31 Days of Horror
Tucker and Jeff are attempting to each watch one horror movie for every day in October, as detailed in the upcoming Cobra episode of If We Made It. We will be posting their adventures here where we encourage you to share your thoughts on their selections and discuss your own Halloween movie experiences.
Day 3 (Tucker): A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
After watching this again, I have concluded that the much ballyhooed gay subtext is not mere subtext, but the main focus of this sequel. Mark Patton stars as Jesse, a recent transplant to Elm Street, and a young man struggling with his own homosexuality. This film knows what it's doing and knows what it is about even if its director, Jack Sholder, does not. Here's a clip from the excellent series retrospective Never Sleep Again where the issue is addressed.
But, leather-clad gym teachers are not the only reason to check out Freddy's Revenge. There's some great gore, some not so great gore, Kim Myers, those weird human-faced dogs, and a riveting opening credit sequence in which Robert Englund sans make-up drives a school bus and drops off some forty year-olds posing as teenagers. Check it out. It's fantastic.
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