Seán here, full of the joys of spring and delighted to be helming the reboot of a franchise we all love here at the Film Experience... April Showers! Kicking off the month is a healthy dose of heavy-handed homoerotic horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge - what else!
There has been plenty written about the deep homoerotic subtext in the maligned sequel, directed by not-then-out gay director Jack Sholder. And while I'm not one to nit-pick the verisimilitude of a film about a dead child killer who seeks revenge in teenagers' dreams, Elm Street 2 didn't seem interested in following any of the rules outlined in the first film. If you're looking for an actual sequel, check out A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, for the original Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and future Oscar Winner and Nominee, Patricia Arquette and Laurence "Larry" Fishburne.
But back to the shower: Mean old leather daddy Coach Schneider has been unloading on poor fit-boys Jesse and Ron. Jesse does... something - does it matter? - that merits him having to stay behind and hit the showers all alone. Unfortunately, Jesse has been possesed by Freddy Kruger, and to enact the aforementioned Revenge, strips Coach Schneider down, shackles him up and partakes in some Advanced BDSM.
The result... well, take a look.
P.S. to add to the queerness, Jesse was played by Mark Patton, who is now openly gay and living with HIV. When doing the horror conventions, he donates his fees to LGBT charities, which makes him an all round sound guy.