FREDDY'S (NOT) DEAD: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
“He’s inside me, and he wants to take me again!”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, serial killers, gore, blood, child killers, death, homophobia, trauma.
When we watched the original Nightmare on Elm Street for the show, we were only in our 2nd season and were still relative horror newbies. But it’s finally time to explore the entire Fred Krueger canon, and this week we start with a film that has no right to be as interesting and good as it is. The acting still isn’t great, the dialogue is atrocious, and the producer made the entire process a nightmare for everyone involved. But the intentional undercurrents of homoeroticism coupled with a totally different take on Freddy’s abilities makes this a fun but flawed entry in the canon. We’re talking about Freddy Knife Hands in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “Time Has Come Today” written by Joseph Chambers and Willie Chambers, and performed by The Chambers Brothers. Copyright 1966, 1967 Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
Excerpt taken from “Main Title” to the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, composed by Christopher Young. Copyright 1986 New Line Cinema Corporation.
Excerpt taken from the film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Copyright 1985 New Line Productions, Inc.
Excerpt taken from “Dream Warriors,” written by George Lynch and Jeff Pilson and performed by Dokken. Copyright 1987 Elektra/Asylum Records.
