'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
• ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER
• 'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2' AT 35: ROBERT ENGLUND ADDRS HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT OF 'THE GAYT HORROR MOVIE EVER MA'
• THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
• ROBERT ENGLUND SAYS WE'RE READY FOR A GAY 'NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2'
• IS ROBERT ENGLUND GAY?
• ROBERT ENGLUND GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 85 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

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.

ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER

–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.

THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA

“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.

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ROBERT ENGLUND SAYS WE'RE READY FOR A GAY 'NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2'

Robert Englund says he spected A Nightmare on Elm Street was sted to have a large gay fan followg when he saw several drag queens drsed as his star Heather Langenkamp's character, Nancy Thompson, at a stume party 1985. "Lookg back more than 30 years after the first film the anchise slashed s way to pop culture history, Englund has a theory why the first heroe of Elm Street and the actrs who played her fiercely ronated wh gay horror fans. "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, " he says.

"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. I thk young teen boys and girls the late '70s and early '80s who were gay ma their transference wh characters like the survivor girl, which is a great gredient of the horror movie, startg wh Jamie Lee Curtis and g to full blossom wh Heather's character Nancy.

"So that area where gay culture and Hollywood crossover, Heather hered some of those fans and I thk that's why Nancy beme that supplemental diva for the gay muny.

IS ROBERT ENGLUND GAY?

"While Nancy hooked a new generatn of gay horror fans the origal Elm Street adventure, was the film's first sequel that reeled them for more. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge took a bold turn by replacg the tradnal "fal girl" wh male protagonist Jse Walsh, played by gay actor Mark Patton.

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

The movie also ntaed gay subtext purposefully woven to the script by screenwrer David Chask, which was further highlighted by stylistic choic ma durg filmg.

Most members of the sequel's productn team have nied they were aware of the gay unrton throughout Nightmare 2 over the years. Branch of London's Royal Amy of Dramatic Art attribut that portn of his tn to the many gay iends he ma durg the early days of his reer. "So I had many gay iends and I crashed on uch at their ho when I started out as a workg actor.