennifer Rubin ("In my dreams, I'm beautiful ... and baaad.")
Chuck Russel captures a very unique atmosphere in Dream Warriors. Subtle blues and blatant reds are used a lot and sets the tone of the film very well. The dream sequences are the best here: the freddy snake, the puppet boy, Taryn's nightmare, and the first use of the Elm Street house in it's dream-state.
On my list of best to worst Elm Streets, Dream Warriors sits at #2 right after New Nightmare. It has what the original Nightmare had, has more, and it has what the following sequels tried to capitalize on but didn't do as well.
The DVD is much like most of the Nightmare. Simple, widescreen, trailer, that's all. But this one is worth the simple disc. |
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