A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) dir. Jack Sholder, New Line Cinema/Heron Communications/Smart Egg Pictures
Funny that we end our look back at the Man of Your Dreams with the second one, but here we are.
It's been five years since the first one. The Thompson family has moved out of Elm Street, and the Walshe family has moved in. Teenage son Jesse (Mark Patton) isn't adjusting too well as he keeps getting plagued by increasingly gruesome nightmares. He dismisses them as just bad dreams, at least until the fires start up around the house.
At school things aren't much better. Jesse's caught the eye of Lisa (Kim Myers) but he's too nervous to do much of anything. He's also on the radar of Grady (Robert Rustler), a fellow jock who can go either way on the friend/foe count and also Coach Schneider (Marshall Bell) who, shall we say, like's 'em young?
Things get a bit more clearer later that night. During a vivid dream, Jesse runs into a certain burned man (Robert Englund) feeding body parts into a furnace. Freddy makes it clear he wants Jesse's body, but not how you're thinking.
More dreams follow. Jesse finds Nancy's diary and starts drawing some conclusions but in the meantime during a fugue state Jesse gets picked up by Coach at a local bar. Schneider takes him back to the school but Freddy pops up and does the coach in the shower room.
With a party at Lisa's house looming, can Jesse figure out what's going on?
Not terrible, but there are problems. Freddy's powers were ill-defined in the first film, yet here he can do whatever he wants. Jesse's sexuality is also played with a quite a bit yet they pull back at the last second. Not the worse entry in the series but disappointing all the same.
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