“A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors”, I like to think the title is so long because people are forced to have a lengthy conversation about it just by merely saying its name. In some ways, this is a step up from the previous two, if it weren’t for the fact it feels incredibly tired.

Yes, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund “A Nightmare On Elm Street”) is back in “The Dream Warriors and the girl Nancy, who was played by Heather Langenkamp as she reprises her role too in the first film also returns, this time it is to help a bunch of teens that are suffering from the boring killer’s new reign of terror in ‘Slumber Land’.

Freddy is given a few more comedic lines but they still aren’t enough to salvage him from being a dull villain. I should have always been terrified of him or laughing with him but instead I groan at him and this being the third outing, you think they would have got it right by now. Fans may be intrigued by the new background given on Freddy. Nancy is as uninteresting as she was in the first film. For all those who love these movies, they’ll be happy to know there are plenty more bland teens to be sliced and diced.

The death scenes and dreams/nightmares in general are more elaborate than before but there was at least some energy I felt with the first two films that is absent from this one. It feels like simply an excuse to kill off a bunch of teens. I’m still waiting for someone to make the character of Freddy funnier or scarier and I’m still waiting for someone to take this series to make a movie that keeps my attention. All I can say is blood and special effects can’t help a movie that is this hollow.