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) into "[Freddy] as a person [and] how he became the thing he was". Bayer expressed that unlike the "Friday the 13th" remake that picked the best parts from the first four films, the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" remake was coming straight from the first film. For the remake, Freddy was brought back to his darker roots and away from the comical character he had become in later "A Nightmare on Elm Street" sequels. Fuller pointed out that this Freddy did have one-liners but they come from a darker sense of humor and were not intended to be as campy