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Oct 30, 2019 · As the first male scream queen, or “final boy,” Patton’s character Jesse was quite a radical presence onscreen at the time. Unfortunately, he paid the price for such progress. His story is a ...
Feb 29, 2020 · ‘Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street’: Film Review The legacy of the "gayest horror film ever" is probed in a doc dominated by its principal interviewee to the brink of vanity project-dom.
- Dennis Harvey
ABOUT THE FILM. LONG SYNOPSIS. At the time of release, The Advocate dubbed 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge the gayest horror film ever made. For the film’s closeted young star, Mark Patton, such a tag was a stark reminder about the homophobia rampant in Hollywood at the time—and the painful experience he had making the high-profile film and living through the ...
Jun 21, 2020 · This element has been a talking point ever since the film came out. Now we have a documentary devoted to discussing it. As though realising that discussion of the film’s gay content is fairly limited, most of Scream Queen is focused on Mark Patton, the actor who played the hero in Freddy’s Revenge. (The documentary is also produced by Patton).
Jun 20, 2020 · The documentary, directed by Roman Chimienti and Tyler Jensen, celebrates ‘the gayest horror movie ever made’, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge; or more specifically the movie’s lead – the first EVER Final Boy, Jesse Walsh – played by Mark Patton. It analyzes the movie’s perceived homoerotic subtext and tells Mark Patton’s story: the impact the movie had on his ...
- Frankie Torok
Sep 19, 2019 · For the first time in the 30 years since the film’s release, Patton is telling his story on his own terms in a new documentary titled “Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street.” My ...
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Some have called it the ‘gayest horror movie ever made!’ But for the star of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Mark Patton, it was anything but a dream come true. 30 years after its initial release, Patton is hitting the road to set the record straight about the experience that ended his career just as it was about to take off.
