The send movie the seri, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), seems much different than the rt of the much different ed! As fans have poted out, the gay subtext throughout the send film the anchise is absolutely unniable!
Contents:
- WHO KNEW NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 WAS THE GAYT FILM OF THE 80S?
- THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
- WAS THE SEND NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?
WHO KNEW NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 WAS THE GAYT FILM OF THE 80S?
Makg the lead of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge volved a gay (pedophilia-ish?) gay love story wh Jse only add to the "sry," * nightmare elm street 2 gay *
One publitn went as far as to dub A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 "the gayt horror film ever.
THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
" 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.
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.
WAS THE SEND NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?
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. Makg the lead of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge volved a gay (pedophilia-ish?
) gay love story wh Jse only add to the “sry, ” says the film’s wrer David Chask.