1985
Jack Sholder
Jack Sholder
Its five years after the events of A Nightmare on Elm Street
and the Walsh family moves into the same home where Nancy battled Freddy Kruger
(Robert Englund). Jesse Walsh (Mark
Patton) begins to experience nightmares of Freddy directing him to kill. As Jesse falls further and further under the
control of Kruger, his would-be girlfriend, Lisa (Kim Myers), struggles to
grasp what’s happening to Jesse and stop it before it totally ruins her bitchin’
pool party.
A Nightmare on Elm
Street 2 has hands-down the best opening sequence of all the Nightmare
films, with the ground falling away under a school bus and leaving it teetering
on a single pillar of stone over a vast canyon. After that point your mileage may vary. It’s
certainly the weirdest of the Nightmare sequels; it doesn’t feel like the film that came before it or any of them after it (well… maybe New Nightmare (1994), a bit). It eschews elaborate nightmare set-pieces for a possession story. Much has been made
about the homoerotic subtext of the story; the director claims it was unintentional. Either way, it can be read as a clever satire about coming out of the closet being seen
as transforming into an uncontrollable monster in the eyes of everyone around
you, and only the kiss of a good woman can set it right. Possibly even more important: It has the only
exploding canary in the entire film series.
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