A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Movie • 1987 • Horror
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Patricia Arquette's mother is very verbally and emotionally abusive towards her. Also, Freddy abuses all of the kids.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Not physically but but Kristen's mom is definitely emotionally abusive
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Not deliberately, but the psychiatric staff is trying to convince the teens that Freddy isn't real even though he totally is.
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Nancy's dad.
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Again, sort of. Freddy kills the former addict by injecting her against her will which would probably be very triggering for anyone with a former needle drug problem.
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Is there addiction?
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A former heroine addict is one of the characters. There is also an orderly who tries to talk her into breaking into a medicine supply room to get high who appears to be an addict himself.
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Is there a dead animal?
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No animal corpses /exactly/, though I would still note a scene where Nancy comes across a rotting, cooked pig which comes to life for this category.
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Are there snakes?
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Sort of. Freddy turns into sort of a snake-like creature and tries to eat one of the teens, but there is not a literal snake.
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Are there bugs?
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There is a fly towards the beginning.
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A sexual assault survivor describes being raped more than 100 times and nearly murdered. If this topic is a trigger for you, it's probably pretty triggering.
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Is there pedophilia?
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A minor is seduced by an adult nurse
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Is rape mentioned?
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yes and EXTREMELY graphically. the act is not discribed in detail but it hits you like a ton of bricks.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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A scene where Nancy stabs Freddy in the eye.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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While there is no mutilation, Freddy’s fingers turn into syringes in one scene.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Not onscreen, though references are made to Freddy being burned to death.
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Is there a hanging?
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Several bodies are seen hanging during a dream sequence.
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Is there decapitation?
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while the actual cut isnt shown on screen the head is for 15ish seconds very close up
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Idk if it counts but one of the victims is killed by having her head crushed into the inside of a TV screen
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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A fair amount of cutting/slashing done by Freddy, including the part mentioned by another user where a character's wrist is cut, making it look self-inflicted. There is also a pretty gruesome scene in particular where a patient's arms and legs are sliced open and the tendons used as marionette strings.
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Is someone buried alive?
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SPOILERS (kind of): There is a scene toward the end in which Freddy attempts to bury a character alive, but only ends up shoveling some dirt over him and leaving. The character survives.
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Is there amputation?
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Yes, if you count a decapitated head, but no amputation of limbs that I recall.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A scene where Freddy holds a character by the throat for a bit and the character is clearly gasping and struggling. This does not go on for long enough to kill him.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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There are severe and graphic tendon injuries inflicted on a character but not the Achille's Tendon
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Kristen falls down the stairs while trying to escape from Freddy
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Does someone fall to their death?
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The comment above is true of one scene, but for clarity I would add that there is an earlier scene in which a character very much dies after falling from a high place.
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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There is a scene were an adult nurse seduces a teenage boy (probably around 14 or 15 years old)
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Does a kid die?
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Several teenagers are killed throughout.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Definitely yes.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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I would say no, but there is a scene in which a tricycle is shown melting, which could be related.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Kind of. Freddy keeps one of the teens hostage but he survives.
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Fear
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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The injection marks on the arm turn into pulsating holes.
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Are there ghosts?
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Also the ghost of a nun that appears to a character, and Freddy pretending to be the ghost of a character's family member.
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Are there mannequins?
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no mannequins but handmade marionettes that may trigger a similar type of fear
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Gross
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Is someone eaten?
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someone is nearly swallowed whole by a snake/eel like freddy head
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Does someone spit?
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no, but there is a very small amount of drool from the faces in freddy's chest in the very later half of the movie during one scare.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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It continues the franchise trend of the Springwood Police being very ineffective, and while not necessarily a “bad guy” Nancy’s father is presented as a very flawed person.
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Is there incarceration?
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No, but there's involuntary commitment
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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Freddy kills a girl by turning his finger knives into syringes.
"Let's get high" indeed, Freddy...
"Let's get high" indeed, Freddy...
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Most of the movie takes place in one.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The majority of the movie takes place inside a hospital.
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Mental Health
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A girl is controlled by Freddy and wakes up to her self harming. The wound is shown. This occurs early in the movie.
Quite a few references to self harming during the film.
Quite a few references to self harming during the film.
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Is there misophonia?
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freddy's claws scraping are overwhelmingly loud and high pitched in this one, though i will say it only happens in one scene this time
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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spoilers - while its not on screen, there's a story told about a woman who works at a mental institute is left alone with the patients and repeatedly sexually assaulted by them. the story is very much the standard "violent and dangerous mentally ill people" ableism.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Both Lisa and her father are very clearly shaken up by their experiences from the first film. Additionally, most of the patients have some form of traumatic past.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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There's a scene where the kids are trapped in a room while the walls are closing in on them. They don't get crushed but it might trigger claustrophobia
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Body HORROR is not body DYSMORPHIA. Body dysmorphia, often tied in with disordered eating or working out, centers around intrusive thoughts and distress surrounding a perceived bodily flaw (i.e. size of thighs, stomach, muscle mass, etc.) that is not perceivable by others. Google the definition of things that you don't know. I see this conflated with body horror far too much on this website.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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I'm not sure why people are saying no, people totally freak out and run around screaming a lot whether the threat is in the room with them or not due to the overall terror of the situation. It's not a "panic attack" per say, but the question is anxiety attack and I would say these count.
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No, but there is a lot of suicidal imagery, one of the teens is a suicide survivor, two of the teens' murders are perceived as suicide, and one of the counselors says really messed up and harmfully insulting things about the type of people who try to kill themselves. It's totally triggering as far as suicide goes even though the answer is no.
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Spoiler:
A character dies from jumping off a building because Freddy forced him to. He didn't want to but his death is still ruled as a suicide by the people around him.
A character dies from jumping off a building because Freddy forced him to. He didn't want to but his death is still ruled as a suicide by the people around him.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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YES. There is a metronome with a beam of very bright concentrated light shining at it in the middle, so every time the pendulum swings through it, it flashes very brightly (to hypnotize people). I have strobe sensitivity and had to cover my eyes to get through those scenes. It was very difficult for me.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Does the black guy die first?
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He survives!!!!
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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In addition, I would argue a lot of the behavior of the doctors and orderlies toward the patients is pretty invalidating in a way many will find reminiscent of real-life ableism in mental institutions, whether or not it counts as such within the film itself.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Mind you this later revealed to be a dream/trap by Freddy ,but still a teen boy fantasizes about having intercourse with an older female nurse
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Religious
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Sex
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Is there sexual content?
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A boy and a nurse make out. Her b*****s are shown.
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Are there nude scenes?
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An adult woman is shown completely naked except for a thong
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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I'm not sure why people are saying no. It ends with the funeral of a beloved character, and other characters also die in the finale, as well.
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Vehicular
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Characters are menaced by junkyard cars possessed by Freddy, but are not ultimately hit by them.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Both.
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