A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) | One, Two, Freddy's Coming For Your Closet

Red Rose Film Club

In this episode, Hal and Craig discuss the sequel to Wes Craven's seminal horror classic. Hal takes Craig to school, dissecting this often-overlooked (and underrated) horror sequel and how it has become a classic in queer cinema for its often obvious (but sometimes quite subtle) metaphors to queer identity and escaping the closet in 1980s America. Discussion also includes:

• The merits of the more gloopy, wet iterations of Freddy Krueger's makeup;
• The United Auto Workers Strike;
• Hollywood scabs like gross little puke Bill Maher;
• Nicole Holofcener's new film YOU HURT MY FEELINGS; and
• Our Top 3 American Horror franchises.

Sources and Links

• Intercept Artifcle - "U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout...": https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pakistan-ukraine-arms-imf/
• "Will the real Robert Neville please, come out?..." by Jamil Khader: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23469816/
• "Creeper Bogeyman: Cultural Narratives of Gay as Monstrous" by S.F. Juarez: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004360150_011
• "4 The Monster and the Homosexual" by Harry M. Benshoff: https://doi.org/10.7560/771376-006
• "Frame variation in child protectionist claims: Constructions of gay men and transgender women as strangers" by Amy L. Stone: https://academic.oup.com/sf/article/97/3/1155/5066469