"Dream Warriors" is a song by American band

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, that was written by members George Lynch & Jeff Pilson for the movie '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors''. The song was released as a single in 1987, charting at number 22 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and was also released on Dokken's fourth album, '' Back for the Attack,'' as the closing track to that album''.''

Music video

The music video used clips from the movie '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'', and primarily featured actress

Patricia Arquette Patricia Tiffany Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' (1987). Her other notable films include '' True Romance'' (1993), ''Ed W ...

, and

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in the role of

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. The video featured various scenes from the film, combined with a small amount of original footage of Arquette's character Kristen being menaced by Freddy Krueger before being rescued by Dokken who drives Freddy off with the power of rock 'n' roll. At the end of the video Freddy wakes up in bed screaming revealing that the video was his nightmare and exclaims, "What a nightmare! Who were those guys?" The video was ranked as the #1 "Killer '80s Heavy Metal Horror Movie Music

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by VH1 in 2015.

Track listing

In addition to "Dream Warriors," the single contained the songs "Back for the Attack" - a previously unreleased track from the ''

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'' album sessions, and "Paris Is Burning," from the album '' Breaking the Chains''.

Charts

Legacy and cover versions

Don Dokken performed the song acoustically at the 30th anniversary event for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. In 2018, the song was covered in the episode "Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club" from the third season of the television series '' Riverdale'', performed by

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, Ashleigh Murray, Camila Mendes and

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References

Dokken songs A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) music Songs written for films 1987 singles Songs written by George Lynch (musician) Songs written by Jeff Pilson Songs about nightmares Songs about Freddy Krueger {{metal-song-stub