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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Horror · Thriller · Fantasy · 1987

A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

Movie details

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

“If you think you'll get out alive, you must be dreaming.”

1987 Horror · Thriller · Fantasy 1h 36m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.7 / 10

99.2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

68 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

49 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.7 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Chuck Russell

Written by

Frank Darabont · Chuck Russell · Wes Craven · Bruce Wagner

Patricia Arquette

Patricia Arquette

Kristen Parker

Heather Langenkamp

Heather Langenkamp

Nancy Thompson

Craig Wasson

Craig Wasson

Dr. Neil Gordon

Robert Englund

Robert Englund

Freddy Krueger

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

Max

Ken Sagoes

Ken Sagoes

Kincaid

Rodney Eastman

Rodney Eastman

Joey

Court is in session

Put A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.