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A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Released: 2/87
Run time:96 mins.
Plot Summary: Picking up where the original
Nightmare left off, Nancy has grown up and become a psychiatrist specializing
in dream therapy. She meets a group of children at a local hospital
facing Freddy Krueger, the same demon she once encountered in her sleep.
One of them is Kristen, who has the power to draw other people into
her dreams. Working with a male doctor assigned to the case, Nancy helps
the kids realize their special abilities within the nightmare world.
When Freddy captures one of her charges, she leads a rescue attempt
into Krueger's domain, in hopes of putting his spirit to rest once and
for all.
Tagline: If you think you'll get out alive,
You must be dreaming.
Cast (in credits order):
Heather Langenkamp .... Nancy Thompson
Craig Wasson .... Dr. Neil Gordan
Patricia Arquette .... Kristen Parker
Robert Englund .... Freddy Krueger
Ken Sagoes .... Roland Kincaid
Rodney Eastman .... Joey Crusel
Jennifer Rubin (I) .... Taryn White
Bradley Gregg .... Phillip Anderson
Ira Heiden .... Will Stanton
Laurence Fishburne .... Max
Penelope Sudrow .... Jennifer Caulfield
John Saxon .... Donald Thompson
Priscilla Pointer .... Dr. Elizabeth Simms
Clayton Landey .... Lorenzo
Brooke Bundy .... Elaine Parker
Trivia:
- The scene in which Neil Gordon (Craig Wasson) is thrown into the
grave andpartially buried by the skeleton of Freddy is a tribute to
Body Double (1984), in which Wasson's character is similarly buried
alive.
- When the clay puppet face turns into Freddy's, special-effects man
Doug Beswick used stop-motion animation. Filming began with a clay
Freddy face that was made plainer in each frame. The result was then
run backwards, and that is what appears in the final cut of the film.
- For the scene where Freddy kills Jennifer, his line in the script
was "This is it Jennifer, your big break on TV!". Robert
Englund said this line for the first two takes, but on the third take
changed it to "Welcome to Prime Time, bitch!" Director Chuck
Russell couldn't decide which version to use, so he edited to two
together.
- The scene in which Neil Gordon (Craig Wasson) is thrown into the
grave and partially buried by the skeleton of Freddy is a tribute
to Body Double (1984), in which Wasson's character is similarly buried
alive.
- The movie that on TV that Jennifer watches before she dies is Critters
(1986).
- Sally Kellerman was originally in the script, as the guest on the
Dick Cavett show in scene in which Jennifer dies.
- The original "Freddy Snake" was unintentionally looked
too phallic, and was thus painted with a very dark green to overpower
the "pinkish hue."
- When Taryn is first seen in the hallway she's wearing a Dokken
shirt. Dokken wrote and performed "Dream Warriors" and "Into
The Fire" for this film.
- According to Robert Englund's journal printed in an issue of "Fangoria"
magazine around the time of the movie's release, the original Freddy
Krueger glove was stolen from the set of this film during filming
and not during Nightmare 2 as is often mis-credited.
Goofs:
- Continuity: Nancy's streak is seen on the right side, when it was
on the left side in A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984).
- Continuity: When Freddy lunges at Kristen when she back-flips off
the wall, he punches the wall with his fist. But in the close up following,
his blades are stuck in the wall.
- Continuity: In the junkyard, they park the truck and turn off the
lights. A short while later, the lights are back on again when Thompson
is trying to get back into the truck.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the room starts to change and
get hot, Kristen is heard screaming, "This isn't real!"
but her mouth does not move.
- Continuity: When Freddy and Kristen are fighting in the boiler room,
there are some barrels full of bones. Later they disappear.
- Continuity: During the opening titles, while Kristen is making the
model of the Elm Street house, the color of her pajamas changes between
shots.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Nancy is killed, Kristen runs
at Freddy and receives an uppercut. There is a smacking sound audible,
but Freddy can visibly be seen missing her.
- Revealing mistakes: While Kristen runs carrying the little girl
it becomes apparent that she's only running with a doll.
- Revealing mistakes: When Kristen is observing the pig on a platter,
the initial shot shows an apple stuffed into its mouth. However, when
it jumps out at her, the pig's mouth is empty.
- Crew or equipment visible: Crash mat visible when Freddy turns the
kid into a puppet and cuts the strings.
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