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Contents:
- HOW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 BEME AN INIC GAY HORROR FILM (AFTER YEARS OF BEG HATED)
- '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
- THAT ONE TIME FREDDY WAS GAY
- WHO KNEW NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 WAS THE GAYT FILM OF THE 80S?
- WAS THE SEND NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?
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." * a nightmare on elm street 2 gay *
In addn to takg a new narrative directn, Freddy’s Revenge is also chock-full of homoerotic subtext.
'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2' AT 35: ROBERT ENGLUND ADDRS HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT OF 'THE GAYT HORROR MOVIE EVER MA'
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THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM 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! * a nightmare on elm street 2 gay *
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.
THAT ONE TIME FREDDY WAS 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.
WHO KNEW NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 WAS THE GAYT FILM OF THE 80S?
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.
WAS THE SEND NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ABOUT GAY RIGHTS?
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.