Among the best horror sequels ever made, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors serves up a perfect balance of horror (due to the twisted and surreal imaginativeness of its dream sequences) and humor (due to actor Robert England legendarily ad-libbing one-liners as one of cinema’s most famous villains, homicidal dream manifestation Freddy Krueger). Expanding on the original Nightmare mythos from the first film, Dream Warriors sees the return of Heather Lagenkamp and John Saxon, as well as Wes Craven himself, whose original story was the impetus creatively for this threequel.  Horror fan and Oscar winner Patricia Arquette makes her cinematic debut here as Kristen, a troubled young woman who is thrown into a shady psychiatric hospital where she meets a variety of intriguingly disturbed young teenagers who all share her predicament: Freddy Krueger is stalking them in their dreams. Hope arrives in the form of new therapist Nancy Thompson (Final Girl from Nightmare #1), who may hold the key to survival for the motley crew. What follows is a feast of striking visuals, achieved through outstanding practical effects including animatronics, stop-motion, elaborate prosthetics, etc. Watch as Freddy impressively transforms himself into a grotesque gargantuan snake, a robotic television monster, a giant puppet master, a sadistic pin-up-style nurse, even a Ray Harryhausen-style living skeleton.