Patricia Arquette Has a Specific Request for Returning to This Fan-Favorite Horror Franchise

Hey, this is a safe space, yeah? Like, I can be real with you and you won’t freak out too much. Right? Because I’m going to say something to you that I can’t take back but … I mean it. I never thought I would, but I do. Maybe I’ve changed over the years, but who hasn’t? I’m proud of my growth, as a writer, as a father, and as a human being. If I can’t be honest and share how I’ve grown, what is the point? No, I’m going to be brave and just say it: I don’t think A Nightmare on Elm St. 3: Dream Warriors is very good.

For a long time in my life, I would call the Nightmare on Elm St. franchise my favorite in the horror genre. As I’ve aged, I’ve learned I really like the original film and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare. The rest of the films are okay, with some bright spots sprinkled throughout. I also, of course, love Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger, but the idea of him is never as well executed as in the first and seventh films. Dream Warriors is up there, though!

The third film boasts a fantastic cast, which includes a young Larry Fishburne (as he was then credited) and Patricia Arquette (more on her in a moment). The idea is fun, with a ragtag group of kids in a psychiatric hospital being coached by original series lead, Heather Langencamp, into battling Freddy in their dreams. They’re all given special powers to battle the nightmare-fueled monster, but they never really use them, getting picked off instead until Freddy is beaten and maybe you find out who his mom is.

I know I’m underselling it a little, but, like the franchise itself, the idea behind Dream Warriors is better than its execution. But I’m human, just like you (I assume). If there were some way to relive that film in the modern age, I wouldn’t kick it out of my dreams. Neither would Patricia Arquette, as long as whoever’s behind it makes a change to her character.

Comicbook.com caught up with Arquette to talk about the new season of Severance and they asked what it would take to get Arquette to return to the franchise. “Ya know, I just, I never really thought that in my dreams I’d be a gymnast, so I don’t know,” the actress explained playfully. “Can I change my superpower? Maybe I’ll come back if I can change my superpower but I mean, I don’t know. I can be invisible; I can be anti-gravitational. I can do all kinds of things. Why do I have to do gymnastics? I like gymnastics don’t get me wrong but I’d like something a little more lethal when I’m dealing with him.”

That’s a fair request, but the other powers didn’t help anyone. A kid turns into a wizard and gets beaten just as easily! It’s a fun movie. I don’t dislike watching it. It just… I don’t know, man. Patricia’s probably safer staying away anyway.