A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is a 1987 slasher film horror fantasy and the third film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The film was directed by Chuck Russell written by original creator Wes Craven and co-written by Bruce Wagner and starred Heather Langenkamp, Craig Wasson, Robert Englund and Patricia Arquette in her first role. Six years after the events of the first film, Kristen Parker makes a replica of a house on Elm Street. While she is asleep she dreams about a little girl outside the house. When Kristen wakes up 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. Kristen meets the other patients of the hospital- Joey Peterson, 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.
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