An entertag documentary about the gay horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2" expos the price of beg gay Hollywood.
Contents:
- HOW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 BEME AN INIC GAY HORROR FILM (AFTER YEARS OF BEG HATED)
- 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'
- WHO KNEW NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 WAS THE GAYT FILM OF THE 80S?
- WAS THE SEND NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?
- ‘SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’ TRAILER: THE DARK TTH BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
- ‘SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’ TRAILER: A GAY HORROR CLASSIC’S SAD SECRET
HOW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 BEME AN INIC GAY HORROR FILM (AFTER YEARS OF BEG HATED)
"It's really there," Robert Englund says of gay subtext 1985 sequel "Freddy's Revenge." * nightmare on elm street 2 gay *
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. " 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.
THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
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 on elm street 2 gay *
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 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.
'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2' AT 35: ROBERT ENGLUND ADDRS HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT OF 'THE GAYT HORROR MOVIE EVER MA'
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! * nightmare on elm street 2 gay *
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. 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.
WHO KNEW NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 WAS THE GAYT FILM OF THE 80S?
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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.
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.
WAS THE SEND NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?
A new documentary exam actor Mark Patton's stggle wh the famo gay subtext "Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge." * nightmare on elm street 2 gay *
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.
‘SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’ TRAILER: THE DARK TTH BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
Exclive: "Nightmare on Elm Street 2" is often lled the gayt horror movie ever ma, and ed lead actor Mark Patton's life. * nightmare on elm street 2 gay *
”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. “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.
‘SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’ TRAILER: A GAY HORROR CLASSIC’S SAD SECRET
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.