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.

THE APPLE (1980)

You thought XANADU was weird? Well, it doesn't hold a candle THE APPLE on the weirdness meter. Even for the 70's this sucker was weird. I'm not even sure what the filmmakers, but I'm glad it turned out how it did because I love this movie! The songs are so energetic and the dancing so contagious that a couple of time I thought about jumping up and dancing around the room. Then I remembered that I would look like an asshole so I didn't.

In 1994 the world has been taken over by BIM music which is created by a Mr. Boogalow who also happens to be Satan. Two young folk singers (Adam and Eve?) come to his attention and he asks to sign them. The female (a very hot Catherine Mary Stewart) signs while her male partner refuses. Overnight she becomes the the most popular singer in the world, but not with folksy love songs but BIM music. The male becomes a heartbroken nobody and is even harassed by the ever present police when he refuses to wear the now mandatory BIM sticker (the Mark of the Beast?) on his face. He eventually joins a hippie cult that lives in a nearby cave. Will they ever get back together? Will BIM music take over the world?! Will I eventually dance around my living room?

Top 5 musical numbers: 1) the one where the male singer sees a vision of Hell, complete with an actual, actual, actual vampire! 2) the one where Mr. Boogalow explains how good he is at being a master. 3) the opening BIM song. 4) Speed!!! 5) the newly enacted but mandatory stop work and dance dance. I especially liked the dancing riot police.

If you love cheesy 70's/early 80's musicals like THE PIRATE MOVIE, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE and XANADU then you need to check out THE APPLE as soon as possible. You're life depends on it! Everybody else will probably hate it.

I did notice in the trailer that there's some scenes not shown on the DVD version of the film. Does that means there's a longer cut out there somewhere? Maybe an extended cut would explain the bizarre ending.

I love the fact that the director, writer and producer of this film, Menahem Golan, went on to produce some of the greatest action movies of the 80's like AMERICAN NINJA, INVASION U.S.A., THE DELTA FORCE and MISSING IN ACTION 2!!! I watched all four of those movies hundreds of times when I was a kid. Somebody should write a book about that guy. He also produced the underrated TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2! "Dog will hunt."