With A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, I could tell that they wanted to forget about Part 2 and go back to the original story, but at the same time a new standard is set for the series with creatively sadistic ways to kill the poor teens that in someway play on their interests and a more lighthearted and corny sense of humor.
Heather Lagenkamp returns as Nancy, but now she's a therapist who specializes in dreams and she comes to Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital to help out a group of 7 teens all having the same Freddy-filled nightmares that she has. The main character in this one is played by Patricia Arquette in just her 2nd movie, and she does a great job, she's quite a good screamer.
Of the first three movies in this series, this is the one I remembered the most about and has the tone that I remembered from them, but maybe I'd only seen 3-6, I can't remember. The tone is silly, but fun. With great one-liners from Freddy during his kills like: "This is it, your big break in TV. Welcome to primetime, b****!" as he slams the head of the girl who wanted to be a TV star into the TV (as seen in the header pic).
Overall, this was the most fun of the 3 in this series I watched, but definitely not as good a movie as the first. It had the best closing credits song though. German hair metal band Dokken's " classic "Dream Warrirors".
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