A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - Plot

Plot

Six years after the horrible events of the first film, a young girl named Kristen Parker is awake late at night, busy at work making a papier-mâché replica of the Elm Street house, until her mother forces her to go to bed. While she is asleep she dreams about a little girl outside of the real Elm Street house (now run-down and abandoned), when both go inside they are attacked by a shadowly figure, and Kristen tries to save the little girl. Only to discover, to her horror, that she has been chased into a room full of children hang by their necks, and that the little girls head has been reduced to a burned skull. When Kristen wakes up from her nightmare, and goes to the bathroom she finds she is still asleep and encounters Freddy Krueger, who slashes her wrists with the razors on his glove. When Kristen awakes, she is holding a razor blade to her wrist. Her mother mistakes this incident as a suicide attempt and places Kristen in Westin Hills, a psychiatric hospital.

While there Kristen meets the other patients of the hospital - Joey Crusel, who does not speak; Taryn White, an ex-drug addict; Roland Kincaid, a tough kid with behavioral problems; Phillip Anderson, a talented sculptor; Jennifer Caulfield, a wannabe actress; Will Stanton, who uses a wheelchair because of an earlier suicide attempt. They are all the "last of the Elm Street children" – the remaining children of the vigilantes who killed Freddy. Kristen also meets Dr. Neil Gordon, a psychiatrist, and Nancy Thompson, the new staff research scientist.

All of the kids are being tormented by Freddy in their dreams. If Freddy kills them in their dream, they die "for real". When Kristen has another terrifying dream where she is attacked by Freddy in the form of a giant snake, she reveals a latent ability to bring others into her dreams by bringing Nancy into the dream to assist her. Nancy sees the potential of Kristen's ability to defeat Freddy for good.

Freddy kills two patients when they fall asleep. He slashes Phillip's feet and wrists and uses his tendons to walk him through the hospital like a marionette. He walks Philip to the top of the building and cuts the tendons, sending Phillip falling to his death as the other patients watch in horror. The next night, while Jennifer watches TV, the host of a talk show turns into Freddy and attacks the guest, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Jennifer walks over to the TV and smacks it. Two large mechanical arms explode out of the sides and pick her up. Freddy's head emerges from the TV and tells her "Welcome to Prime Time Bitch" before smashing her head into the screen.

Meanwhile, Dr. Gordon receives visits from a mysterious nun, who introduces herself as Sister Mary Helena. She tells Dr. Gordon that Freddy Krueger was born in the abandoned wing of the same hospital, Westin Hills, after inmates gang-raped his mother, Amanda Krueger. Amanda Krueger was a staff member who was accidentally locked inside over the Christmas holidays. The nun also says that when he was killed, Freddy Krueger was never properly buried and must be laid to rest in consecrated ground.

Nancy, during an unauthorized group session, finally reveals the truth about the man who is trying to kill them and tells the kids that during their dreams they can be whomever, and possibly do whatever, they want. Nancy also convinces Dr. Gordon to try an experimental drug called Hypnocil, to keep the kids and themselves from dreaming. During the session, Dr. Gordon hypnotizes everyone into a deep sleep and Nancy has Kristen attempt to pull them into her dreams. The attempt does not go as well, at first believing that the session was a failure the group soon discover that they made it into the dream world; with many of the children discovering their own dream power: Kristen's; acrobatic skills, Will's; magical abilities and ability to walk again, Kinciad's; superhuman strength, and Taryn's; image of beauty (a hot biker chick) with switch knives. At the same time Freddy, in the form of a hot nurse, lures Joey away from the group and holds him captive in the dream world, which renders him comatose in the real world. As a result, Dr. Carver fires Neil and Nancy from the hospital.

Nancy goes to see her father, Lt. Donald Thompson. She makes an impassioned plea to him for help which ultimately falls on deaf ears. Neil tells her to go back to the hospital to help the kids while he forces Lt. Thompson to help him find Freddy's remains and bury them. The two men stop at a church to collect holy water and a crucifix.

Back at the hospital, Nancy and the kids attempt a group sleep session to try to go in and free Joey and get to Kristen, who was thrown in the "quiet room" and sedated without her consent. As soon as the kids fall asleep, Freddy separates them. After a brief struggle, he kills Taryn by giving her a drug overdose, and stabs Will in the chest with his bladed glove. Kincaid manages to fight his way through Freddy's barriers, with his super strength, and reunite with Nancy and Kristen. With a little provoking from Kincaid, the three finally find their way to the heart of Freddy's lair, where the three manage to save Joey before Freddy can kill him. Kristen and Kincaid, using their dream powers, both try to fight Freddy, but he easily fends off their attacks, and even picks Kinciad up by his neck with one arm. But before he could do anything else Nancy stabs him thought the stomach with a pipe, unfortunately it doesn't kill him, much to Nancy's shock. Krueger then reveals that he gains strength from imprisoning the souls of his victims inside himself. Just as Freddy is about to kill Kincaid he senses that someone is messing with his corpse and disappears.

Neil and Lt. Thompson having finally found Freddy's remains in a large auto salvage yard. Begin to dig a makeshift grave when they hear noises all around them and the bones come to life. Lt. Thompson, in a fit of rage, attempts to attack the Freddy-skeleton but the skeleton kills him by throwing and impaling him on a car fin. The skeleton then beats Neil with a shovel, leaving him unconscious and wounded inside the makeshift grave.

Still in the group sleep session, the remaining kids and Nancy proceed to make their way through Freddy's lair when they come to a room full of mirrors. Each of the party are grabbed and pulled through the mirrors by Freddy, except for Joey who, unknowingly unleashes his dream power, lets out a piercing scream which shatters the mirrors, freeing them. Nancy notices a bright light from an adjoining room and realizes it is her father. Her father says his spirit has crossed over and wanted to say goodbye to her, and they embrace. Seconds later, Nancy is stabbed twice in the stomach by Freddy, who was disguised as her father. Believing his biggest threat has finally been removed, Freddy closes the door on Kincaid and Joey and proceeds to attack Kristen. Just as he is about to kill her, Nancy attacks him from behind, making Krueger stab himself with his own glove. At the same exact moment, Neil awakens and places his skeleton inside the grave, and sprinkles the holy water on Freddy's remains, Freddy can sense this but is powerless to stop it, thanks to Nancy. He then uses the crucifix and completes the burial, causing Krueger to disappear in a brilliant white light. But Nancy, grievously wounded, dies in Kristen's arms.

At the Thompson's funeral, Neil sees the mysterious nun again. When he goes to thank her, she vanishes. He is left standing by a gravestone. On the stone there is a name, Amanda Krueger; just below that is another name, Sister Mary Helena. He realizes that the nun was the spirit of Freddy's mother. Later that night Neil, asleep in his bed, now has the same house Kristen made at the beginning of the film (now clean and new). When a light suddenly comes on inside the model house, implying Freddy's still alive, which sets up the events of the next film.