Moving on to the dream world of Freddy's nightmare party, I've finally stumbled upon a third installment that may be the better sequel out of all the Nightmare on Elm Street movies so far. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors follows a group of kids in a insane asylum which runs by returning Nightmare survivor Heather Langenkamp, and Larry Fishburne aka Lawrence Fishburne. This good slasher film brings back a lot of the old and new characters but more importantly brings back Wes Craven in the writer’s circle along with Frank Darabont, writer and director behind the greatest classic Shawshank Redemption and a surprising writer and director who made an early nineties Jim Carrey movie that you never realized would have directed it.
During a hallucinatory incident, young Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette) has her wrist slashed by dream-stalking monster Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund). Her mother, mistaking her wounds for a suicide attempt, sends Kristen to a psychiatric ward, where she joins a group of similarly troubled teens. One of the doctors there is Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), who battled Freddy some years before. Nancy senses potential in Kristen to rid the world of Freddy once and for all.
After the critical failure of Freddy's Revenge, New Line Cinema was unsure whether to continue with the series or dismantle it. Craven, who written and directed the original, didn't want to participate with the sequel and for good reasons he didn't want the original to evolve into a franchise. Even though Craven came on to co-write the script and following the success Dream Warriors New Line Cinema was able to continue with a series franchise, for which let's be honest and everyone should know this and that's producers are always addicted to illegal drugs, and they need movie money to pay off their dealers. With this latest installment, they actually improved with the second film despite the film being not so bad, and really what makes the film way better was that they cast back Heather Langenkamp to reprise her role as Nancy for which she does a great job being a supportive doctor to all of these trouble kids and even casting back her dad, John Saxon back into the movie for which they do a great job playing the dysfunctional father and daughter where they don't want to relive the horror, each of them endured. The other thing in what makes Dream Warriors a much better is that we dive deeper into Freddy Kruger's backstory and what made him into this monster and get more insight of how the man died especially for which you do get a little more in intro part of Freddy vs. Jason but with this movie is a whole lot better in my opinion. The other thing that makes the movie great is that you have some good writers besides Wes Craven, into making a better story, the fact that you have Frank Darabont who went on to make great movies like Shawshank Redemption as well as The Green Mile. And not just Wes Craven and Frank Darabont helping to improve the script, but you also have co-writer and director of the film, Chuck Russel who also went on to make Jim Carrey's The Mask as well as launching The Rock's acting career with The Scorpion King for which I remember watching at the movie theaters, and let's just say was one of the many movies in my youth was the reason I love chicks and boobs. The surprisingly good fact about the movie is actress, Jennifer Rubin who plays a sort of punk rock patient, was told by some of her fans that her character in the movie caused them to quit doing drugs after the movie's release, for which really is the coolest thing about the film and something Rubin is very proud of even to this day. Dream Warriors is still on HBO Max and Hulu in the month of October so, if you ever need a scary movie night to turn your brain off Dream Warriors is by far the better sequel you can watch after the original Nightmare on Elm Street.
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