Hot Picks

- There's No Such Thing as Zombies 2020

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Dream Hacker 2025

- Love and Comminication 2022

- If I Could Ride Again 2025

- Freak Off 2025

- Lavender Men 2025

- Lost Cos 2023

- Sound of the Surf 2022

- The Stillness 2025

- Frankie Freako 2024

- The Texas Witch 2025

- Cannibal Mukbang 2023

- Bleeding 2024

- No Choice 2025

- Nahual 2025

- Bitter Souls 2025

- A Very Long Carriage Ride 2025

- The Matriarch 2024

- Oxy Morons 2025

- Ed Kemper 2025

- Piglet 2025

- Walter, Grace & the Submarine 2024

- Midnight in Phoenix 2025

- Dorothea 2025

- Mauler 2025

- Consecration 2023

- The Death of Snow White 2025

- Franklin 2025

- ApoKalypse 2025

- Live and Die in East LA 2023

- A Season for Love 2025

- The Arkansas Pigman Massacre 2025

- Visceral: Between the Ropes of Madness 2012

- The Darkside of Society 2023

- Jackknife 2024

- Family Property 2: More Blood 2025

- Feral Female 2025

- Amongst the Wolves 2024

- Autumn 2023

- Bob Trevino Likes It 2024

- A Hard Place 2025

- Finding Nicole 2025

- Juliet & Romeo 2025

- Off the Line 2024

- First Moon 2025

- Healing Towers 2025

- Final Recovery 2025

- Greater Than 2014

- Self Driver 2024

- Primal Games 2025

- Grumpy 2023

- Swing Bout 2024

- Dalia and the Red Book 2024

- Project MKGEXE 2025

- Two to One 2024

- Left One Alive 2025

- Burgermen 2020

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

USA 1986
produced by
Robert Shaye, Wes Craven (executive), Stephen Diener (executive) for New Line, Smart Egg Pictures, Heron Communications
directed by Chuck Russell
starring Heather Langenkamp, Craig Wasson, Patricia Arquette, Robert Englund, Ken Sagoes, Rodney Eastman, Jennifer Rubin, Bradley Gregg, Ira Heiden, Laurence Fischburne, Penelope Sudrow, John Saxon, Priscilla Pointer, Clayton Landey, Brooke Bundy, Kristen Clayton, Sally Piper, Rozlyn Sorrell, Nan Martin, Stacey Alden, Dick Cavett, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Michael Rougas, Jack Shea, Paul Kent, Mary Brown, Melanie Doctors, Donna Durham
story by Wes Craven, Bruce Wagner, screenplay by Wes Craven, Bruce Wagner, Frank Darabont, Chuck Russell, music by Angelo Badalamenti, songs by Dokken, Freddy Krueger-makeup by Kevin Yagher, special efects by Tom Chesney, Bernardo F.Munoz, stop motion effects by Doug Beswick Productions, visual effects by Jeff Matakovich

A Nightmare on Elm Street/Freddy Krueger

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dick Turpin

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kamen Rider

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro


Because of her nightmares - about Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) of course - young Kristen (Patricia Arquette) just refuses to sleep and goes to painful length to stay awake ... to such an extent that even her self-centered mother (Brooke Bundy) starts to worry - and has her committed to a mental hospital. There Kristen meets the usual gallery of outcasts (drug addicts, disabled, geeks and so on) who also refuse to sleep and who share her nightmares - and whatever he tries, Doc Gordon (Craig Wasson) can't make head or tales of them. Enter Nancy (Heather Langenkamp), a psychiatrist who has once dreamt about Freddy Krueger too (see the original Nightmare on Elm Street) but who has escaped, and now she wants to help the kids in fighting Freddy. At first, rather naturally, Doc Gordon is more than skeptical, but when a few very mysterious deaths happen in the hospital he agrees to try Nancy's approach, and he organizes a meeting with the kids where they all join together in a nightmare - but unfortunately, this leads to one of them, Joey (Rodney Eastman) being lured away from the group (in the dream) and falling into a coma (in real life). And this in turn leads to Nancy and Gordon being both fired from their jobs.

However, both don't give up on the kids, and while Nancy soon finds a way to set up another secret meeting with them to fight and defeat Freddy for good, Gordon is looking for Freddy's remains in real life and is helped by Nancy's father (John Saxon) and a mysterious nun (Nan Martin), who of course turns out to be Freddy's dead mother in the end.

In another shared nightmare, Nancy and the kids use their special dream powers to fight Freddy, but at first it looks like a losing battle, especially after Freddy kills Nancy, but all is not lost when Joey turns up as an ace up the kids' sleeve while at the same time, in the real world, Gordon buries Freddy's remains. And suddenly, Freddy is no more - at least until the next movie ...

 

A very routine movie that in all fairness is much better than Nightmare on Elm Street 2, but it definitely lacks the inventiveness of the original Nightmare on Elm Street, substituting originality with horror mainstays and clichés, especially the group of outcast kids seems to little more than cutout-characters that you have seen in oh so many other films and TV-shows about outcast or troubled teens to an extent that it almost hurts. Still, the movie isn't all bad, it's well-crafted and the pacing is decent - just don't expect anything other than a routine shocker.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!