10 Best Number 3s In Horror Movie History
1. A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
After missing out on the second Nightmare on Elm Street movie, series creator Wes Craven was back for the third instalment and it shows.
Dream Warriors is set in a mental hospital (a great setting for any horror) and follows the exploits of a group of children as Freddy Krueger hunts them down in their dreams.
The kids, aided by original protagonist Nancy Thompson, have to then track down Krueger's bones in order to lay his spirit to rest and end his killing spree.
The third Elm Street movie is often regarded as one of the best in the entire series and with good reason. It takes the series in a new direction, giving Freddy multiple adversaries instead of one. The kills are inventive, the characters are likeable, and this film is also very, very funny.
Humour is an underrated part of horror - strange considering how inherently silly the genre is - but the laughs, both accidentally and on purpose, are present through this film.
Later Elm Street movies would go off the deep end, but this one manages to capture the spirit of the original whilst giving its own, often side-splitting twist.