A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2 : Freddy's Revenge

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A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2 : Freddy’s Revenge
A Smart Egg Pictures Presentation
Film Length : 82 minutes
Film Certificate : 18 (UK)
Produced : 1986
RRP : ŁDELETED
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Others in the series : Nightmare 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, New Nightmare.

"Five more years have passed and the children are sleeping peacefully again on Elm Street. Freddy Kruegar is just a fading memory - Nancy is gone - the nightmare is dead. Jesse Walsh is the new kid in town. His family have just moved into a new house... on Elm Street. The dream can fade, but it will never go away as Jesse is about to find out..." In the second Nightmare movie, this ‘kid’, Jesse gets possessed by Freddy, who uses him to get near the other teenagers of Elm Street. Like the original, you don’t clearly get a look at Freddy’s face, and it retains a similar feel to the original, although the end to this film is quite disappointing. A high point of the movie is when Freddy appears at a pool party and kills a few of the people who are trying to escape, while Jesse is trying to protect his bird - although I wouldn’t protect her at all - she looks like a cow.

8.0 out of 10

By Mickey Durneme

Robert Englund on A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2

"Nightmare 2 is a very creepy, very kinky film. It reverses the first one - instead of having a teenage girl in jeopardy, we have a bisexual male, and this factor is exploited by Freddy. There’s lot’s of stuff implied with the S&M bar, stringing up the coach in the shower room in a bondage situation, and going to his boy friend’s house for protection - the two of them take their clothes off as much as possible. All that adolescent mad teenage hormone stuff is explored, which of course Freddy is privy to."
"Our films are not slashers. I think that there is something missing in American culture, and Nightmare on Elm Street fills that need."

" A lot of Freddy’s humour was encouraged by Wes in Nightmare 1, and they put a lot of the humour back in the sequel."

Wes Craven on A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2

"I think the film is intact, and it makes the statement I started out to make. I never intended to make a sequel."

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