In a nutshell the story of “Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge” is as follows

A male teenager named Jesse who’s a high school wrestler moves into the house where a lot of the original “Nightmare On Elm Street” took place with his family and he gets Nancy’s old room. In her closet, (and his) he finds her diary containing her secrets about the nightmares she had. He soon has the revelation he’s having the same dreams as Nancy and runs to his parents screaming that he’s ” becoming NANCY” and his parents don’t believe him and then get mad at him.

This is bizarrely as subtle as this movie gets.

From there Jesse’s S&M gym teacher stares at him working out only to later run into him in a gay leather bar  (Don’t ask me how or why there is a leather bar in Springdale) ) and they end up in back in the school gym where the teacher ends up getting snapped with wet towels and attacked by his own (basket) balls.

We also have Jesse’s “Risky Business” dance scene where Jesse bumps, grinds and holds a phallic like object in front of his crotch while wearing the gayest 80’s sunglasses ever and then we have his “bromance” (And lets be honest this was the 80’s and it wasn’t a “bromance” it was a “brokeback-nance”) with his best friend that has such gayly suggestive lines as:

Jesse:  “Something is trying to get inside my body.”
Grady:  “And you want to sleep with me?”

And in a somewhat unsurprising (after watching his performance) and ironic twist Mark Patton, who plays Jesse, was a living as a closeted gay man during that film’s production and now refer’s to himself as the “First Male Scream Queen” (Although I am sure that Roddy McDowell would beg to differ.)

All in all NES2FR is the gayest unintentional horror movie EVER!  Or was it intentional?  Conflicting stories muddle this point.

Well whatever its worth a watch for Homoween. Hell, it  even even has Hope Lange, TV’s Ghost and Mrs. Muir, playing Jesse’s mom!