A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge Nov 30, 2017 23:42:44 GMT

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Post by Toasted Cheese on Nov 30, 2017 23:42:44 GMT

Nov 29, 2017 23:39:44 GMT jamesbamesy said:

Honestly, I thought this film was okay. Sure, it's crazy to imagine that this was the first sequel when you compare it to the other films (especially Dream Warriors, which is a far more definitive sequel to Nightmare 1) and that it kind of ruined the concept of Freddy by taking him out of the dream world, but it's a harmless sequel. It at least has a lot of the same tones in the original and Freddy is still quite creepy for the most part. It's definitely the black sheep of the franchise, though. A 6/10 is what I give it.

The film was also alluding to the possession of Jesse by Freddy, therefore, Jesse would have been the one doing the actual killing and not Freddy. He was the only one with the nightmares and Freddy's victims were dying in reality, not their own dream state. This makes it stand out somewhat differently to the approach used in the first, and after Schneider's and Grady's deaths, we see a human Jesse with Freddy's finger knives which he found in the boiler in his house basement.

Nancy did also bring Freddy out of her dream state into reality in the first so she could defeat him. I thought this was one of the weakest parts of the first entry, with all those silly traps and devices she concocted in such a short amount of time and then we just have Freddy running around comically after her in the house getting caught up in them. It was a creepier and better sequence in 2, with Freddy\Jesse attacking the teens at the pool party, compared to the climax of the first. It then got a bit weak again, with the steelworks sequence.

The ending of both film's doesn't make much sense either, with the dream state sequences. As we hear and learn in 2 and 3 though, Nancy was screwed up, and as for Jesse, well he would have been arrested and would not be freed from the evil he inflicted via Freddy. Jesse's gf's motivations were also ambiguous. Did she want him to fight his homosexuality so he would desire her, or was she just helping him to come out and accept who he was?

At least Part 3, made a more solid attempt with the dream state sequences and it was a nice touch how they all went into together to defeat Freddy and "only within" the dream state. With a little help from Neil and Nancy's dad of course. It all came across as so much more effective and still manged to be fresh and original.