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!
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- THE NIGHTMARE BEHD 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'
- ‘SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’ TRAILER: THE DARK TTH BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
- ROBERT ENGLUND SAYS WE'RE READY FOR A GAY 'NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2'
- A GAY ‘NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’ REMAKE!?
- WAS THE SEND NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?
THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
An entertag documentary about the gay horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2" expos the price of beg gay Hollywood. * a nightmare on elm street gay *
In addn to takg a new narrative directn, Freddy’s Revenge is also chock-full of homoerotic subtext.
'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2' AT 35: ROBERT ENGLUND ADDRS HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT OF 'THE GAYT HORROR MOVIE EVER MA'
"It's really there," Robert Englund says of gay subtext 1985 sequel "Freddy's Revenge." * a nightmare on elm street gay *
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 all.It took A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 thirty-one years to e out of the closet, but fally has and serv your support.
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.
‘SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’ TRAILER: THE DARK TTH BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
A new documentary exam actor Mark Patton's stggle wh the famo gay subtext "Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge." * a nightmare on elm street gay *
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.
ROBERT ENGLUND SAYS WE'RE READY FOR A GAY 'NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2'
Freddy Keger actor Robert Englund talks about the gay subtext the 'Nightmare on Elm Street 2.' * a nightmare on elm street gay *
At the same time, even as the AIDS crisis cimated the gay muny, Patton was forced to stay the closet, rtricted by a bs he eventually chose to leave the stigmatizatn of queer reprentatn over the last 30 years, perceptn of Freddy’s Revenge has shifted: The heavily d queerns that was once a mark agast has bee a charmgly dated relic of another time, and a sellg pot for cult nnoissrs. Inial reviews, though largely negative, did not pot out the film’s homoerotic slant, although Variety lled Patton’s Jse “strange enough to nstute an outsir prence, ” a scriptor that certaly signifi is some bate over where the first direct mentn of the film’s gay subtext appeared.
Patton and Sholr ce the Village Voice, while Chask believ was actually the gay publitn The Advote.
The article qutn lled Freddy’s Revenge, by Sholr’s rellectn, “the gayt horror film ever ma.
A GAY ‘NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’ REMAKE!?
While there’s no doubtg the opprsive homophobia of 1980s Hollywood, the specific circumstanc surroundg the film are often a matter of "he said, he said.
”By ntrast, Patton sists that Chask, stead of merely stayg quiet, repeatedly placed the blame for the queer terpretatn of the film on Patton’s “too gay” performance, rather than on the script.
WAS THE SEND NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?
“I don’t rell any terview where I would have ed the words ‘too gay’ but if I implied somethg like that and/or said anythg to e Mark grief, I certaly apologize, ” he wrote.
Deliberately or otherwise, Patton’s associatn wh what me to be known as the “gayt horror film ever ma” — while he was beg told to keep his sexualy a secret — left lastg srs. Growg up Kansas Cy the 1960s, he stood out and soon realized he was gay.