A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

R

1985

1h 25m

Horror

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Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) moves with his family into the home of the lone survivor from a series of attacks by dream-stalking monster Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). There, Jesse is bedeviled by nightmares and inexplicably violent impulses. It turns out Freddy needs a host body to carry out his gruesome vendetta against the youth of Springwood, Ohio. While Freddy gains influence, Jesse and his girlfriend, Lisa (Kim Myers), race against the clock trying to figure out what's going on.

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Critics Consensus

An intriguing subtext of repressed sexuality gives Freddy's Revenge some texture, but the Nightmare loses its edge in a sequel that lacks convincing performances or memorable scares.

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

05/03/2016

The sequel is clunky, sluggish, poorly cast, not funny, and worst of all, not scary. And it all but dispenses with what made the first film scary to begin with.

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Kim Newman

Empire Magazine

04/05/2010

1/5

Possibly the lamest of all the sequels, although Five and Six later set the bar particularly low.

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Variety Staff

Variety

03/26/2009

Episodic treatment is punched up by an imaginative series of special effects.

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Heather Wixson

Dread Central

Apr 28

2.5/5

I’ll always be a proponent of practical over CG visual effects whenever possible, and while I wasn’t a fan of Freddy Krueger’s make-up design in this sequel, the rest of the special effects remain top-notch even after almost 26 years now.

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Carson Timar

ClapperCast

Nov 1

This is such a prime example of what this franchise could have been. Using this character to explore repression is such a strong and moving concept.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Sep 29

6/10

Faced with every temptation to simply duplicate the original’s formula with a different group of teenage victims, Freddy’s Revenge tries something new. The results may be uneven, but I will always defend uneven and inventive over smooth but conservative.

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jonathan

Oct 16

Favorite elm street movie. Was a total shock to see it was going to be back in theaters

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Uld F

@RT10700606 Jul 26

Of the first three, this second installment was weak; I didn't like it as much as the others. The quality drops a bit, yet it still holds its own as one of the best horror movies of the 80s. It is far superior in quality to all the others in the saga.

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Charles T

@CharlesGaming1000 Jul 14

Well I wouldn’t say this movie is shit, its just not very good

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Anthony H

@Hardy Jul 13

Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is a weird story that is very drawn out and dull. The movie makes little sense with its weird possession story. This film doesn’t even become a little interesting until about the last 30 minutes, where we have some true killing and scary scenes, but it ends on this weird cliffhanger that also makes little sense. This was a hard watch.

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diogo13 T

@Tua_mera Jul 11

Todo o meu respeito pela minha rainha dos gritos.

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Romas M

@Romas Jul 6

Greetings from Lithuania. "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" (1985) is a sequel to a far superior "Nightmare on Elm Street". This sequel despite its many shortcomings was kinda fun and mostly entertaining film for me. I do like practical effects, make up is incredible, acting was OK. Screenplay tried to be different from a first film - gone are the dream sequence (mostly) and trey tried to do a bit different take. At its very short 1 h 22 min run time this film wasn't boring and had good time for most part. The ending while interesting doesn't live up to the first part by far. Overall, second film isn't bad by any means, and I like most of it. But it is just to weird and script while different from first film isn't that good either. Still, a fun, bloody and goory film.

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Jack Sholder

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Mark Patton

Jesse Walsh

Kim Myers

Lisa Webber

Robert Rusler

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Synopsis

Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) moves with his family into the home of the lone survivor from a series of attacks by dream-stalking monster Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). There, Jesse is bedeviled by nightmares and inexplicably violent impulses. It turns out Freddy needs a host body to carry out his gruesome vendetta against the youth of Springwood, Ohio. While Freddy gains influence, Jesse and his girlfriend, Lisa (Kim Myers), race against the clock trying to figure out what's going on.

Director: Jack Sholder
Producer: Robert Shaye
Screenwriter: Wes Craven
Distributor: Image Entertainment Inc., New Line Cinema, Media Home Entertainment
Production Co: New Line Cinema
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 1, 1985, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $29.9M
Runtime: 1h 25m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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