A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

For the director to deny what was going on, does that mean the screenwriter was playing tricks on him and he didn't understand his own film? Perhaps then, Jack Sholder was the wrong choice for director if he was easily fooled. He made a better and nifty film a couple of years later with The Hidden. Heck, John Carpenter—a far superior film-maker—was approached to direct Top Gun-86', picked up on the homoeroticism in it's script and didn't want to do it. Tony Scott made it work and look at the popularity and following that film has now, so Carpenter may be homophobic, but at least he had the insight to see and read between the lines. Otherwise, the director is just going through the mechanical motions of what the script sets out, without having any passion or thoughtful perception of what they are really making.  Pretty much like most horror film directors today.