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 (franchise) "A Nightmare on Elm Street" with the other top-grossing horror series—"Child's Play", "Friday the 13th", "Halloween", the Hannibal Lecter series, "Psycho", "Saw", "Scream", and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"—and adjusting for the 2010 inflation, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is the third highest grossing horror series, in the United States, at approximately $583.4 million. The series is topped by "Friday the 13th" at $671.5 million. Closely following "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is the Hannibal Lecter series with $579.4 million, then "Halloween" with $547.8 million, "Saw" with $404.5 million, "Scream" with $398.3 million, "Psycho" with $370.3 million, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"