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There’s another even better sequence, most likely inspired by AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON’s transformation, where Freddy tears out from inside Jesse. It would be just like Freddy to be going around without a skull. Very realistic assuming he doesn’t have a skull. I always liked the part where he peels the top of his head off to reveal his brain. That’s like my dreams because dreams are stream-of-consciousness, they don’t have continuity to them. I like the constant changes like this – first Jesse is watching Freddy doing something, then all the sudden it’s him doing it himself. She has a cut on her leg that’s suddenly infested with ants, and then it isn’t. There’s also a monstrous rat that gets eaten by a monstrous cat. And they don’t attack her, they just growl like tigers. I can’t believe I don’t remember this because it’s probaly the coolest thing in the movie, but she gets confronted by two dobermans with some sort of human (possibly baby) faces. There’s some really surreal imagery, especially when Jesse’s girlfriend Lisa goes to Freddy’s boiler room. Instead of just bad dreams there are weird things that happen in reality, like one of their pet birds kills the other one, then it gets out and flies around angrily until it explodes into flames. Unfortunately this climaxes at a pool party so the flame imagery gets pretty silly – the pool boils, some hot dogs catch on fire, 25-30 year olds playing high school kids run around screaming. The house is constantly too hot, things melt, things catch on fire. So I think it’s a good spin on the concept of the original.Īnother idea they use that’s not in the other movies is that Freddy sort of haunts the place by making everything hot, like his boiler room or like him when he was on fire. Alot of people have some violent anger in them at that age, that’s why you get all these school shootings.

And it’s playing off of his deep felt hatred of people like his asshole gym teacher. He’s afraid that he is murdering people without realizing it. Watching it this time I realize this is actually a really clever idea for the sequel because it makes it a different type of psychological horror – the fear of what you could do to others instead of the fear of what others could do to you.

The different twist is that instead of attacking this kid Jesse in his dreams and hurting him for real Jesse has dreams about Freddy attacking other people, then all the sudden realizes that it’s him wearing the glove. At the end of part 1 Nancy had dis-believed him out of existence (at least before the shock-ending – we never really know what happened with that) so now his way to come back is through this kid who lives in Nancy’s house (although it sure doesn’t look like the same house) and found her diary (that we never saw her writing in before). Freddy had not yet become a comedian, so although he’s probaly on screen a little more than in part 1 he’s still pretty scary and mysterious. They ended up figuring out the sequel formula in part 3 and they stuck with that for a while so part 2 is now kind of the odd man out when you look back at it.īut watching it again now I realize that’s a good thing. I always thought FREDDY’S REVENGE was the worst of the ELM STREET pictures, a pretty common view. Not to be pedantic but, come on dude, titles are important. It really is not revenge when you do it to a stranger who never did anything to you before and is not related to anyone who did anything to you before. In this one he’s just messing with a new kid who moves into the same house. Technically Freddy already got his revenge in part 1 by going after the children of the people who burned him alive.

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