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"It's really there," Robert Englund says of gay subtext 1985 sequel "Freddy's Revenge."

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

* a nightmare on elm street gay subtext *

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

This ed animosy between Chask and Patton over the years, as Patton went on rerd sayg that Chask lled his performance "too gay.

NEW DOCUMENTARY SET TO EXPLORE GAY SUBTEXT IN "NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2"IS "NIGHTMARE 2" THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER? 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AS WE WALKED TO DNER, I WAS AMAZED AT HOW FORTABLE I FELT, I NOTICED ALL THE PEOPLE MOVG RAPIDLY, SOME SLOWLY… ALL VOLVED THEIR OWN WORLD… NOBODY STARED AT AS WE WALKED AND TALKED, WE WERE NOT EAKS, JT TWO GUYS OUT FOR A WALK."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, Y, 'S FAIRLY CERTA, IF NOT BEG EXPLICLY STATED, THAT JSE WAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOW THERE'S A KICKSTARTER TO FUND A DOCUMENTARY, SCREAM, QUEEN! – MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, ABOUT THE FILM AND PATTON, WHO HIMSELF WAS OPENLY GAY. "LTLE DID I KNOW THE EFFECT THAT THE FILM WOULD HAVE ON MY LIFE," PATTON RELLS THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I WAKE UP THE MIDDLE OF THE FIRST MOVIE THAT I'M THE LEAD ACTOR , AND REALIZE THERE'S A GAY SUBTEXT . IN 1985, HOLLYWOOD WAS VERY HOMOPHOBIC AND VERY AIDS-PHOBIC. IF YOU WERE GAY, YOU WERE HIDG."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WATCH THE TRAILER FOR THE FILM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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. 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.

”It’s no wonr why Freddy’s Revenge has been lled “the gayt horror movie ever ma. As anyone who's seen 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge might tell you, the film is memorable not jt for s gome murrs but for s not-so-subtle homosexual one pot the film, Jse, played by openly gay actor Mark Patton, is nonted by his homosexual gym teacher after wdg up at Don's Place, a gay S&M this film was were other signs: like when Jse lipsyncs to Touch Me (All Night Long) his bedroom, backg his booty up to his drs to close the the 2010 documentary Never Sleep Aga: The Elm Street Legacy, screenwrer David Chask pretty much admted that the homosexual subtext was even posted "Jse's Lost Journal" onle, a 68-entry "diary" of Jse's journey throughout (and after) the events picted Elm Street Entry 39 (and y, I read them all), he begs to exprs his homosexual sir, sayg "Col touched me lightly the small of my back as if to let me know that I should walk out the door first, I felt this was a good sign of him beg a cent person. – My Nightmare on Elm Street, about the film and Patton, who himself was openly gay.

"I wake up the middle of the first movie that I'm the lead actor , and realize there's a gay subtext .

THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA

In 1985, Hollywood was very homophobic and very AIDS-phobic. If you were gay, you were hidg. While some earlier films do clu overtly gay them, thgs went unrground durg the Hays Co era, and the reverberatns of that subversive queerns rema uful to this day.

Here are 31 of the most famoly queer and homoerotic horror films. Some of the movi center on explicly gay terror, while others only feature LGBTQ characters.

A tan of classic horror, gay filmmaker Jam Whale wove queerns to most of his films, which clu the origal “Frankenste” and “The Invisible Man. ” All his films see Whale stg gay actors and playg up queer them var ways. But as wh so much of Hchck, ’s hard to say that this is an outright homophobic visn, pecially when the script has the souciance of Osr Wil: “Before this day is out I fear we’ll hear that terribly old-fashned but que exprsive term ‘foul play, ’” Sanrs says, all while munchg on a chicken leg.

HOW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 BEME AN INIC GAY HORROR FILM (AFTER YEARS OF BEG HATED)

Is he gay, and his mother a homophobe whose prence his life he n’t pe? ” The remarkable thg about all this is that Hchck mak you intify wh Perks (who was gay and closeted real life) as much as he did Marn Crane herself, to the pot that, as Hchck often did at his perverse bt, you’re kda rootg for him. A prolific and succsful horror fictn wrer who began directg to adapt his work himself, out gay filmmaker Clive Barker is rponsible for two of the films on this list, “Nightbreed” and “Hellraiser.

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

Though didn’t spawn any sequels, “Nightbreed” was more crilly embraced than “Hellraiser” and is nsired a direct metaphor for gay activism. “In many ways, ‘Interview’ is the most mercially succsful gay film of all time, and most dienc didn’t even realize they were seeg a gay film. In fact, ’s so beloved by queer women that ’s hard to believe there is virtually nothg explicly gay about “The Craft.

Takg the token gay iend to his rightfully sensual ends, her roommate Adrien luxuriat his sexualy, brgg boys home and flntg the pleasur of the flh that seem so out of reach to the raveno Jte. For 2019’s “Midnight Kiss, ” a sexy gay slasher set amongst a group of LA gay iends on New Year’s Eve, Blumhoe tapped out gay talent — wrer Erlgur Thoroddsen and director Carter Smh, who also hired all queer actors for the queer rol.

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.

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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.

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