This is one of the most vile and subversive attacks on and condemnations of homosexuality.

Jesse is a boy doubting his own sexuality. He has a budding relationship with a lovely girl and a love/hate relationship with a popular guy. Once he starts doubting where his feelings lie, this offensive film shows its true nature. His homosexual feelings are presented to us as an evil, disgusting creature, trying to take over. From this point on Jesse keeps saying someone is trying to 'get inside of him' and we are shown that he is afraid, ney, terrified of this feeling, terrified of giving into the evil that is his own budding homosexuality.

When in a moment of weakness he does give…

Directed by - Jack Sholder
Written by - David Chaskin
Starring - Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Marshall Bell, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange and Sydney Walsh

About three years ago, during a night of heavy drinking, smoking and debating, I set out to prove to a couple of friends that A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2 was the most homoerotic mainstream horror movie ever made. Forget, for a moment at least, that it’s a pale imitation of the original film and focus simply on what happens on the screen; Jesse (Patton) - a sensitive, emotional and confused young man - is having dreams about another man taking over his body. These dreams invariably involve BDSM, the…

Much better than its reputation. The famous gay subtext gives it a powerful dramatic kick that you don't often see in cash-in franchise movies like this one, but there are other pleasures to be had as well - the first movie's brand of horror-surrealism is given a worthy continuation here, with the added bonus of an extreme heat and fire motif that gives many of the setpieces a kind of continuity from one to the other, something I don't recall being the case in any of the other Freddy movies.

I also liked all the heat stuff because being from Florida I can definitely identify with the terror of being in a 95-degree house with two parents who refuse to…

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Gay

1984 saw Wes Craven bring something new to the horror scene for the first time since 1972's Last House On The Left. Scoring a huge hit with A Nightmare On Elm Street, Craven had literally created a monster.

The thing that I find really, really odd about the sequel to one of the biggest horror hit's of the 80's is, not why isn't Wes back in the directing seat? Nor is it why all off a sudden Freddy has developed powers to possess people. Hey even the exploding budgie i'm willing to let go. The thing I find really odd about Freddy's revenge is the massive homoerotic underpinnings going on in this…

48/100

Easy to understand why folks who give a shit about the Elm Street franchise (which I do not, disliked the original) would be annoyed by this entry, which almost entirely dispenses with the principal conceit of Freddy murdering people during REM cycles. Jack Sholder (The Hidden) is a much better director than Craven, however, and while he still can't do much to make Krueger scary, he excels at nightmare imagery: the schoolbus teetering over the chasm; that stunning shot of the little girl's jump rope slicing through the frame out of focus. And while I'd heard about the film's gay subtext, I wasn't prepared for how blatantly it suggests that Jesse can't cope with his own true nature, turning…

Directed by - Jack Sholder
Written by - David Chaskin
Starring - Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Marshall Bell, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange and Sydney Walsh

About three years ago, during a night of heavy drinking, smoking and debating, I set out to prove to a couple of friends that A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2 was the most homoerotic mainstream horror movie ever made. Forget, for a moment at least, that it’s a pale imitation of the original film and focus simply on what happens on the screen; Jesse (Patton) - a sensitive, emotional and confused young man - is having dreams about another man taking over his body. These dreams invariably involve BDSM, the…

"So what about that rich chick you've been cruising to school with everyday?
Are you mounting her nightly or WHAT?"

Ahhh good old Robert Russler, the 80s go-to guy for playing the douchebag!!

Having only seen this film once as a young boy...and hating it with a passion, I was interested to see how it holds up now.
The answer is 'not well'.

Good things to say are limited...it took a totally different approach to the first which was interesting. Lisa' friend and especially her mom are beautiful! Plus a few of the effects are impressive, at least ideas wise if not in execution.

Bad things? Pretty much everything else! The effects are mostly awful..even the good ideas like the…