A Nightmare on Elm Street 3

Memorable Quotes, Cool Information and Goofs

Memorable Quotes
Taryn: In my dreams I'm beautiful.
[Flicks open a switchblade.]
Taryn: And baaad!

William 'Will' Stanton: I'm in.

Nancy Thompson: It's now or never. I'm not gonna kid you, this is as dangerous as it gets. If you die in this dream it's for real. Nobody has to go in that doesn't want to.

Kristen Parker: One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, Four, better lock your door. Five, six, grab a crucifix. Seven, eight, better stay up late. Nine, ten, never... never...
Nancy Thompson: Never sleep again. Where did you learn that rhyme?

Nancy Thompson: I used to live in this house.
Kristen Parker: But that's just a house I dream about.

Kristen Parker: The man in my dreams... he's real, isn't he?
Nancy Thompson: He's real.

[While fighting with Dr. Simms]
Kristen Parker: You stupid bitch, you're killing us-YOU'RE KILLING US!

Freddy: Sorry kid, I don't believe in fariy tales.

Freddy: Let's get high.

Freddy: This is it Jennifer, you're big break in T.V.

Little Girl: Freddy's hoooome.

Cool Information:
When the clay puppet face turns into Freddy's, special-effects man Doug Beswick used stop-motion animation. Filming began with a clay Freddy face that was made plainer in each frame. The result was then run backwards, and that is what appears in the final cut of the film.

Freddy Krueger's famous line, "Welcome to prime time, bitch!" was actually an improvised line by Robert Englund. The original line was, "You're on TV now, girl!"

The scene in which Neil Gordon (Craig Wasson) is thrown into the grave and partially buried by the skeleton of Freddy is a tribute to Body Double (1984), in which Wasson's character is similarly buried alive.

The movie that on TV that Jennifer watches before she dies is Critters (1986).

Sally Kellerman was originally in the script, as the guest on the Dick Cavett show in scene in which Jennifer dies.

Goofs:
Continuity: Nancy's streak is seen on the right side, when it was on the left side in Nightmare On Elm Street, A (1984).

Continuity: When Freddy lunges at Kristen when she back-flips off the wall, he punches the wall with his fist. But in the close up following, his blades are stuck in the wall.

Continuity: In the junkyard, they park the truck and turn off the lights. A short while later, the lights are back on again when Thompson is trying to get back into the truck.

Audio/visual unsynchronised: When the room starts to change and get hot, Kristen is heard screaming, "This isn't real!" but her mouth does not move.

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

Continuity: When Freddy moves to kill Taryn with an overdose of drugs, he has hypodermic needles where his fingers would be, at first not all the needles penetrate Taryns skin, some miss the arm completely. In the next shot however, all the needles, including the ones that missed, are in her arm.

Continuity: During the opening titles, while Kristen is making the model of the Elm Street house, the color of her pajamas changes between shots.

Visible crew/equipment: When Will is attacked by the wheelchair, you can see strings pulling it.

Continuity: When Donald is fighting with the skeleton Freddy, it has the claws. But, Nancy's mom took the claws away from him when they buried him.