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Oct 30, 2019 · “Nightmare 2” has since become a cult classic, often called the gayest horror film ever made. Horror has always used genre tropes to explore societal ills, repressed identities, and otherness.
Feb 29, 2020 · 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
Oct 5, 2019 · For decades, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge has been scorned by many horror fans as among the worst of the franchise because it's "the gay one." But in recent years, a queer cult following has arisen around the 1985 slasher sequel that centered on a Final Boy played by Mark Patton, whose rising star was derailed by its infamy.
Sep 19, 2019 · Instead, the actor found himself at the center of one of the gayest horror films ever made, a fate that was not kind to a closeted young man in the 1980s.
- Jude Dry
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street. 2019 | USA | 100 min. 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.
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 ...
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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.
