A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

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🎙️ EPISODE 583: 10.25.22 After throughly enjoying the original, I was prepared for anything in Part 2. However, directed by a MovieJeff.com favorite — Jack Sholder (see reviews for the vastly underrated films 12:01 and The Hidden) — I had fairly high hopes. And by golly, this delivered. I spent a good chunk of the podcast going over the film's homoerotic themes and subtexts, so I won't belabor them again here. This is a good sequel in many ways, but the best thing it has going is that it doesn't just rehash the plot of the original. I've decided, as a form of decree, to not get into the 'rules' of how all the supernatural stuff is supposed to operate in any of this movies. I think the viewer's best bet is to simply submit to the strangeness of it all and embrace an "anything goes" philosophy.

The original is far more fucked up and bloody but this one has more goofy 80s moments, for sure. Where the key to defeat Freddy in Part 1 was to have no fear, the secret here is love and that really works against the overall lighter backdrop (but don't get me wrong, there's still plenty of bonkers shit here, like spontaneously combusting parakeets and an S&M gym teacher getting whipped by possessed towels in the locker room). For years I've heard about the genius of Part 3, so I was worried this one was gonna be a dud. But that isn't the case. It's a better than solid entry that completely stands on its own.

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⫷ EPISODE 582 - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 584 ⫸

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (stylized on-screen as A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge) is a 1985 American supernatural slasher film directed by Jack Sholder and written by David Chaskin. It stars Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Robert Rusler. It is the second installment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film follows Jesse Walsh, a teenager who begins having recurring nightmares about Freddy Krueger after moving into the former home of Nancy Thompson from the first film. It was released on November 1, 1985.