A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Continuity mistake: During the opening credits, in some closeups of Kristen's hands, making the Papier-mâché house, you can see her with blue sleeves. However, her pyjama top is all-over pink. (00:01:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: During the opening credits, Kristen is making a Papier-mâché house, and in the process, her hands become covered in mixture. However suddenly both her hands are completely clean. (00:02:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Kristen is building her model house during the opening credits, the can of diet coke sitting on the desk rotates itself between shots to show more of the brand label. (00:03:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Kristen's mom comes in and tells Kristen to go to bed, in the first shot Kristen's pillow lays flat on the bed. In the next shot it is propped up against the bedstead. (00:03:30)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Dr. Gordon is trying to sedate Kristen, between shots during the scene, a green cup on the floor, beside the cupboard, appears, disappears, reappears, etc. (00:11:05)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Kristen is in the clinic, and is resisting the sedative, she throws some turquoise items across the room. However, between shots she actually throws these same items twice. (00:11:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: Nancy has a grey streak in her hair from the first movie. However the streak is in the right side of her hair, when it was in her left side previously. The streak length changes throughout this film too. (00:11:50)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Kristen gets up from her bed, after the tricycle rolls into her room, she wears a shirt with no collar. But in the next shot as she walks out of the room, her shirt now has a collar. (00:18:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: Kristen is laying in bed, when suddenly a tricycle rolls into the room. In the first shot the tricycle rolls up right beside the end of the bed. In the next shot it has moved away. (00:18:40)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When we first see the pig on the platter it has fruit surrounding it, and it has an apple in it's mouth. But when the pig roars at Kristen the fruit and apple have gone. (00:19:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Kristen finds the pig on the platter you can see a champagne bottle standing right in front of the platter. Then as the camera pans around the room to Kristen, and you see the pig again, the champagne bottle is now laying down. (00:19:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Nancy falls backwards into the chair, and enters Kristen's dream, there is nothing on the chair. When she appears back on the chair afterwards, there's two pillows on the chair. (00:21:05 - 00:21:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Max turns off the lights, the switches are already down - he doesn't move them in any way (neither up nor down) and therefore hasn't made any actions that would alter the current lighting situation, however the lights turn themselves off anyway even though it is apparent the switches were not moved. Nobody else moved any lightswitches either. (00:25:50)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Freddy turns into a puppet, he cuts his own strings with his knive fingers to get down and as he falls you can see some strings still attached to him, but when the shot changes and he lands on the floor, there are no longer any strings attached to him. (00:28:30)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the group hypnosis fails, Neil tells everyone to take five. Joey gets up and walks over to the water cooler. In the next shot you can see Joey get up once again. (00:45:30)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Kristen is resisting being taken to the isolation room, she holds onto the desk. On the desk beside her is a file box. In the next shot as she is dragged away, the box is gone. (00:58:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Nancy is talking to Max about seeing the kids one last time, the front shots show her standing straight up. But the shots from behind she her leaning against the wall. (01:04:10)

Continuity mistake: When Nancy gathers the group for their final group hypnosis, she sets up the pendulum in position, and it begins to swing steadily yet in some shots, it is completely still. (01:05:55)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In her dream, Kristen does a back flip, and Freddy lungs at her, misses, and punches the wall. Yet in the next closeup Freddy rips his knife fingers out of the wall, as if his hand went straight into the wall. (01:09:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the first shot when Freddy injects his syringe-fingers in Taryn's arm, the syringes are spread apart and not in line. In the next shot all the fingers are in line, next to each other. (01:11:30)

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: When the boy who wanted to be a wizard is being chased in his dream, they are in a dark tight corridor, and Freddy releases a chair with spikes on it to chase after the boy, but if you look you can clearly see the chair is being pulled with strings. (01:12:50)

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Trivia: One of the best bargains that they got on an effect was when Kristen enters the nightmare house and sees a roasted pig that starts barking at her. The special effects guys were coming up with $300,000 estimates for how much a prosthetic pig would cost to build and animate; they could not afford that. Finally they got 2 REAL roasted pigs. One was decorated to look like it was ready to eat, and the other was made to look demonic. A crew member, who lost a coin toss, got under the table and stick his hand up into this dead pig to make it work. Glad it wasn't me...

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Question: I saw this movie for the first time in years the other night, and I did not remember that Nancy was killed in this one. Is this the last nightmare film that she was in (other than the one where Freddy came to the real world and everybody played real names)?

Answer: Yes it is the last one.

SAZOO1975

Answer: Technically she was also in New Nightmare, both as the "Nancy" character and as the actress Heather in various scenes.

Technically the author said other than the one where Freddy came to the real world and everybody played real names. So therefore the 1st answer was accurate.

lartaker1975

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