A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

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: 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

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: 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 Freddy and Kristen are fighting in the boiler room, there are some barrels full of bones. Later they disappear.

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 Philip is sleepwalking, he walks out of the room since the door is wide open. Yet in the scene where Joey is slamming on everyone's doors to wake them up, we see that the door to Philip's room is shut because Kincaid is seen opening the door.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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'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: 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: The day Kristin is admitted into the hospital, she is screaming and fighting with the staff. She then cuts Max on his right inner arm with a scalpel. In the next scene where Max is introducing the kids to Nancy, Max has a very small band-aid where Kristin cut him yet the band-aid is on the outer part of his arm by his elbow.

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: 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 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

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: During Joey's nightmare, he is seduced by a topless nurse who then captures him before turning into Freddy. As originally conceived, only her face was going to transform at first, thus having Freddy's burnt male head on top of an otherwise perfect topless female body in order to create an eerie, otherworldly look. The actress portraying the nurse even took part in some test shots and performed the scene under heavy prosthetics to make her face look exactly like Freddy's. However, the effect was cut as the crew felt it looked far too weird, and that it diminished the moment when Freddy fully appears on-camera in the scene.

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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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