Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger is alive

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Movie
German title Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger is alive
Original title A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Chuck Russell
script Wes Craven
Bruce Wagner
Frank Darabont
Chuck Russell
production Robert Shaye
music Angelo Badalamenti
camera Roy H. Wagner
cut Terry Stokes
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Nightmare II - The Revenge

Successor  →
Nightmare on Elm Street 4

Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger Lives is a horror film from 1987 and the third part in the Nightmare series.

After the moderate success of the second part, Wes Craven took back control of the script and wrote a story that takes place six years after the first part. The film was released in 1987 and was the first in the series to contain black humor .

action

Nancy Thompson returns to Springwood as a grown woman six years after the events at 1428 Elm Street (see Nightmare ) to work in an asylum for difficult-to-train and suicidal youth.

She realizes with horror that the young people there dream of Freddy Krueger and are terrorized by him. Nancy tries an idiosyncratic method: she uses group hypnosis to induce collective dreams. To do this, she uses Kristen's psychic ability, which other people can bring into their dreams. The young people can now take action against Krueger together.

While Nancy and the youngsters fight Krueger in their shared dream, the doctor Neil Gordon tries to find the remains of the insane child murderer in order to bury them in consecrated earth and thus to wipe Krueger forever. The doctor received this tip from a mysterious nun whom only he can see.

Finally, with the help of Nancy's father, Lt. Donald Thompson burying Krueger. Lt. Thompson dies in the process and the doctor can no longer prevent Nancy from being killed while trying to protect Kristen. At Nancy's funeral, Dr. Gordon found out who the mysterious nun who helped him was: Freddy Krueger's mother Amanda.

reception

criticism

The lexicon of international films described the film as a "technically perfect horror film with speculative shock effects that strains the audience's nerves."

Awards

The film was nominated in three categories for the Saturn Award in 1988 , including a. as best horror film. In the same year director Russell received the Critics' Award - Special Mention on Fantasporto .

Gross profit

The film grossed around 45 million US dollars in North America.

background

  • Wes Craven laid out the plot regardless of the previous content of Part 2. The film Nightmare II, released two years earlier, is simply ignored and becomes a kind of interim episode.
  • Before the start of the film there is a preceding quote in red, which the horror film ascribes to the poet Edgar Allan Poe, who is famous for his horror literature : Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them. (in German: "Sleep. You little pieces of death. How I hate them.")
  • The first idea of ​​the film was to create the third part as a prequel and show Freddy's life story as a child murderer up to the moment when he is burned by the parents of the murdered children. The producer Robert Shaye didn't like this idea as it didn't fit into the franchise endeavors. Therefore, the film crew decided on Wes Craven's second idea, according to which Freddy's opponents themselves become more powerful.
  • In the third Nightmare film, the voice actor Tommi Piper speaks the German-speaking voice of Freddy Krueger. In Germany, Tommi Piper became very popular in 1988 as the sonorous, bassy voice of the extraterrestrial Alf in the television series of the same name.
  • In 1996 Wes Craven made Drew Barrymore in the movie Scream! say they Nightmare on Elm Street scary ( scary ) find - but the rest was bad ( Well the first one which But the rest sucked.. ).
  • In the third part of the Nightmare series, the viewer learns the origin of the terrifying figure Freddy Krueger : According to this, like a mysterious nun in white costume, played by actress Nan Martin , the doctor Dr. Neil Gordon tells that Freddy Krueger is the illegitimate child of a nurse who was conceived by mass rape when the nurse fell into the hands of insane inmates of the mental hospital in the seclusion of a tower in a separate wing. Gordon currently practices. Only at the end of the film does the identity of the mysterious nun in white become clear: She is the restless ghost of Amanda Krueger - the mother of the burned child murderer Fred Krueger, who lived under the name of Sister Mary Helena from 1907 to 1968. This is what the doctor, Dr. Gordon by a tombstone in the town cemetery at the end of the film.
  • The pub called Little Nemos , where Nancy Thompson and Dr. Neil Gordon visits her father, is a reference to Winsor McCay's early 20th century comic series Little Nemo in Slumberland (German: The Little Nemo in Schlummerland ), which is about a little boy who experiences unusual adventures in his dreams .
  • In a supporting role as a nurse in the institution you see Laurence "Larry" Fishburne , who later celebrated great success with actor Keanu Reeves from 1999 with the three-part movie Matrix .
  • Nancy's mother Marge Thompson was presumably - contrary to the statements from Nightmare II - killed by Krueger. In a conversation with Neal, Nancy clearly stated that her mother died "in her sleep". This contradicts Jesse Walsh's statement in Part 2, which stated that Marge Thompson committed suicide.
  • Both the song called Into The Fire , which runs on the radio in Kristen Parker's youth room after the opening credits, and the ending credits song, Dream Warriors , were written by the hard rock band Dokken . "Dream Warriors" was released in July 1987 on the Dokken album Back for the Attack . There is a video clip for the song in which the rock band plays alongside actor Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger and actress Patricia Arquette in her role as Kristen Parker .
  • Shortly before Taryn is killed by Freddy, she walks down a dirty side street. Suddenly a man comes up to her wearing a felt hat and a long coat. When he gets closer, however, it turns out that this is not Freddy, but a homeless man who walks past Taryn uninvolved. When he was a child, Wes Craven was pretty scared of a homeless man who looked like that. This later served him as a template for Freddy's appearance, among other things.
  • On January 21, 2008, the original version of the film was re-examined by the FSK and was given an age rating of 16 and over instead of its original rating of 18. Its indexing had also previously been lifted. While the film was indexed, two FSK-16 versions shortened by around one and a half minutes were made for free TV and for publication on video cassette. However, all German versions so far have been affected by two audio censors.
  • In the German version the name of the doctor Gordon was mistakenly dubbed Goodman .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger is alive . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2008 (PDF; test number: 59 082-a DVD).
  2. ↑ Nightmare III - Freddy Krueger is alive. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093629/awards?ref_=tt_ql_op_1
  4. ↑ A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Nightmare 3 - Now unabridged from the age of 16 schnittberichte.com from January 31, 2008 (accessed on August 6, 2011)
  6. ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=2888
  7. ↑ a b http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=215604