A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS (1987)

By some stroke of Hollywood luck, eight children of the parents who originally killed Freddy are now all unknowingly patients (and staff) at the same psychiatric hospital and in group therapy together!  Talk about coincidence!

Anyway, so everybody is conveniently located at the same hospital together and after Freddy kills a few people, they realize what's going on and decide to fight back using Patricia Arquette's ability to pull people into her dreams and Ken Sagoes' ability to call Krueger a "burnt-face pussy".

I always enjoyed Part 3.  Even after probably 50+ viewings, I can still turn it on and enjoy the entire thing.  I think I have the script memorized at this point.  Steady pace, nice special effects, Freddy losing a blade off his glove, CRITTERS and ALONE IN THE DARK on TV, an awesome (and underused) Freddy snake creature, Arquette's annoying screeching, one attractive topless nurse with cool 80's hair, zero gore, a little blood, Freddy popping off a couple of one-liners, Laurence Fishburne in a minor role, Freddy folding his blades in before they hit a wall, Freddy moving his needle blades so they'll line up with the close-up that followed.

That main poster makes me wish somebody would make a unrated animated Freddy movie. Just look at that ball with the spikes! I didn't see that shit in the movie!

Part 1 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Part 2 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
Part 4 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
Part 5 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
Part 6 - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Part 7 - Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
Freddy vs Jason (2003)
Remake 1 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Freddy missing a blade.

Laurence Fishburne watching CRITTERS.