An entertag documentary about the gay horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2" expos the price of beg gay Hollywood.
Contents:
- THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
- HOW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 BEME AN INIC GAY HORROR FILM (AFTER YEARS OF BEG HATED)
THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
One publitn went as far as to dub A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 "the gayt horror film ever.
" Director Jack Sholr and wrer David Chask both nied the film's subtext, and Mark Patton (who was the closet at the time), worried that the suatns of the film beg overtly gay would lead to him beg typest, as he wasn't the typil Hollywood leadg male. Some of the clu a scene where Jse enunters his ach at a gay bar, a scene where said ach is whipped to ath by towels while naked the showers, a scene wh Jse and his bt iend Grady (Rler) where Jse approach him bed, and a scene where Jse attempts to make out wh his girliend at a party before fleeg panic.
HOW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 BEME AN INIC GAY HORROR FILM (AFTER YEARS OF BEG HATED)
Beyond that, the film's release 1985 was at the height of the AIDS epimic the Uned Stat, which ed a lot of stigma surroundg gay men and subsequent gay panic was on the rise. Chask reportedly mented that Patton and his performance were to blame, as there was no tentnal gay ntent the film. This ed animosy between Chask and Patton over the years, as Patton went on rerd sayg that Chask lled his performance "too gay.
Chask has sce said the subtext was always tentnal and he had wrten the script to ment on the AIDS crisis, gay panic, and the angst young men experience if they stggled wh their sexualy. Jse and Freddy's relatnship is tend to have a homoerotic subtext wh Freddy reprentg Jse's fear of 'g out'. At one pot the film, he also ends up a gay S&M club where he is nonted by his homosexual gym teacher, Schneir.
Freddy and Jse were timate — they seemed to share a secret — and the subtext of that relatnship gave Freddy’s Revenge a homoerotic unrcurrent that eventually ma a cult classic. ”However much Englund held back, the damage was done: That scene helps tablish the lible imprsn of Freddy’s Revenge as the gayt slasher film ever ma. Screenwrer David Chask spent years refg to acknowledge any tentnal subtext his script — a posn he has sce reversed — and director Jack Sholr claimed not to have noticed the movie’s gayns durg filmg.