A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

1985 Directed by Jack Sholder

Someone is coming back to Elm Street!

A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only be overcome if the boy's sweetheart can master her fear.

Robert Englund Mark Patton Kim Myers Robert Rusler Clu Gulager Hope Lange Marshall Bell Melinda O. Fee Tom McFadden Sydney Walsh Edward Blackoff Christie Clark Lyman Ward Donna Bruce Hart Sprager Allison Barron JoAnn Willette Steve Eastin Brian Wimmer Robert Chaskin Kerry Remsen Kimberly Lynn Steven Smith Jonathan Hart Tom Tangen Robert Shaye

Alternative Titles

Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 Freddy's Wraak, Кошмари на Елм стрийт, Част 2: Отмъщението на Фреди, A Hora do Pesadelo 2: A Vingança de Freddy, 猛鬼街2, Nocní mura v Elm Street 2: Freddyho pomsta, Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - Die Rache, Morderisk mareridt 2, Pesadilla en Elm Street 2, Pesadilla en Elm Street 2: La venganza de Freddy, Pesadilla en la Calle del Infierno 2, Painajainen Elm Streetillä 2 - Freddyn kosto, Painajainen Elm Streetillä 2 – Freddyn kosto, Freddy - Chapitre 2 - La Revanche De Freddy, Freddy 2, Efialtis sto dromo me tis lefkes No 2, Εφιάλτης στο δρόμο με τις λεύκες 2, Strava u Ulici brijestova 2: Freddyjeva osveta, Rémálom 2: Freddy visszavág, Rémálom az Elm utcában 2.: Freddy bosszúja, Nightmare 2 - La rivincita, Erumu gai no akumu 2 - Furedi no fukushû, Pesadilla en la calle del infierno 2, Pesadilla en la calle del infierno II: la venganza de Freddy, Koszmar z ulicy Wiązów 2: Zemsta Freddy'ego, Pesadelo em Elm Street II, Cosmar pe strada Ulmilor: Razbunarea lui Freddy, Strava u Ulici brestova 2: Fredijeva osveta, Terror på Elm Street 2 - Freddys hämnd, Maščevanje v ulici brestov, Nočná mora v Elm Street 2: Freddyho pomsta, Кошмар на улице Вязов 2: Месть Фредди, Pesadilla en la Calle Elm 2 La Venganza de Freddy, A Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy's Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - Freddy's Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

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Review by Jake 3

"...For there is a man inside me, and only when he's finally out, I can walk free of pain."
-- Tobias Fünke
Review by DirkH ★★ 52

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…
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★½ 23

The director of Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, Jack Sholder (Alone in the Dark), must have a pretty big pair of steel balls to not only direct the one sequel that didn't give a shit about continuity or cohesion, but to also publicly state he didn't really like Wes Craven's NOES in the first place, so he didn't mind directing a script which tried to take the story in a completely different direction is pretty ballsy. The fact that Sholder was completely oblivious to the set design, Jesse/Ron romance and the intended homosexual subtext is either hilarious, or a bald-faced lie.
I wonder what people's reaction was to this installment when they saw it theatrically in 1985?…
Review by nathaxnne (hiatus due to injury) ★★★★★ 6

When I first watched 'Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge' in High School, I felt let down from the first movie. It felt so different, not like a direct sequel. Now, so much later, I realize this is a strength of the film. The deliberately artificial direction of Jack Sholder is really appropriate for Freddy's nightmare world. The opening sequence with the school bus is like a weird amalgam of afterschool specials, 'Dirty Harry', Ray Harryhausen movies and 70's disaster cinema. Compared to Wes Craven's movie, Sholder's looks almost television cheaper, weirder and more bitingly funny, almost like an extended riff on sitcom aesthetics. Not only is there a family breakfast where one is waiting for the laugh track…
Review by Allison M. ★★★ 3

Not sure why I watched this right before bed.
The execution was campy, though, so not too terrifying.
Vegan alerts:
-Animal heart on dissection table
-Exploding birds
-Rat devoured (blood is shown)
Review by Arielrocks5 ★★★★ 14

Making a sequel is a risky idea both in terms of quality control and business.
On one hand, it seems perfect in both regards. If something was incredibly successful, you'd want to capitalize on that and give the people more of what they liked. On the other hand, sometimes the person who made the original either doesn't have much to do with their pre-established worlds and characters, thus either leading to them making a lesser version of something they themselves created, or they get booted off, and replaced with someone else to take a stab at it, leading either to them making equally as much as their predecessor or backfiring horribly.
Horror sequels are more typically the latter than the…

Recent reviews

Review by Mr Hegs ★★

I used to like this one, but it's pretty fucking ridiculous. As a follow up to the original people must have been so let down. Freddy is barely in it.
Review by noneil ★★

Soooooo there was a scene in a BDSM bar which did not seem necessary
Review by jen ★★★½

imgo (in my gay opinion), jesse and grady were in love
Review by TonyToniToneLoc ★★★

There’s a lot to be said of the homosexual undertones in this film, but the best source to go for that is Mark Patton’s “Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street”. I’ll talk about what I like about his film. I particularly like Mark Patton’s role as the film’s central protagonist, as well as his friendship with Ron. I also like the casting, especially Jesse’s dad, played by Clu Gulager. The effects are solid, and the pacing isn’t bad either. I wish things would’ve gone better for Mark Patton’s career after this film, because I think he’s fantastic in this. Nightmare On Elm Street: Freddy’s Revenge is definitely a step back from its predecessor, but there’s something I’ll always enjoy about his movie, as this was the first Elm Street film I recall watching. 3 stars. Tony says check check it out.
Review by Julian ★★★★½

Someone once asked me if I ever had a crush on an actress. I think, now I do have - lol.
Review by tommy ★★★★

every time mark patton screamed i had a serotonin rush
Review by Charles Arpin ★★★★½ 2

The fact that my teacher told me my queer reading of this film was contrived and wrong is one of the small reasons I’m really happy to be graduating.
How in what world does this film not have a queer subtext. Not everything needs to be connected back to a theory written 40 fucking years ago.
Review by Morios ★★

Night Visions Turku 7/10
Review by sly3 ★★★

A curious example of expanding upon the mythos of a villainous character by giving us less of him. Englund underplays the role, and there's very little scenery chewing and the camp performance that we get in the later sequels.
The undercurrent of queer themes is obvious even if you're not looking for it, and it seems that some of the producers are on the same page with this angle, some are not, and this disunity leads to many of the films' faults in rhythm and tone. This brings up the question of whether the entire piece exists within a dream world.
However, there's lots of eighties cheese in the production design, and many of the effects are wonderfully realized practical effects (the eyeball in the throat especially).