The last of the Elm Street kids are in a psychiatric hospital. Good visuals, but the story is fragments of ideas put together. The eeriness of the original is gone.

As this instalment opens teenager Kristen Parker is making a papier-mâché model of a house; the house that featured in the first two films. When she sleeps she finds herself in the house where she is chased by Freddy Krueger. She flees to her own bathroom where Krueger attacks her. Her mother finds her with bleeding wrists and a razor blade in her hand. Her mother has her committed to the Westin Hospital. Here it becomes apparent that she isn't the only teenager who is there who has been plagued by nightmares. The staff believe that the nightmares are a way of projecting their own guilt; the fact that the dreams are so similar don't seem to concern them. A new member of staff does believe them though; Nancy Thompson the girl who faced Krueger in the first film has grown up and become an intern therapist at the hospital. She learns that Kristen has the power to pull people into her dreams a power that she will attempt to use to help the teens battle Freddy. Meanwhile Nancy persuades Dr Neil Gordon to try some experimental treatment. He also has a run in with a nun who tells him the story of Freddy's origin and states that if he is to be ultimately defeated his remains must be buried in hallowed ground.This is a pretty good sequel, which is closer to the original than the previous sequel; once again Freddy's attacks take place in the world of dreams and Nancy is the protagonist once more. These dream sequences feature some highly inventive and well executed special effects; they also provide some decent scares. The story is interesting and the setting adds to the feeling of oppression. The cast does a solid job and includes some well-known actors including Patricia Arquette as Kristen and Laurence Fishburne in a relatively minor role. Even though it was only a small part of the overall story I liked the fact that we learnt more about Freddy Krueger's origins. There are a few surprises, most notably at the conclusion. Overall this was a good addition to the franchise; if you thought about dropping the series after Part Two but enjoyed the first film I recommend giving this a go as it is much closer to the original.

I didn't watch these movies as a kid when all my friends were. Even though I had never seen it before, watching NES III gave me a nostalgic feeling. The look and feel are so EIGHTIES that it's almost like watching back something I'd forgotten I had seen. That said, I thought the movie was way more complicated than it needed to be. Freddy became an icon, and part of it was because he started using sarcastic one liners beginning with this film. But even though it was a success at the time, I disagree with everyone who found this a satisfying sequel. Not being a fan of "kills," or Freddy in general, I was looking more for a well told story. The movie built fairly well, but the final sequences were over complicated. It tried to pack too many twists and revelations into the ending, so that it just became a mess. I'm also deducting points because of how some of the characters end up--I wanted it to turn out differently. And it should have--the narrative was heading in the right the direction, but then changed focus in a way that made me loose interest. 6/10.

Part 2 sorta strayed away from the original story to a degree and this 3rd film seems to put the story back to the original concept of the 1st film... That Freddy's a literal nightmare in your dreams!! A nightmare that can literally kill you in your sleep.Nancy's back in this film, she was the sole surviving teen in the 1st film, she's back now as dream therapist and is trying to help the kids through the horror of Freddy Krueger! Somehow these kids are special, they tend to all have special abilities in their dreams which will help somewhat against Krueger but not completely - it will take Nancy's father to revel were the bones of Krueger are in order to bury them in hallowed ground. There is also a mysterious nun who knows all to much about Krueger and his mother's past.Fun film! Recommended to fans of the 1980s horror! 8.5/10