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

Contents:

• ROBERT ENGLUND COM OUT! … ABOUT THE GAY EMBRACE AND SUBTEXT OF HIS NIGHTMARE FILMS
• 'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2' AT 35: ROBERT ENGLUND ADDRS HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT OF 'THE GAYT HORROR MOVIE EVER MA'
• IS ROBERT ENGLUND GAY?
• ROBERT ENGLUND GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 85 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
• ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER

ROBERT ENGLUND COM OUT! … ABOUT THE GAY EMBRACE AND SUBTEXT OF HIS NIGHTMARE FILMS

To hear Laguna Beach rint Robert Englund tell , his Freddy Keger movi uld be removed om the horror shelv and placed the gay cema sectn stead. –straight and married … to a woman, Englund recently told The Advote's Jase Peepl that when he saw drag queens drsed as the heroe W Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street shortly after the 1985 release, he knew the flick had legs wh gays.

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

“There's always been a great affectn the gay muny, and I share this om my pot of view as a heterosexual, for the survivor and the diva, ” Englund explaed. “That strong woman thg that gay men the '40s and '50s intified wh actrs like Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, there was a transference gog on the early '80s bee there was no Bette Davis then.

The embrace by gays embolned Englund to tentnally amplify the gay subtext the script for A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, pecially the scen wh the Jse Walsh character played by gay actor Mark Patton. Click here for the full article that also has Englund scribg “beg squired about” New York Cy “by this geo 6-foot-6 man a floor-length mk, ” watchg the AIDS epimic stroy his bs and a muny and how he longs for a newer, even gayer Nightmare. "I steal om every sgle movie ever ma, " he famoly told Empire magaze (via Bs Insir)  1994, the year his Osr-wng sophomore feature, Pulp Fictn, h ceplex.

IS ROBERT ENGLUND GAY?

As far as famoly homoerotic sequenc seemgly “straight” ’80s movi go, nothg will ever top the sweaty and shirtls fighter pilots bouncg around the sand to Kenny Loggs’s “Playg Wh the Boys” Top Gun’s unfettable beach volleyball as Robert Englund — the man who donned Freddy Keger’s murro razor-claw glove to torment teens for eight stallments of Nightmare on Elm Street — remds , the anchise’s first sequel, Freddy’s Revenge (1985), belongs the same nversatn. Jsie also dreams he’s at a gay bar one scene, and watch his male teacher get murred while stripped down the shower.

ROBERT ENGLUND GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 85 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

”It’s no wonr why Freddy’s Revenge has been lled “the gayt horror movie ever ma. Nowadays, there is no answer to the qutn -Robert Englund is gay?

Neverthels, speculatns over whether Robert Englund is gay or not are still prent certa rners of the tabloids and on var webs, once aga whout any solid foundatn. More and more celebri adm every year that they are gay, but this is not the se wh Robert Englund sce this celebry never said so. Although Robert Englund has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other.

Although Robert Englund has not said to be homosexual, 's easier to e out the world of the actors, as there have been many to precent this. Do you know any rmatn regardg the qutn - Is Robert Englund gay? It seems like every celebry has been lled gay at some pot or another.

ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER

Many of the gay mors surroundg Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street) seem to be tied to his obssive attentn to his body, like most actors. However the poll suggts that a big majory - 85% - of rponnts don't believe that he’s the poll:What do you thk about the gay mors surroundg Robert Englund? Is Robert Englund Gay?