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Is it an oral sex innuendo? OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. The man who inspired a generation of bad dreams, Robert Englund, gets candid about Elm Street's LGBT fan base, the greatest gift director Wes Craven gave him, and the most terrifying time in his.

I remember wanting the audience to go crazy with that and playing with the fact that Freddy is in the libido. To hear Laguna Beach resident Robert Englund tell it, his Freddy Krueger movies could be removed from the horror shelves and placed in the gay cinema section instead.

Many classic horror movies are surrounded by some type of controversy, but A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge has been talked about for years regarding the queer subtext that's all over the film. Instead of Heather Langenkamp's final girl. Twitter: MatthewTCoker.

Starring Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, the film premiered inonly a year after the original. To hear Laguna Beach resident Robert Englund tell it, his Freddy Krueger movies could be removed from the horror shelves and placed in the gay cinema section instead.

Horror Homosexuality amp Freddy : A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge has become a homoerotic icon in queer cinema; here I'll examine queer themes in the film

He's in the subconscious and playing with it all the time. Is Freddy going to kiss him?

The embrace by gays emboldened Englund to intentionally amplify the gay subtext in the script for A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revengeespecially in the scenes with the Jesse Walsh character played by gay actor Mark Patton.

In that moment it's real.

Queer Themes in A : But it was not supposed to be a gay movie, and it derailed its gay star's life

Skip to content Matt Coker Posted on October 30, Matt Coker. He figured it was the fierceness of Nancy Thompson, as portrayed by Heather Langenkamp, that struck a chord. “I remember I went to a. He was exploiting that and teasing Mark's character with it.