A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Theatrical release poster by Matthew Peak
Directed byChuck Russell
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Wes Craven
  • Bruce Wagner
Based onCharacters
by Wes Craven
Produced byRobert Shaye
Wes Craven
Starring
CinematographyRoy H. Wagner
Edited by
  • Terry Stokes
  • Chuck Weiss
Music byAngelo Badalamenti
Production
companies
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release date
  • February 27, 1987 (1987-02-27) (United States)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4.3–4.6 million[1][2]
Box office$44.8 million (US)[3]

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is a 1987 American fantasy slasher film[4] directed by Chuck Russell in his feature directorial debut. The story was developed by Wes Craven and Bruce Wagner and is the third installment in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and stars Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Larry Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.[5] Nancy Thompson, now a psychiatrist, and Kristen, a patient who can bring others into her own dreams, team up with other kids to launch a daring rescue into the dreamland and save a child from Freddy Krueger.

Dream Warriors was theatrically released on February 27, 1987, and grossed $44.8 million domestically on a budget of over $4 million. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and is considered by many to be one of the best films in the Elm Street series.

The film was preceded by A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) and followed by A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988).

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  2. ^ A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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