10 Reasons Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Is Secretly The Best Freddy Film
10. It Creates A Stand-Alone Canon
This bears mentioning immediately: Nightmare On Elm Street 2 was a not-so-disappointing sequel, but has a general direction to it that makes it the red-headed stepchild of the series. This will be the last you hear of it in this article. This sequel ends up falling to the wayside because Part 3 came along and formed a strong bridge back to the original with the return of Nancy Thompson. Instead of Freddy vs. New Person, we got a call-back to the movie that really set the horror genre on fire. This concept of returning characters became the norm for the series from then on, but it would never again be pulled off with any kind of skill. Couple this fact with the way Part 3 ended, and you have every reason in the world to pretend that the titular nightmare was truly over as of then. Basically, the most satisfying way to view the series is simply as Freddy vs. Nancy. What about New Nightmare, you say? Fair enough; toss it in there and you have the Craven meta-trilogy. Whichever way you slice it, Heather Langenkamp is just as important to any Freddy flick as Robert Englund, and Dream Warriors was where she became his true nemesis.
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