Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) by Maineutral R — 23 Nov 2013

After a really terrible sequel, Nightmare On Elm Street goes back on track with the third movie and second sequel: Dream Warriors. This movie now apllies action and less suspense, but fairly a lot more visual style, which lacked big time in the second film. The performances were nice, the story and explained origin of Freddy Krueger were pretty descent and this feels like a complementary sequel instead of an unnessessary one, which normally slasher horror sequels never do. However, this third movie has problems with it's climax, it never lives up to it's potential and feels incompetent, and after that, it has that very sporadic fast-paced epilogue that nobody likes, and that the previous Elm movies also had. It ultimately feels rushed and doesn't quite adds to nothing after finishing the movie; more easy to say: it doesn't last long in your memory.

All the same, Dream Warriors is a huge improvement over the terrible Freddy's Revenge. It's like the makers did learn from their mistakes and put a lot of what we originally wanted in the second movie. I liked a lot the visual effects and there's a lot of fun when Robert Englund is on screen as Krueger. All leaves to a more fun, more entertaining, more fast paced sequel to the original movie. Take it for what it is, a sometimes ridiculous but overall fun movie to spend time.