A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge Official Fan Thread

[Spider-Fan]

Cinematic masterpiece of the 80's? NOES 2 was hot garbage.

 

[Mace Dolex]

That's a good list but also Jesse has alot of manuerisms to further drive the point ,lol.

More noticeable are his girly man screams

-after the opening Freddy nightmare we hear Jesse screaming in his room.

-when first confronted by Freddy and he peels part of his skull exposing his brain.

-when he's holding the Freddy glove and finds the gym teacher dead.

-not exactly a scream but when he tells his dad "you can't talk to me that way", usually the daughter of a family would talk back to their father.

 

[Venom75]

This film will always hold a special place for me because it's the first real horror film and Elm Street movie I saw,and it really got me into Freddy and the genre. However,for many years after I hated it and considered it one of the worst of the series. Recently,though I really developed a love for it. It has it's share of flaws,but the tone is still pretty dark and so is Freddy himself. His look is the best of the series. He looks pretty scary with a skull-like and demonic face. I also love the score. The gay overtones are so out there but it's not really something that bothers me much. I consider it to be in the middle of the pack. Not as good as the original and Dream Warriors,but no where near as horrible as the remake or Freddy's dead.

 

[The Joker]

A fan thread specifically for part 2? I love it. I always felt this one was underrated. Freddy was genuinely creepy in this, his make up looked great. Jessie and Lisa were likable protagonists. It was great that it was set in 1428 Elm Street again. The pool party massacre scene is one of the best scenes in the franchise, and who can forget the classic line "You are all my children now".

Not a perfect movie, but a darn good entry into the franchise, IMO.

 

[Thundarr]

I remember seeing this movie poster in the video store when I was a kid and being totally freaked out by it. I don't think I actually watched a Nightmare On Elm Street movie until I was at least 13 because of this poster.

I agree that this movie was totally underrated. People forget that these movies were never meant to be campy or silly. They were meant to scare the s**t out of you. And for all its faults, this movie did a pretty good job of doing just that.

 

[SuperBatman]

Okay here are a few.

1. Jesse sleep walking to a S&M club finding his male gym teacher there and the teacher making him go run laps at the gym? (how is that even possible? Teachers have no power outside of school.

2. The Gym teacher being naked for some reason and then tied up and whipped with a towel.

3. Alot of the dialogue the Jesse character says. For example, when talking about the temperature, he says "It's out as an oven on here" who says that?

4. Him dancing while cleaning his room to some girlie pop song and humping some little thing up and down in the air and butt bumping the dresser drawers closed.

5. And of course there is the part mention about him sneaking into his friends room and basically revealing himself so to speak.

NOES 2 was 87 mins and Freddy only appeared in 13 of those minutes.

Hmmm I haven't seen NOES 2 much lately but from what I recall I always thought he said Its hot as a oven in here.

 

[moviefreak]

That film came out in 1985, just a year after the first Nightmare. The first film was still fresh in my mind when I saw the second one. So I'm speaking as audience member who saw both in the original theatre runs. In both, almost everyone in the theatre jumped and yelled. LOL.

The first Nightmare was so original in term of ideas for horror movie and stuffs never seen before on screen like the ingenuous premise of a disfigured serial killer who lives in teenagers’ dreams. The second film more or less used similar formula as the first film though a drop in quality-wise, still Freddy Krueger was the standout in both film and in that time period he was still scary. Freddy grew progressively funnier and less frightening in later years.

Craven's 1980s horror was at its peak creativity, afterward it all downhill.

 

[Thundarr]

That film came out in 1985, just a year after the first Nightmare. The first film was still fresh in my mind when I saw the second one. So I'm speaking as audience member who saw both in the original theatre runs. In both, almost everyone in the theatre jumped and yelled. LOL.

The first Nightmare was so original in term of ideas for horror movie and stuffs never seen before on screen like the ingenuous premise of a disfigured serial killer who lives in teenagers’ dreams. The second film more or less used similar formula as the first film though a drop in quality-wise, still Freddy Krueger was the standout in both film and in that time period he was still scary. Freddy grew progressively funnier and less frightening in later years.

Craven's 1980s horror was at its peak creativity, afterward it all downhill.

I was too young to see the first two movies in theatres when they originally came out. However I will agree with you in their quality. The third movie had better visual effects that the second (or even the first for that matter), but it's where the series begins to stray from genuinely scary to campy. Part 2 never strayed, and thus is the better movie in my eyes.

 

[Mace Dolex]

Freddy's Revenge was my first ANOES that I saw, I actually didn't see them in order my viewing went like this, 2,4,5,3,1, Freddy's Dead, New Nightmare.

 

[Venom75]

One of my favorite shots from the film. Again,I LOVE Freddy's look!

 

[Nightmare]

Picked up this bad boy a few weeks ago.