Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
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Kirsten (Patricia Arquette) has nightmares. We meet her one night as she builds a house out of paper mache and popsicle sticks trying to stay awake by eating coffee grinds and diet coke. As she’s about to drift off to sleep she catches herself and blares her music causing her mother to come upstairs. Her mother (who sucks by the way) tells her to go to bed and leaves to tend to her bourbon searching guest. As she drifts off to sleep we see a familiar house…the one similar to the one she built…it’s Nancy’s old house (and I’m sure Jesse moved outta there faster than you can say Freddy Krueger). She follows a little girl into the house where she runs into our favorite guy…Freddy (Robert Englund)! She wakes up from the dream and heads to the bathroom where the sink comes to life and grabs her and cuts her wrists open but when her mom wakes her up she’s slitting her own wrists.

In the background you hear a radio saying that there has been a disturbing increase in suicides in young children lately. Kirsten is in a room fighting off all the nurses that are trying to sedate her. Grabbing a scalpel she starts singing the song from her dream. In enters Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) to finish her song…instantly calming Kirsten.

Nancy (yay! From the first movie!) is a new intern at a mental hospital that specializes in sleep disorder patients who try to kill themselves. She goes to Kirsten’s mother to ask if she noticed anything weird about her daughter before the suicide attempt…while her mother was rather unhelpful she does go to Kirsten’s room to retrieve some things and sees the house she made…recognizing it as her own. When she confronts Kirsten she finds out that she can pull people into her dreams with her. Is Kirsten’s gift going to be enough to save an entire ward of children who start to die off one by one? Or are they all doomed to be killed by the murderous Krueger?

It's not considered unethical to egg your patients on and then tell your superior that you have the same dreams as your patients after only a few days on the job.
People see a girl shoved into a tv set mounted high on the wall and just assume it was suicide.
A small white girl can take out a big black man.
Patients know their doctor's pager number.

"I said where's the fucking bourbon bitch?" ~Freddy Krueger.

They changed the story again! Ahhh!

It's weird that they hid the body of Krueger in the Cadillac that Glen drove in the first movie...didn't they burn his body before the whole first movie happened?? (I always assumed that Freddy was killed while all those kids were...well...kids...or before they were even born)?

I guess I’ll start with the inconsistencies again. In the second movie they say that Nancy saw her boyfriend murdered and her mom killed herself in their living room and then Nancy went crazy. Well…Nancy’s mom was killed by Krueger and she never saw Glen get killed…she just knew he was dead (and I’m assuming I’m not SPOILING anything…because you’ll have seen the 1st one by now…right?). Nancy couldn’t have gone crazy cause she seems just fine in this movie (they say she went off to college). Now, in this movie…six years has past…meaning the second movie only happened a year before…wouldn’t Nancy know about that? Also the boiler factory in the second one is never mentioned and they’re back to saying he was burned in his house. Alright…with all those inconsistencies aside…this was actually a good movie! It was a little more tongue and cheek (or is the saying tongue IN cheek?? I dunno…) but the lines he said were actually funny. It was a lot less serious and a lot less about Freddy killing people and more about these kids and their therapy and how they were the last of the generation of kids who’s parents killed Freddy (which is weird ‘cause they’re a lot younger than Nancy…but hey). Something that bothers me is they don’t really say whether or not Freddy can come out when people aren’t dreaming. He can come out if someone pulls him out and when he’s in another’s body…but can he just come out whenever? Because he does so in this movie and attacks people. Oh well. Again, I was pleasantly surprised by this film actually being good and not too lame…although the banding together and becoming warriors in their dreams and fighting Krueger was kinda cheesy. I was also happy to hear the origin or Freddy and why he was so messed up to begin with. My favorite part of the entire Nightmare on Elm Street saga is the different ways Freddy kills or hurts people. They're so imaginative! Love it! So good times! Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

(Amused and Pleased that my brain is still intact after watching 3 Nightmare on Elm Street movies in a row)

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