unless i be sadly mistaken and i rent a nightmare on elm street 3 several year ago and there be a music video and i be pretty sure which be call dream warrior and at the end of it and and i rent this one on dvd hoping that the video would be there because it be one of the funny thing i have ever see . it amaze how stuff from the 80 be so funny now and but nothing be funny than 80 rap video . there be this rap group sing that song dream warrior on the vhs version of this movie after the credit and and theyre all wear like denim jacket with no shirt underneath and form fitting jean short that be all fray at the bottom like daisy duke . what could make a rap group look more foolish i can not imagine . ( spoiler ) at any rate and i be disappoint in look for that video on the dvd version and so all i have be this mediocre installment in the freddy krueger series . the movie sort of start off with the same idea a part 2 and with the main character witness all kind of gruesome murder and then sort of come out of a trance and find himself with the bloody hand . kristen parker ( patricia arquette ) have a nightmare about the infamous house that nancy thompson use to live in and then run to the bathroom and the sink handle turn into freddy hand and attack her and and then she wake up stand in her bathroom have slit her own wrist . from there and the movie turn into the usual mental hospital installment . ` larry fishburne and tire of always play the bad guy in his role and be happy to take on the role in this film a a nice guy orderly and stern but accommodate when the patient want to bend the rule a little . not surprisingly and he turn in what be by leap and bound the best performance in the movie . arquette later go on to become an accomplished actor and but have not perfect her act skill when she star in this film . the character in the movie be mostly all patient at the mental hospital that kristen be place into after cut her wrist . all of them be cynical and uncooperative and almost none believe that they really belong there at all . eventually and they realize and be able to convince the staff that they be all have dream about the same man and it not just some kind of group hysteria . heather langenkamp have return in her famous role a nancy thompson and this time grow up into a dream researcher a a result of her childhood experience involve freddy krueger . not surprisingly and she be able to quickly relate to the hysterical kristen and the rest of the patient and since she have experience exactly what theyre go through . there be some interesting murder in this installment and and the technology use for the special effect have take a huge jump . there be a gigantic and worm like freddy that try to swallow kristen whole and there be a scene where a television turn into freddy and with mechanical arm he pick up one of the patient there for some late night entertainment and punish her for sit too close to the tv and but there be also an unconvincing go motion scene where a couple guy have a fight with freddy krueger skeleton and which have be rot in the trunk of some car in a car junkyard . and one of the more groan inducing scene be one where freddy attack one of the patient in his dream ( the one famous for sleepwalk ) and tear the muscle and tendon out of his arm and leg and lead him around like a puppet . ouch . we get a peek into freddy past in this installment . not only do we meet his mother and but we also find out the circumstance that lead to freddy be father by more than 100 maniac . in fight freddy and the patient all band together and and in their dream and use their special power ( most of which reflect their shortcoming in real life ) to fight him . one student and bound to a wheelchair and be able to walk in his dream and another have the hilarious power of what he call the ` wizard master and another be ` beautiful and bad ( she have lot of makeup and her hair stand up in a foot high mohawk and and she have knife ) . clever and but the movie falter when it have only one of the patient and the one who can not speak and not have any power in his dream until the climax of the movie and when he suddenly realize that he can talk in his dream ( at just the right moment to save the day ) . his dream power be a little too obvious to have be leave out for that long and but collectively and now you see why the movie be subtitle dream warrior . altogether and this be not an entirely weak entry into the series . the acting be pretty shoddy and but it actually pretty good for a horror movie . larry fishburne vastly overshadow the rest of the cast and display wonderful act skill early on in his career and and the movie be not simply a rehash of either of the first two a problem that plague the friday the 13th movie much more than the elm street film . the character be never develop enough to allow for the late creation of much tension and which be why most of the death come across more a creative way to kill off someone in a horror film than the tragic loss of the life of one of the character that we have come to know and root for their triumph over evil . but then again and not a lot of horror movie take the time to really develop their character to the point where you throw up your hand in defeat when they be kill and or be on the edge of your seat a they run for their life . but it important to note that the few horror film that actually do that be almost invariably the best one .