Chuck Russell
1987
This third nightmare is only the second installment I've seen in the franchise, but stands up admirably to the first. Youthful patients sequestered in a mental asylum are preyed upon by child-killer Freddy, with the kids' institutionalization providing another degree of deniability for the clueless adults. Heather Langenkamp returns as the veteran "final girl," and both Patricia Arquette and Laurence Fishburne make welcome appearances, not to mention John Saxon's triumphant return as a sad-sack drunk. Like the original, the kill scenes are creative and fantastic with the special effects gaining plenty of leeway from the hallucinatory nature of the setpieces. A couple highlights are the jalopy apocalypse John Saxon is subjected to, and a mental patient with a heroin past attacked by Freddy's syringe fingers. After this one, I'm definitely willing to go a few more rounds with Mr. Kruger in following sequels.
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