'A Nightmare on Elm Street 2': Robert Englund talks sequel's gay subtext

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"It's really there," Robert Englund says of gay subtext 1985 sequel "Freddy's Revenge."

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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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EXCLUSIVE: A documentary about the problematic legacy of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge told through the perspective of s then-closeted gay star Mark Patton has been acquired by Virgil Films & Entertament.

My Nightmare on Elm Street reunts Patton’s difficulti makg the 1985 horror sequel, which put him through a range of salac on-screen orals signed to whet the homophobic appet (nsc or otherwise) of 1980s dienc.

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“He’s si me, and he wants to take me aga!” Homosexualy and Gay Fandom A Nightmare On Elm Street: Freddy’s Revenge * freddy's revenge gay *

The Advote has scribed as “the gayt horror film ever ma.

'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2' AT 35: ROBERT ENGLUND ADDRS HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT OF 'THE GAYT HORROR MOVIE EVER MA'

Patton’s actg résumé clus Broadway rol and the 1982 Robert Altman film, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, another part that he says led to him beg typest before he had e out as gay. In addn to takg a new narrative directn, Freddy’s Revenge is also chock-full of homoerotic subtext.

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If the homoeroticism isn’t subtextual, the movie be more tertg.

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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.

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The homosexual ntext of Freddy’s Revenge went over my head on the first viewg as a kid. Lookg back, I believe I was ignorant of the homosexual tone of Freddy’s Revenge bee I didn’t want to see at the time.

It felt as if Freddy found another way to renew his hold over me by projectg my fear of beg gay onto Jse whout sayg exactly. In fact for a dntg mute durg my self-hatred perd of g to terms wh beg gay, I equated Freddy wantg to take over Jse’s body as a physil maniftatn of homosexualy tryg to claim Jse’s soul.

Whenever the gay tone of Freddy’s Revenge was mentned was ually associated wh negative nnotatns. While Belle om Fright Night Part II was the spark of my te inty, Freddy’s Revenge took that spark and igned my soul to slowly but surely beg fortable my sk as a proud Black gay man. 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.

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