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LuciusMcGibbonOct 27, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The main thing you hear about this movie is how homoerotic it is, and frankly aside from the coach scene and the 'trying to get inside me' line, you have to dig a bit to find lasting overtones.

The reason I don't dig this movie is it's just not Freddy's MO to kill people in the real world with random slashing. The hero's nightmares are just a series of go-nowhere scenes to build a generic sense of horror, as opposed to the setting for Freddy's inventive murder attempts. There's no personality to this Freddy, and most of his screen time is literally just mugging for the camera. The true-love climax is anything but climactic, and to just add to the overall feeling of canonical detachment, the original piano score is nowhere to be found. Also, I'll pass on the gloveless finger razors, thanks.

A strong 3 overall, still not as incompetently made as your average mid-80's horror sequel. Plus one for the effects on the exposed brain scene.… Expand

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Rcavey92212Mar 16, 2020

Growing up I was all about the final girls. So this chapter in my favorite franchise wasn't at the top of my list. But as I grew up, realized I was gay and started to hear about the films in your face subtext. This became one of my favoriteGrowing up I was all about the final girls. So this chapter in my favorite franchise wasn't at the top of my list. But as I grew up, realized I was gay and started to hear about the films in your face subtext. This became one of my favorite entries. Centering around Jesse played by a cute, likable Mark Patton who moves into Nancy's house. Before he knows it our favorite charasmatic villain starts haunting him in hopes of possessing him so he can be reborn into the real world. The film is flooded with the queer goods but in addition to all that it's actually a really unique genre film. Robert Englund is truly fantastic as Freddy he's darker, sexual, perverted and disturbing. The performances are pretty solid all around. Also impressive is Kim Myers as Tina our final girl next to our final boy. She's vulnerable, relatable and strong. Although the director still denies his homoerotic intentions. I mean the guy has a scene in a gay s&m bar and let's not even talk about when the coach is killed. Really it's quite obvious but the film is really creepy, fun and entertaining and has aged really well. It's more complex and relevant now than ever.

Budget: $3m
Domestic Box Office: $30m
Worldwide Box Office: $30m

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Doppio2diavoloJun 22, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Holy **** what a letdown. I like the idea of Freddy taking control of someone to kill everyone but oh God the only scene I will remember is the pool one, everything else is so bad excecuted… Expand

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Josephgamers65Jun 15, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddy's Revenge we are introduced to Jesse he starts to have bad dreams, Nightmares and he is trying to figure out who is doing it while Lisa is trying to help Jesse through it and Jesse won't let her so she had to go to the power plant to figure it out which she does The good is Jesse and Lisa I thought there were good as what they were given for the second installment of the franchise the whole Pool scene in this movie was good liked that a lot Freddy Krueger in the first act is playing around with Jesse was funny like that the mixed is Ron as a character was used decently in the whole movie I thought he was the main character in the first act but he was not the bad is Ken Walsh and Cheryl Walsh they don't do much they don't believe anything was going all which was different from the first because the first they were worried about what was going on and the Coach was just annoying spying on the kids and just bullying other kids the thing I don't like is the ending it drags a little bit and freddy has to stay in a body was not a good idea to me but all round second installment in the franchise was good not too many issues all round I give A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddy's Revenge an B-… Expand

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robertoiglesiasApr 26, 2018

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 might be strange, but it can be interesting and scary.

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babygorgeousOct 14, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. i enjoyed this flick because the acting was great and Freddy was still terrifying… Expand

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MoviezNPMar 7, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Tell me, people! Please! Tell me! Tell me that this movie was a made for TV parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street which took itself too seriously, which accidentally got a mainstream release. Please!!
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Bad : Seriously, what the f**k was this bulls**t? Does it even know what are the rules of this fictional universe? I hated the ending of the first movie for two reasons - producers sticking their f**king nose in the film and forceful franchising. You know why? Because we get films full of **** like this. To this date, I have not been able to figure out what the f**k was going on in this film. As a teen, I had a stupid fan fiction where Freddy is not a dream demon, but a simple ghost possessing people, just like in this film. My idea was very ridiculous, but it was way better than this film. You know what made the first one so creepy and disturbing, yet enjoyable? It was the feeling of presence of the entity named Freddy Krueger rather than his actual on screen presence. You may put any spin on the ending of the first film as per your wish, but absolutely none of them would ever be able to explain this bulls**t. How can Freddy possess people and do all the s**t that other generic ghosts do? Why? It just takes the stupid idea or belief of "anything can happen in a horror movie, because it is a horror movie" too seriously. Not only it isn't loyal to the first film, it is totally weird. Freddy appears during a pool party and literally kills people in the real world. He, then, vanishes as a sparkle of fire or something like that. He is Krueger, alright? He can torment people, whom he wishes to kill, in their dreams and gets the job done. Why would he need to possess anyone even if he could? Alright, he was being an a**h*le. But why the f**k he would he want to let people know that he really exists, or he did it? These are some of the weirdest, naive and pathetic plot holes this movie has. And believe me, there are many others. And, it may be just me, but there is a prominence of homosexuality in this film. A lot of it. Jesse dances like a lunatic and closes the drawer with his a$$ which looks ridiculously gay. The murder of Jesse's coach was so much the same. When Jesse finds out that Freddy is gonna kill his girl, he goes to Grady, Grady gives a gay dialogue. That made me think that the movie ends with Freddy leaving Jesse's body after Lisa kisses him, because Jesse was able to accept his heterosexuality. That's just completely insane and bizarre. I would've accepted this **** if it had no tie ups with the first one. But, it has a diary written by Nancy which works as a plot device. As ridiculous as it may sound, it's also totally nonsensical. Nancy was constantly trying to fight Freddy in the first film, she was watching TV and listening to music and stuffs like that. Okay, maybe, just maybe, she was writing a diary to keep herself awake. You think she wrote down literally everything that would serve as a convenience for this film? What the f**k movie? There are no enjoyable dynamic between Jesse and Grady or between Jesse and Lisa. This movie is a blant and stupid teenage fan fiction with Freddy Krueger jinxed in it. The movie shows more of what an apparently high teen does when he is alone more than a horror film, and I just mean horror films in general. It has pool party, dancing when you're alone, cheesy and funny as **** sequences that were supposed to be terrifying, etc. At least, as a consolation, it could've had some disturbing kills, but it is underwhelming in that part too. It is an unintentional insult to gay community. It doesn't even feel like a bad horror film. It's a teenage romance with some gruesome images. Unlike in the first one, it has no feeling of presence of Freddy Krueger when it is going on. Apart from this, the coach is a cringe character. The bird annihilation scene was a cringe scene. This film completely subdues Freddy and the original film. The slapstick part was worth a sarcastic laugh. It was a cashgrab. Nothing else. .
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Conclusion : This movie is simply a big gigantic and complex network of sewage lines with all kinds of s**t in it. .
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Score : absolute 0/10
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JPKJul 4, 2019

Meh
It has some good scares, But it hugely lacks the magic of the original.

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Jim222001Feb 6, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The worst of the sequels. It does try something different but it is ridiculous. Freddy rips through a teens body multiple times to get into the real world. With the teen perfectly fine after each time it happens.
Yet this has *** on my cable rating and part 4 has **. Which is a much better sequel. The gay movie community loves the movie. They just overlook that it isn’t very good.… Expand

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Sosmooth1982Jan 5, 2023

My least favorite out of the series. Didn't like this one because Freddy wasn't really killing any one until the end. He used a live human to kill for him. So it was kind of dumb.

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JLauSep 25, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Freddy possesses a kid who moves into the house from the first film, making him kill others, mostly at a pool party, but his girlfriend stands by him throughout and helps him make it to the end.… Expand

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kyle20ellisMar 26, 2022

The original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is still to me one of the scariest and best horror films there is, as well as a truly great film in its own right and introduced us to one of the genre's most iconic villains in Freddy Krueger. It isThe original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is still to me one of the scariest and best horror films there is, as well as a truly great film in its own right and introduced us to one of the genre's most iconic villains in Freddy Krueger. It is always difficult to do a sequel that lives up to a film as good as 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' let alone one to be on the same level.

'A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge' is not to me the dreadful film as reputed, but, while its attempts to do something different is admirable, it should have been much better than it turned out to be. It is very difficult to not feel disappointed when you inevitably compare 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' to its first sequel and find that the drop in quality is so significant and hard to ignore. Whether 'Freddy's Revenge' is the worst of the series is debatable, to me and many others it is one of the weaker ones.

'Freddy's Revenge' is not a complete waste of time. It starts off very promisingly, with the bus scene is thrillingly unsettling. Easily the film's scariest moment and the scene one remembers the most. Robert Englund is still very freaky and shows why Freddy is so iconic as a villain, he may not be quite as terrifying but the material isn't as strong here and he is still highly effective.

It's not a bad-looking film, there is a slickness to it and there are some nightmarish effects. There are some eerie moments, though none of the rest of the film lives up to the bus scene, and some amusing dark humour. The music is suitably haunting.

However, there are also a fair share of problems. The scares don't come enough, and while there are effective ones there are also just as many that are perfunctory and pretty tame by 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series standards. Credit is due for trying to do something different and there are parts that do intrigue. A tighter pace and less pedestrian direction would have made the execution better, as well as trying to do less and focus more on the quality of the scares and how the story is told.

Jesse is such a dull damp squib of a character who lacks a quick-thinking or logical brain let alone any kind of presence. The one-note expressionless acting of Mark Patton accentuates this. The rest of the cast are nowhere near as bad, but when it comes to the acting the only one to properly rise above the material is Englund. Lastly, the ending is a slap in the face and really undoes Freddy's character, he would never do what he does at the end and it doesn't make sense for him to do it.

Overall, not that bad but could have been much better. 5/10 Bethany Cox… Expand