Does anyone here like NOES 2:Freddy's Revenge???

I very much do. Always have.

Yeah. Have always been a fan of this one. It has a superb intro, Freddy is still creepy as hell and it's all so deliciously 80s. Never understood all the hate that gets directed at it.

I enjoy it, but I do tend to laugh at it quite a bit. It seems to be the cheapest and most poorly made of the series, with poor production values and shoddy directing.. outside of some solid effects.

Also, the gay not-so-under--tones are a bit distracting and do get laughable. At the time it may have been difficult, but if the intention was for the movie to be about the character, and side characters, to be gay then it would have been in its best interest to be clear about that and not pretend that he was romantically interested in thar Meryl Streep lookalike from Seinfeld.

A lot of the logic of what's actually going doesn't make much sense at all, and the gym teacher stuff is ludicrous and bizarre. It's all too stupid for me to fully like it, but it's entertaining, and that opening sequence is actually rather good and is very surreal and evocative of what the character is all about. So it's not all bad.

Yes.

I have fond memories of seeing this in a theater with my friends, a month after seeing the first one on cable TV. The school bus scene is excellent. I know now about the gay undertones, but back then, none of us had a clue and never noticed. We were so innocent in the 80's! Not sure how I could have missed them, especially the gym teacher stuff. Now, it's obvious but doesn't take away from the movie. I read that the lead actor who played Jesse, Mark Patton, was actually gay in reality. The director denied any gay subtext and tried to blame Mark, years later, he admitted he did include it.

"You are all my children now!"

Freddy was badass af in that scene. No one liners, just evil menace.

I Think the directing is shoddy in some parts. It never quite works the surrealism angles the way the best of the series does, and some very simple kitchen table scenes are very amateurish. We may be talking about the same thing when you say it's TV-movie-ish, but certain things like basic shot selection and flat lighting, and poor juxtaposition shouldn't really cost all that much.

As far as the gay undertones going unnoticed, I probably wouldn't have thought much about if I had seen it when I was much younger, but it's hard to imagine seeing the main character wander in his subconscious into an S&M leather bar in the middle of the night and run into his gym teacher dressed like the lead singer from Judas Priest who then brings him to their high school in the middle of the night for physical punishment (What the fuck!?!?) and then get tied up in the showers and towel whipped til his ass is raw... and not think it was a little gay.

And I'm sure there were homophobic complaints against the movie, but my issue with that aspect is that it was really goofy, and it didn't have the convictions to actually go with the concept that was actually there. I think a high school character struggling with and being afriad of being gay is a solid foundation for a Freddy Kruger movie. Him exploiting those fears could make for a great story actually. I just don't think it was handled well at all.


Some solid set pieces though. Especially the opening sequence and the one effect where Freddy emerges, 'coming-out' if you will, from the lead character...