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Released
1987 · FILM

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

A determined psychiatrist teams up with a gifted teen to enter the nightmare realm and stop a murderous dream demon from killing vulnerable patients, risking their own sanity in a battle where dreaming means dying.

“If you think you'll get out alive, you must be dreaming.”

Directed by
Chuck Russell, Dennis Maguire
Written by
Wes Craven, Bruce Wagner
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
96 min
FantasyHorror
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A psychiatrist familiar with the knife‑wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 200+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Terry StokesShot by Roy H WagnerScored by Angelo BadalamentiSound by David Lewis YewdallStunts by Rick BarkerVFX by Hoyt Yeatman

Box Office

1987 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 10× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$44.8M

Budget$4.5M
Worldwide gross$44.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $8.9M — 20% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $11.4M — 25% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,343 theaters

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Also known as

  • Nightmare 3 - Freddy lebt!de
  • Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Freddy Krueger lebtde
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriorsen
  • Les Griffes du cauchemarfr
  • Nightmare III: I guerrieri del sognoit

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