A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is a Fan Favorite - Talking About Tapes 

Dream Warriors is like the Avengers of 80’s slashers, a group of likable and remarkable people, with incredible powers, team up to fight an all powerful villain with an all powerful glove lol

RIP, Ray Stevenson, MARVEL actor in the THOR movies and THE PUNISHER WAR ZONE, passed away today at age 58.😔

An overlooked detail is that Nancy's dad isn't a cop anymore. He's wearing a uniform but it says "Security". He's at rock bottom.

The Never Sleep Again documentary is fantastic. 4 hours goes by very quickly with that doc

Casey and Jess are SUCH great guests. Casey really knows her horror movies and Jess is such a fine addition always. Great episode, guys!

I still think the first 2 are more interesting as films on their own, but this does everything right as a sequel in a slasher franchise. More creative kills/set pieces, more boobs, a clever worthwhile expansion of the killers mythology, and a continuation of a previous final girl’s character arc.

This and Nightmare 4 were the ones that made me a Freddy Krueger fan. The characters were great, the kills were creative, and Freddy was fantastic.

I love the Dokken story when they were makin the Dream Warriors music video. There’s a scene where George Lynch breaks through a wall and busts out a kick ass solo, but he was so coked out of his mind that he couldn’t burst through the break away wall. Apparently Robert Englund had to like throw George through the damn wall and film the scene. Also they were cutting coke with Freddy’s gloves.

Does anyone else have a nightmare that involves being in school again? It’s either I find out I had a class I wasn’t attending to, that I forgot I had, or I’m just failing all together. Lol it’s so strange. But I get those once in a while.

"Take 'em to dinner, bitch!" -- Freddy Krueger

I met Robert Englund at a con once. One of the nicest guys I ever had the pleasure talking to. Really loves his fans.

Hell yes!!! I'm excited to watch this episode! I have been waiting for more ANOES since you did part 1!!!

Bro did you say doh-ken? It's dokken don't disrespect one of the best rock bands of all time like that

Those dreams about being back in school, I don't think they ever stop. I'm 44, and still have dreams about being in high school and missing a test, not being able to find the classroom, or not having my homework. Sometimes the dreams will take place in college or graduate school, but with the same basic idea.

They didn't indicate that the kid who sliced his eyelids off died, but rather that he was relocated to an asylum.

My absolute favorite Nightmare by far. The pysch ward idea is so well done. Incredible kills, memorable scenes. I remember seeing the vhs box in rental stores with snake freddy and was so intrigued. Great review !!

Casey, Jess, AND Space Cat???? What a cast this week!!

Great review! Casey and Jess are awesome, and Tony is awesome just for mentioning his love for Freddy's Dead. Hell yeah!

This one was always my favorite of the franchise! I always remember loving the tv kill! Also it's great to see Casey and Jess in the store! Plus Space Cat!!

Incredible, arguably the best of it's series and belongs in a horror time capsule.

I thought for many years that this was the second greatest Nightmare film but the second film has surpassed that now for me. They should never have killed Nancy’s father in this film

Update: I did a commentary track for Nightmare on Elm Street 2 on patreon www.patreon.com/posts/nightmare-on-elm-83408692 If you're wondering why skipped 2 it's because I did a solo review for it AND interviewed the director at the end of another episode. You can find those below: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MQ5RdwHXs4c.html hackthemovies.com/wishmaster-2-is-crazy-bonus-director-interview-talking-about-tapes-22/

Your cat is very cute Tony, very fluffy 10/10, would try to pet

That product placement tho - Uncle Tony is making the big bucks now.

Tony looks like a big, strong Italian man, but i think that Mint Salad could whoop him in a fight. 🤣

Awesome review as always 😀 BTW: Snake-Freddy is in it's correct color in FvJ. It's only green in Nightmare 3 because the studio said it looks too much like a D!ck, so it was color-corrected to green 🙂

54:04 I never noticed this until later, John Saxon has security guard patches on his uniform, and I've never seen it pointed out on RU-vid. It's probably hard to see in the original copies of the film but in remastered ones you can see it.

Just watching some old rental review I think ya should do the three stooges movie

"That guy" interviewing Zsa Zsa is Dick Cavett. He is pretty famous himself (having famous interviews with John Lennon et al) and was considered Carson's main competition for quite a while.

46mg How much caffeine is in Diet Coke? People are often surprised when they learn that the amount of caffeine in Coke or Diet Coke is much less than in the same-sized coffee. Coke's caffeine content is 34mg for a 12-oz can, and Diet Coke caffeine content is 46mg. That's three to four times less than coffee!

Everyone losing their minds over Space Cat. An instant fan favorite. Is Space Cat the new Mint Salad?

Casey, Jess, Tony, and Space Cat are the real Dream Warriors. Sadly, we're missing The Dream Master Crystal.

i still love Elm Street 3 ever since i saw a sneak preview making of special on HBO back in the day. That and the death of Nancy was the saddest thing ever in horror movie history. Kristen holding Nancy in her arms and trying to promise to dream Nancy in a beautiful dream

Great movie. Can't wait to hear y'all's review and learn some new trivia about my favorite nightmare movie

10/10 for space cat, who at this point is much more famous than Tony.

All the 'females' have betrayed Tony. Johanna betrayed his love, Crystal betrayed his eyes and Trisha betrayed him by being fully Italian. Poor Tony.

Dokken is pronounced like dock-in

The marionette scene is so good

My friends and I met Robert back in 2016, we had a blonde mannequin head that he snatched from my hand, just before we had our picture taken he held "Where's the Bourbon, B*tch?!" Then the next day he signed the Picture with that quote, didn't have to pay for the autograph

Whenever I rewatch elm street flicks, i usually just watch the Nancy Thompson trilogy(ANOES,Dream Warriors &New Nightmare). Plus can't go wrong with those 2 Dokken songs 🤘🤘

And maybe Dr. Gordon might not have made much progress with Nancy, but he does still get a kiss from her, so he's got that going for him. Until she dies, of course. "What a rush" was also a line reused by Hawk of The Road Warriors/Legion of Doom tag team. You can even hear him say the line at the beginning of their WWF theme song from the early 90s.

I'm a Pepsi person too, Casey.

Is this going to be a Tony from Hack the Movies GB Afterlife bait and switch? A cheerful title followed by a seething , hangry dissection of a fan favorite? I guess we'll just have to tune in to find out!

I remember hearing that since Wes Craven wanted this film to be the last, it wasn’t supposed to be Freddy turning on the model house light at the end. It was supposed to be Nancy watching over Neil. End the trilogy of films on a high note. It makes sense since Kristen used her power to dream her into a wonderous place as she died and the light comes from Nancy’s room.

Nice. I yell "Fooled You" in the Dark Helmet voice every time I watch that dad fake out

How have I not seen this channel before?! This is a great channel!

The skeleton isn't bad , especially for the second best elm street flick

YES, Nancy's REALLY Dr. Loomis now;) I always loved that it was her love for her dad that Freddy used against her, she was totally willing to die to protect the others, and of course the moment Freddy saw her again--"YOU..."!! But of COURSE it isn't HER having the new gift to pull people into her dreams and seeing Amanda...as she SHOULD have for CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT:/ Okay, then for 'Freddy's Revenge' and 'New Nightmare' until and unless they get new reviews here: FREDDY'S REVENGE: The look, music, dream imagery, and Freddy acting like a poltergeist really are creative, but they're totally in vain because it's not happening to Nancy! Including Jesse's Nike Air sneakers, Levi's, white-T-shirt, and grey sweatshirt...they belong on HER;) NEW NIGHTMARE: This time Nancy's getting her Karen Barclay on! Wes was mixing 'Child's Play', 'Poltergeist', and 'Amityville Horror' big time:):) When John Saxon turns around and is dressed as Don Thompson is so great...but MAN, HEATHER should've been the one everyone was thinking was going crazy while he and Robert were worrying about her until Wes says they ALL have to become their characters one last time;)

Ah yes…Mariska Hart-o-gay & Larry Fish-born 😂

3 and 4 are the best sequels to me. I always mix up the two in my head, due to my tradition of spanning all the horror classic series' over the 31 days of October. However, whichever one has the comic book artist get sliced and the snobby beauty queen getting fed herself... THAT'S my favorite Elm St. sequel.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 definitely deserves a video as well.

7:43 I legit was not prepared for how adorable that little… whatever it was… that Space Cat made was lol.

i had a freddy dream once too. a long time ago. in the dream i was at some gas station in the middle of nowhere. it was night, of course. i asked to use the phone in the office. i went into the office and closed the door. picked up the phone. made a joke about freddy mouth coming out of the phone. laughed a little and said, "that would be scary if i were dreaming." then got a really really cold feeling of realization... and i could just feel him outside the doors and windows. i was like "NOPE". and woke up.

Totally simping for Casey and Jess

Even though he gets the main credit, most of the music in "Dream Warriors" was not composed by Angelo Badalamenti. Most of what's heard in the movie was composed by Ken Harrison, who is credited in the end titles. This goes a long way to explain why Badalamenti absolutely refused to discuss this movie. And frankly, I've heard Badalamenti's full unused score for the movie-- it isn't very good. What's in the movie works a lot better. Elaine's date-- "Elaine, where do ya keep the bourbon?"... that's Robert Englund's real voice. While you guys may not have thought Nancy and Neil were an item in the film, in the script Wes Craven wrote, they were in fact together and do fuck at one point. There's a lot of stuff in Frank Darabount and Chuck Russell's script (that they made the film from) that has stuff that came from Wes' script but doesn't really pan out in their iteration. Freddy doesn't say "bitch" at all in the first or second movie. This is its debut. He doesn't swear in the first movie but he drops an f-bomb in the second movie. They didn't use the Nurse-Freddy thing because it "looked weird." They didn't use it because it was just too damned disturbing seeing Freddy's face on a beautiful chick's body. There are pictures of her with the makeup on and if you just look at the face, you can't tell it's not Robert Englund. But they just found it too upsetting, so they used what's in the movie now. Regarding the TV series-- it's not the same Freddy from the movies. The TV series and the movies are irreconcilable with one another (the TV series says Freddy was 18 in 1970. In the movies, by 1970, Freddy was either already dead or was expecting the birth of his daughter, depending on when you think Freddy died--1968 or 1974). There are four different Freddy Krueger characters: Movie Freddy (Nightmare 1-6 and Freddy vs. Jason), TV Freddy (Freddy's Nightmares), Fake Demon Freddy (New Nightmare), and Remake Freddy. Freddy's voice is all over the place because there was no time for real post-production in the movie. They finished shooting the movie in late January of 1987 and it opened on February 27th, 1987. So they just didn't have time to go in and change every single piece of Englund's dialogue. What you're calling "Voice 2," that's the real voice Englund uses when he plays Freddy live while shooting. What you're calling "Voice 1" is how it sounds after they tamper with it in post-production to make it more demonic and scary. But there just wasn't time enough to hit it all because of the brief turnaround from finishing shooting to theatrical release. The focus on Christianity in "Dream Warriors" is there because Chuck Russell is Catholic, and he co-wrote the movie. Don Thompson, sadly, is no longer a lieutenant (he was never sheriff). If you look carefully at his shoulder patches, you'll see he's now a security guard. Elaine comes back in Nightmare 4 presumably because she was killed in Kristen's dream, not her own dream (and Kristen is dreaming of her mom, not pulling her into her dream). No, Taryn's exploding head just plain didn't work. They figured it out; the prop just didn't work right. I have some behind the scenes shot-on-set footage and in it, they get the take ready and then the fake head's eyes just splat white and that's all it does. Whoever's shooting the footage pulls the camera back and you can see Englund walking off, shaking his head in dismay. Nightmare 3 was NOT a big-budget Hollywood movie. It was an independent film made for 4.5 million dollars. New Line Cinema wouldn't become a "Hollywood studio" until around the early-to-mid-90s. They were still independent at this point and they kept making these movies because it's all they had. It's not fair to compare the stop-motion here to the stop motion in "Jason and the Argonauts." Ray Harryhausen had like 2 years to make that film. The effects guys here had like 2 months. And yes, it is, what's called rotoscoped. They rear projected the model one frame at a time against the live film. When they shot the scenes live, they DID have Robert Englund performing the Freddy skeleton's actions, though. And no, "The Terminator" had a bigger budget than this movie with 6.4 million. And "Robocop's" budget was 13.7 million. As mentioned above, Nightmare 3's budget was 4.5 million (according to producer Rachel Talalay). And the Freddy skeleton don't groan at the end of that scene--he's laughing. It is NOT a team effort that kills Freddy in the movie. Freddy is solely killed by a sucker punch from the real world. Nothing that was happening to Freddy in the dream was effective at all. Nancy stabbing Freddy with his glove was nothing but an annoyance (it meant something in the script Wes wrote, but in Darabount/Russell's script, it's just a carryover with no significance). At any rate, the movie winds up undermining its whole damn point! It is definitely meant to be Freddy in the last scene. Listen and you'll hear a miniature-ized version of his knives scraping against metal from within. The girl killed by Freddy's kiss is Nightmare 4, not 5. It's not really right to say "Wes wrote this one." He wrote a draft of it and that draft was rejected (and rightfully so; it's just awful and all over the place). Frank Darabount and Chuck Russell wrote this movie. All Wes and his writer came up with was the core idea of a group of kids ganging up on Freddy. I love "Freddy's Dead" too cause I like to have fun and any time anyone badmouths that movie, all I hear from them is "I hate fun."

This podcast was just really funny. When I saw the TV kill I was saying, how the hell was it a suicide as well

There's reports there might be a Scream 7 so Tony doesn't have to take the girls to a steakhouse.

"who wants a house out in hackensack, is that all you get for your money" is the rest of that billy joel lyric. I know this because i was rased in hackesack, and it was all I used to hear growing up

Spacecat cameo steals the show, top notch meow 🎉

Take Johanna and crystal to dinner

Fantastic episode all around. Bonus points for a Space Cat cameo.

if you think about it, nancy got tricked by freddy twice. "i don't believe in you anymore..." *everything happy and bright* freddy going "SYKE! I'M THE CAR!" and then in this one with the dad bit.

Space cat. The show has now peaked.

Tony keeps calling him Fish(Born).

I recently watched all the Nightmare movies (except FvJ and remake), having only seen the 1st and 2nd, and they absolutely peaked with this one. Dream Warriors was fun and would've been a great send off.

i studied dream psychology and theory for a really long time. there is this thing called "a group psychosis" in group counseling. where patients share delusions. in this case, dreams. people who got together and talked about their dreams regularly started to share the same dreams. it's pretty interesting.

Dinner,Dinner, Dinner, Dinner, Dinner!!!!!!!

That cat sound was hilarious.....like an old lady cat!!!😂

24:56 Shows 3 things 1 Jess' age 2 Casey COMPLETE RESTRAINT FROM CORRECTING SOMEONE WHILE THEY MAKE A FAUX-PA And 3 Tonys ability to simultaneously listen to, answer a question from, and assess the faces of his guest all in a matter of seconds It is complete gold Sorry Jess I love ya but that was rough 😅

I'm glad so many people love the Blob remake. I haven't seen it in at least 25 years, but I saw it in the theater when I was 13'ish and I loved it. Then HBO showed it for like the next Summer, but then I feel like it just kinda got forgotten. I remember loving it in the theater, and then I watched it several times on HBO. It does everything good horror movies should do, starting with the setting: a small American town. Tremors did this, making the town even smaller and more secluded. Arachnophobia went even further with a house in the middle of the country.

So happy to hear you’re still going to do the F13 remake. Space Cat gets it.

Do you know how thick the glass on an old CRT TV is?! If it was an attempted suicide it would be a running start, jump, *THUNK*, and Larry finding her heavily concussed and bleeding on the floor.

Tony from Hack the movies.. despite what we the home audience saw, Freddy never came into the real world and killed a bunch of kids at a pool party, Jesse Walsh went nuts, put on a Freddy glove and killed a bunch of classmates at a pool party

You had it right the 1st time. Remember Sister Act II : Back in the HABIT? There you go.

Im excited I actually got to see the wish master two review with the director. Cuz the whole wishmaster is a favorite of mine and this movie , new nightmare and freddy's dead are my three favorite elm street films

I used to have dreams of being in high school again, and realizing there was a whole class i was not attending for like months, and now i was having to take a final and had no idea what the class was all about. I was like 34 when i was having those dreams, and i would wake up like WTF.

My mom got me a legit Freddy mask & glove in the late 80s. I took it & the bourbon to my Catholic school for Halloween When Nancy returns to the hospital Taryn says "Where have you been, we've been going crazy" Nancy replies "Theres no time for that" Its such an Airplane! moment😂

I had a Freddy dream too, but his claws were like how wolverines used to be not the adamantium ones the bone ones and Freddy like was able to shoot them and it went into my back and I woke up

I had a freddy dream. An earthquake happened and i fell in a big crack that opened up in ground and I got wedged upside down in the crevasse and then the two sides if the rocks i was stuck between ,turned into his hands and he crushed me.

FREDDYS DEADS RULES FIGHT ME

it'd be funny if in the bar scene, once dad and neil leave on their "adventure", barstow was like "pff... again?"

when neil tells nancy about what the nun told him, does anyone else feel like she get's annoyed that the nun knew more than she did?

3 is the best sequel, but it is NOT my favorite sequel (those are two different things). My favorite sequel is Elm Street 4

It’s the best nightmare not just the best sequel.

Mummy Cop season 3!

When i think of Larry Fishburne, i think of Peewee Herman. I don't even think about Freddy Krueger.

I love this movie and soundtrack! Er, maybe I did back in the day? (Haven't watched, or listened to, this since it came out. I could me wrong...)

Maybe I'm in the minority, but i still think nightmare 2 deserves an in the round, open panel discussion. 🤷🏻‍♂️

HELL YEAH definitely my #1 Favorite Film in the ELM STREET Franchise 😃🤘☠️

You mentioned the second death for her being in the TV, but I think the first one was just as bad really. I believe somewhere they mention the setup and that the doors are locked, but he just phases through the door to get to the tower to jump off. It should be impossible without some major mistakes happening on the staffs part for it to happen. I never really thought much about the skeleton, I don't think all that much was probably put into it, but since he wasn't strong yet from a lack of fear initially, the skeleton was already in a spot where he couldn't get out I guess? That'd be kind of a fun scene of him trying for the first time, getting nowhere. Otherwise, it kind of comes down to, "How does Freddy know he can inhabit his bones?", which then leads into simply moving if he could escape, so he couldn't be killed.

I think Space cats thoughts on the movie are purrr-fict!!

I can't tell you where the wheelchair is at now. But I do know I seen it in planet Nashville in like 97. They had Jason's suit and mask from Jason goes to hell as well.

Actor Rodney Eastman who plays JOEY actually passed out because of the way they filmed him tongue tied to the Bed which was actually built with him having to stand-up with his arms raised & Legs spread apart for a Long Time,,,Also Actor Ken Sagoes who plays KINCAID actually got the part by Cursing out the Casting Director because Ken Sagoes had to catch several Buses in the Rain to the Audition,,,it's all revealed in the Documentary NEVER SLEEP AGAIN

Eyelids have WAAAAAAAAYYYYY too much blood in them. Don't ask me how I know that, lols.

This was the first Nightmare film I saw. Seen it at the theatre and after rented the first two.

Lord Jesus does NOT approve that Mint Salad wrestling suit!

There’s also a Nightmare fan doc called FREDHEADS! All about the fandom and fan culture of the franchise.

ANOES : 3 is by far the best sequel to the original. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is #2 and the most misunderstood movie in the series. Dream Master had the best soundtrack ever…

Dream Warriors, True Romance, Lost Highway, After Hours, Crash, Pulp Fiction, Scream. I love Arquette movies.

Nightmare on Elm Street 3 was the first R rated movie I ever saw in theaters. Loved the movie and the ending song from Dokken.