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the gay nightmare on elm street

An entertag documentary about the gay horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2" expos the price of beg gay Hollywood.

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HOW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 BEME AN INIC GAY HORROR FILM (AFTER YEARS OF BEG HATED)

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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.

THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA

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.

31 DAYS OF HORROR: 'NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2″ IS SO GAY

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.

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