Who Knew Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Was the Gayt Film of the 80s? - Queerty

Contents:

• HOW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 BEME AN INIC GAY HORROR FILM (AFTER YEARS OF BEG HATED)
• WHO KNEW NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 WAS THE GAYT FILM OF THE 80S?
• 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)

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.

WHO KNEW NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 WAS THE GAYT FILM OF THE 80S?

One publitn went as far as to dub A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 "the gayt horror film ever.

" 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.

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

Chask reportedly mented that Patton and his performance were to blame, as there was no tentnal gay ntent the film.