A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is a 1987 American slasher film directed by Chuck Russell. It is the third installment in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series. The film was written by original creator Wes Craven and stars Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Larry Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, and Robert Englund. The plot focuses on Freddy Krueger seeking to murder the last children of the parents that burned him to death. The kids are committed into a mental hospital. Freddy does not know that Nancy Thompson is training the
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film) Street" is second in opening-weekend gross behind "Friday the 13th" with $40,570,365. The film sits ahead of the other Platinum Dunes remakes, which includes "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" ($28,094,014), "The Amityville Horror" ($23,507,007), and "The Hitcher" ($7,818,239). As of 2018, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is number nineteen on the list of top opening weekends for the month of April. In 2018, the remake is ninth in slasher films and eighth in horror remakes for all-time-highest-grossing films (unadjusted dollars). When comparing its opening weekends to other slasher films and horror remakes, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" sits in fifth spots