Extra firm hold • Was "Nightmare on Elm Street 2" Gay?

Was "Nightmare on Elm Street 2" Gay?

A frequent debate in gay pop culture circles is this: Just how “gay” was 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (the first Elm Street sequel)? The imagery in the movie makes it seem unmistakably gay — but the filmmakers have all long denied that that was their intention. Now a terrific new documentary on the Elm Street film franchise, Never Sleep Again, The Elm Street Legacy, definitively answers the question with interviews with almost everyone involved: yes, it was incredibly gay. The movie’s original tag-line was, “The man of your dreams is back,” with Jesse, holding a girl, staring terrified into a mirror.

“We’ve always pussy-footed around this,” says the screenwriter, David Chaskin, finally admitting that his script was gay from the beginning. “It was supposed to be subtext. … I thought about guys being unsure of their sexuality, and I thought, ‘Well, that’s pretty scary.’ … I kind of think it was this subliminal thing going on in [the director] Jack’s mind where he didn’t realize it, but everything he did amplified it.”

SO gay. Totally having an Elm street marathon this weekend. Gonna see if I can rope a boy into it, then we can scream-sex later - that’s where you just lie on top of each other motionless and scream.

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