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

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge(1985), Painajainen Elm Streetillä 2 – Freddyn kosto, A Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy's Revenge, Pesadilla en Elm Street 2: La venganza de Freddy, Pesadilla en Elm Street 2, Rémálom az Elm utcában 2.: Freddy bosszúja, 猛鬼街2, Freddy - Chapitre 2 - La Revanche De Freddy, Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - Die Rache, Pesadilla en la Calle Elm 2 La Venganza de Freddy, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - Freddy's Revenge, Freddy 2, 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, Nocní mura v Elm Street 2: Freddyho pomsta, Morderisk mareridt 2, Painajainen Elm Streetillä 2 - Freddyn kosto, Εφιάλτης στο δρόμο με τις λεύκες 2, Efialtis sto dromo me tis lefkes No 2, Strava u Ulici brijestova 2: Freddyjeva osveta, Rémálom 2: Freddy visszavág, 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, Кошмар на улице Вязов 2: Месть Фредди, Nočná mora v Elm Street 2: Freddyho pomsta, Pesadilla en la Calle del Infierno 2, A Nightmare On Elm Street 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1985), Pesadilla 2: La venganza de Freddy

horror

87 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by Jake Isgar 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 ★★ 58

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 amaya ★★★★ 9

why do straight people think this is homophobic. let us enjoy our funky little gay horror movie i just wanna see fruity krueger do his silly little murders
Review by nathaxnne (hiatus) ★★★★★ 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 Logan Kenny ★★★★★ 2

“I got blood on my hands. He owns me.”
some of us can never get past the shame.
Review by Ian West ★★★★★ 24

Nightmares entering reality, sexual frustration, bus trips of doom, fake Meryl Streep, body horror, inner turmoil, exploding birds, locker room redemption, Mark Shostrom’s amaxing effects, and seeing your worst nightmare rip itself out of your closest friend.
After the first film shook young me to the core, my cousin and I popped NOES 2: Freddy’s Revenge—I felt IMMEDIATLY thrusted back into harms way. I loved it, it’s my second favorite Elm Street film and one of my most cherished sequels that I could watch at anytime. Everything about this movie is how I remember growing up when I did, the clothes, the neighborhood, the furniture, the family life “Nobody likes a smartass buddy boy”, the attraction to both Kim Myers AND…
Review by Jacob Knight ★★★ 2

Sure, all the queer subtext is amazing, but Clu Gulager also tries to wave off a pet bird going apeshit and then LITERALLY BURSTING INTO FUCKING FLAMES by blaming it on a faulty gas line. We don’t talk about that enough.
Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★ 4

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 toni ★★★★ 4

if you’re not convinced that Jesse is gay after seeing the Kate Bush poster hanging in his room then idk what else to tell you
Review by Tony the Terror😼🏳️‍🌈 👻 ★★★★½ 8

I have to shift gears from Friday the 13th for a bit because I realized that the Nightmare on Elm Street movies are only available on demand through Halloween and I wanted to at least get a couple of them in before they’re temporarily gone.
I really love this one. Yeah, it gets a lot of hate but, I mean, I’m not sure what anyone was expecting from a non-Wes Craven sequel to an epic Wes Craven film? Obviously it’s not going to be on the same level but they must have known that when they made it because they took this in a whole new direction and I think it worked beautifully.
This time around, we follow Jesse as…
Review by Laurie Strode ★★★½ 3

A sequel worthy of praise. Mark Patton makes for an incredible scream queen and gives an emotionally wrenching performance. The Freddy gags are imaginative as usual, especially the line "You have the body, I have the brains!" and rips his scalp to reveal a throbbing brain. Pretty sick. It's not perfect like the first film obviously, and Freddy seems to be out of the picture for large portions but England's performance is nothing short of spectacular.

Recent reviews

Review by isabella ★★½

*gina linetti's voice* does anyone get a little bit of a gay vibe?
Review by angelo ★★

O onírico, tão importante no primeiro filme e essencial pro conceito do Freddy, se perde completamente aqui, toda a inventividade do Wes Craven deixada de lado pra dar origem a um terror oitentista padrão.
Não acho que Sholder deveria simplesmente repetir o filme anterior – por mais que em alguns momentos pareça que é exatamente o que ele tenta fazer –, mas sim experimentar criativamente o mundo de Craven. Até entendo esse subtexto da sexualidade do Jesse, mas mesmo com isso acho vago, uma nota de rodapé que tenta ressignificar e engradecer uma obra pequena.
Pra mim, os melhores momentos do anterior envolvem a inventividade das mortes, tudo muito gráfico. Aqui, acho que o que se sobressai é o uso de efeitos práticos nas transformações do Jesse, mas Freddy não apresenta muita ameaça dentro dos sonhos (tirando a cena de abertura e encerramento), sendo "apenas" um assassino com facas nos dedos.
Review by jay ★★★★★

i love this movie! 1st and 2nd elm street movies are perfect horror movies u cannot change my mind
Review by herhangibiri ★½

it is apperantly that she really loves him, hah.
Review by Gregório Ghizellini ★½

the mudge boy prequel with freddy krueger on it for some reason
Review by Gian ★★★★

Nessa continuação, acompanhamos Jesse (Mark Patton) que se mudou pra casa de Nancy do filme anterior e passa a ser assombrado por Freddy Krueger, que lhe persegue como motorista de ônibus em seus sonhos. Ele faz amizade com Grady (Robert Rusler) após brigarem e se apaixona por Lisa (Kim Myers) que descobre o diário de Nancy, detalhando as aparições de Krueger, a casa também começa a esquentar matando o periquito de Jesse. Na noite seguinte, ele sonha com Freddy que deseja possuir seu corpo pra poder matar na vida real e pra se manter acordado, Jesse começa a vagar pelas ruas à noite encontrando seu professor, Schneider (Marshall Bell), numa balada gay. Freddy mata ele no chuveiro e Jesse vê…
Review by alan ★★★½

now that i'm older i realize the gay subtext and i guess it works. the story is interesting and kind of messy but i admire they went with something different, it's very effective as a stand-alone film.
Review by darling ★★★

freddy krueger homophobic
Review by Ovejero ★★★★

Pesadilla en Elm street 2, la venganza de Freddy (1985 Estados Unidos, terror, slasher)
.
Una familia llega a una casa en la que cinco años antes se habían cometido varios crímenes. Poco después, el hijo comienza a tener unas horribles pesadillas que le empujan al asesinato.
.
El patito feo de la saga, la incomprendida, para mí, una puta maravilla, no diré que es mi favorita, pero no es la peor ni mucho menos!! Me flipa esta peli, desde el bailecito, hasta el "nacimiento" de Freddy! Una joya que muchos no disfrutan solo por ser la secuela, pero es muy muy muy disfrutable!!! Joyaza! Le clavo un 8 y no me pongo ni colorao!!
.
#cine #cinedeculto #cineclasico #cinedelos80 #80s #pesadillaenelmstreet #nigthmareofelmstreet #freddykrueger #freddy #freddysrevenge
Review by Cinemageek1984 ★★

Probably my least favourite out of the series it has it moments but sorry dream warriors is far better
Review by Pedro Lubschinski ★★

Eu gosto da relação que estabelece entre Freddy e Jesse, com o vilão precisando do rapaz para cometer os assassinatos, mas também criando um tipo de laço bizarro de companheirismo, com direito a tentativas de isolar ao máximo o protagonista de qualquer contato matando professor, melhor amigo e qualquer um que se coloque no caminho.
A atmosfera da primeira metade é interessante, talvez até mais pesada que a do primeiro filme, mas do meio pro fim vira uma bagunça sem tamanho com cenas que parecem meio de improviso, incluindo o grande clímax numa festa na piscina que tinha muito potencial.
PS: A mocinha beijando Freddy para chegar em Jesse é daquelas coisas memoráveis.
Review by auspices ★★

I did not expect the bird to explode