The gay star of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge reunts his story a sweepg new doc that rang om the AIDS crisis to (ongog) bias Tseltown.
Contents:
- 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
- 31 DAYS OF HORROR: 'NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2″ IS SO GAY
HOW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 BEME AN INIC GAY HORROR FILM (AFTER YEARS OF BEG HATED)
An entertag documentary about the gay horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2" expos the price of beg gay Hollywood. * the gay nightmare on elm street *
In addn to takg a new narrative directn, Freddy’s Revenge is also chock-full of homoerotic subtext. If the homoeroticism isn’t subtextual, the movie be more tertg.
There was a Cracked article that named Freddy’s Revenge the most untentnally gay horror movie ever ma. And then there was the Never Sleep Aga documentary which wrer David Chask fally admted— a somewhat awkward way, when put on the spot—that the homoerotic unr/overton had been tentnal after took A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 thirty-one years to e out of the closet, but fally has and serv your support. As he puts : “I wake up the middle of the first movie that I’m the lead actor , and realize that there’s a gay subtext .
His story is a val piece of queer film history and a necsary remr of how far we’ve e the fight for gay liberatn. They provi an robt and engagg balance of film theory, cultural analysis, Hollywood gossip, and gay history.
THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
In his emotnally ndid terviews, he shar life advice om Cher, sharp wticisms beftg a Hollywood queen, tails of Hollywood’s pervasive homophobia and AIDS phobia, and a raw acuntg of survivg the epimic. “Nightmare 2” has sce bee a cult classic, often lled the gayt horror film ever ma. As explaed the documentary, the narrative “Nightmare 2” n be read as “the homosexual as monster wh, ” symbolized by Jse’s need to “reprs his own sir orr to survive.
” mak clear, Patton has held a lifelong gdge agast screenwrer David Chask for nyg he tentnally wrote gay subtext to the script. The film quot an old terview where he adms the subtext was tentnal, but “was tend to play homophobic rather than homoerotic. 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.
31 DAYS OF HORROR: 'NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2″ IS SO GAY
”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.
Watchg Freddy’s Revenge now, ’s hard to prehend that there was ever a bate over the film’s subtext, which be jt pla text the more blatantly homoerotic scen. His sexual ambiguy ma him the perfect choice for Jse, but gave the homophobic tractors of Freddy’s Revenge somethg to latch on to.
And even though Patton has embraced his “scream queen” stat — he had jt e om signg tographs and panel appearanc at San Diego Comic-Con this July afternoon — he remas driven by a need to set the rerd straight about the film that has hnted him for the past 30 Patton, whose only major film role before he played Jse was as a gay teenager later revealed to be a trans woman (played by Karen Black) Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the persistent cricism of Freddy’s Revenge was s own kd of nightmare: His sexual inty was exriated for g the film — and wh , his reer. As the actor tells , he beme pigeonholed as gay long before beg an out leadg man was a possibily.