FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
“You are the last of the Elm Street children.”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, trauma, misdiagnosis, medical malpractice, mental health stigma, suicide, mental illness.
Wes Craven didn’t think Freddy Krueger could be a legitimate franchise character. And then the sequel basically printed money, and Wes thought it might be a good idea to jump back in the fray. This time, though, he and his co-writers returned back to the dream world, and Freddy comes for Nancy and a crew of new kids who discover, maybe, the path to destroy Freddy once and for all. No, the acting hasn’t gotten any better, and no, the dialogue is still way too on the nose. But this is a real promising return to form for the franchise, and introduces a ton of new ideas for a great horror villain. We discuss A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “Dream Warriors,” written by George Lynch and Jeff Pilson and performed by Dokken. Copyright 1987 Elektra/Asylum Records.
Excerpt taken from “Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You),” written by John Easdale and performed by Dramarama. Copyright 1985, 1990 Chameleon Records.
