#22 - A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
The poster for this film is way cooler than the movie itself. A new family moves in the house on Elm Street where Nancy lived in the first film. This time, Freddy stalks a teenage boy, Jesse, who is seriously confused about his sexuality. In Jesse's dreams, Freddy comes... and tries to get inside of him, until Jesse wakes up sweating and screaming like a little girl. In one dream sequence, Jesse goes to a gay S+M club where he meets his gym teacher, then they go back to the high school locker room and hit the showers. In another, Jesse literally runs away from having sex with his girlfriend to instead leap into bed with his shirtless best friend.
If you haven't seen this one, please know that I am not making this up, and that this really is the gayest of all the "Nightmare" movies. The writer has said that the homoerotic subtext was intentional, but that the director and cast didn't know about it until they saw the finished product. It's actually not a terrible film, although it pales in comparison to the original.
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