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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) KILL COUNT is the forty-ninth video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
One year after the events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, teenager Kristen Parker dreams of Freddy Krueger, who attacks her and makes it look like she has slit her wrist in the real world.
Believing Kristen to be suicidal, her mother Elaine admits her to Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital, where she is placed under the care of Dr. Neil Gordon. At the hospital, Kristen fights the orderlies who try to sedate her because she fears falling asleep. The new intern therapist, Nancy Thompson, calms her down by reciting Freddy's nursery rhyme, helping her realize she is not alone. Nancy meets the rest of Dr. Gordon's patients: Phillip Anderson, a sleepwalker; Roland Kincaid, a tough kid from the streets; Jennifer Caulfield, a hopeful television actress; Will Stanton, who uses a wheelchair due to a prior suicide attempt; Taryn White, a recovering drug addict; and Joey Crusel, who is the youngest and too traumatized to speak. One night, Freddy attacks Kristen in her dreams; she unwittingly pulls Nancy into her dream, allowing them to escape.
Kristen reveals that she has been able to pull people into her dreams since she was young. Over the next two nights, Freddy kills Phillip and Jennifer. Nancy reveals to the remaining patients that they are "the last of the Elm Street kids," the surviving children of those who burned Krueger to death years ago. They try group hypnosis so that they can experience a shared dream and discover their dream powers. In the dream, Freddy captures Joey, leaving him comatose in the real world. The dean is furious, and Nancy and Neil are relieved of their duties. A nun named Sister Mary Helena tells Neil that Freddy was the son of Amanda Krueger, a young woman on the Westin Hills hospital staff who was accidentally locked inside with hundreds of mental patients over the holidays. They raped her continually, causing Freddy to be born. The only way to stop him is to lay his bones to rest.
Neil and Nancy ask her father, Officer Don Thompson, where the bones are hidden. Nancy rushes back to the hospital when she learns that Kristen has been sedated. Neil takes Don to help them find the bones. Nancy and the others again engage in group hypnosis to reunite with Kristen. Taryn and Will are killed by Freddy, while Kristen, Nancy, and Kincaid rescue Joey. Sensing that his remains have been found by Don and Neil, Freddy kills Don and incapacitates Neil. Don's ghost appears to Nancy, but he is revealed to be Freddy, who stabs Nancy. Freddy comes upon Kristen, but Nancy stabs him with his own glove. Neil purifies Freddy's bones, killing him, as Nancy dies in Kristen's arms.
Neil, Kristen, Kincaid, and Joey attend Nancy and Don’s funeral days later. During the funeral, Neil finds Amanda Krueger's tombstone and discovers that she is Sister Mary Helena. That evening, he goes to sleep with the Malaysian doll Nancy gave him and Kristen's papier-mâché house nearby. Suddenly, Kristen's house lights up from the inside, suggesting that Freddy is not defeated.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths[]
- Phillip Anderson - Tendons ripped out; walked off building - 32 mins in
- Jennifer Caulfield - Head smashed through TV - 40 mins in
- Taryn White - Injected w/ lethal overdose of drugs - 1 hr 14 mins in
- Will Stanton - Stabbed in chest w/ fingerknives - 1 hr 16 mins in
- Donald Thompson - Impaled through back w/ metal junk - 1 hr 26 mins in
- Nancy Thompson - Stabbed in gut w/ fingerknives; died later - 1 hr 30 mins in
Non-Counted Deaths[]
- Freddy Krueger - Laid to rest by Neil Gordon
- Amanda Krueger - Revealed to have died some time ago
- Neil Gordon - Possibly killed off-screen at the end by Freddy Krueger
- 22 Floating Corpses - Seen hanged in nightmare
- Little Nightmare Girl - Seen as skeleton
- 2 Elm Street teens - Reported to have committed suicide
- Zsa Zsa Gabor - Slashed right after the TV turned off
Trivia[]
- This is the first 1987 movie covered on the Kill Count.
- This is James' favourite A Nightmare on Elm Street movie.
- This the the first kill count with the "Be Good People" Quote.