A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

Plot synopsis:
It has been five years since Nancy Thompson waged her last battle with Freddy Krueger in that sinister house on Elm Street.The Walsh family- Jesse, a seventeen year old with his father, mother and sister, Angela- has just moved in. Right off the top Jesse starts having bad dreams. His parents assume this is due to the pressure of being the "new kid in town." Jesse knows otherwise. Somthing evil is alive in this house.The signs are clear but disturbing. The house becomes unbearably hot suddenly on one of the coolest nights of the year. Appliances take on a mentality of their own, and abruptly burst into flames. The pet parakeet has an anxiety attack and turns into a roman candle.Jesse turns to Lisa, his new girlfriend, to try and figure out what's happening. They piece together assorted rumours and old newspaper clippings of the house's homicidal past, and discover the grisly details about the local child-murderer Freddy Krueger, who was burned to death by town citizens years ago.Meanwhile, Jesse's dreams are turning frighteningly real, and perhaps blurring into reality itself. Freddy Krueger appears in the darkness, muttering black threats about the "plans" he has for Jesse. Lisa tells Jesse that he's just having a series of intense psychic episodes, but something tells him the situation is far more odious. Slowly, he feels himself succumbing to Freddy, and his own darker impulses rising within.In a bloody nightmare, Jesse finds himself observing the brutal slaying of his gym teacher, Coach Schneider. The next day, he learns that the murder has, in fact, occured. Jesse is convinced that it wasn't Freddy Krueger but himself who was the murderer. The fear starts to build inside Jesse like never before. He feels his sanity starting to unhinge.Panic-stricken, Jesse cuts himself off from his family and friends. But Lisa seeks him out and refuses to leave, comforting him. Jesse begins to relax. They start to make love when, abruptly, Freddy siezes hold of Jesse: a long-tongued demon is suddenly staring hungrily at Lisa. Fearing for her, Jesse tears imself away and runs outside, leaving Lisa in tears.Jesse visits his old friend, Grady, and begs him to stay awake with him. He tries to tell Grady about Freddy's possession of his body, but his friend shrugs and dozes off. Soon after, Jesse doubles over in terrible pain, and Grady wakes up to see him being ripped apart by a savage force: a beast within, Freddy Krueger, clawing it's way out. The glistening killer emerges and eyes Grady. Grady screams and tries to run out of the room. The door is locked. Freddy reaches out and, within seconds, Grady slumps to the floor, blank-eyed, wasted. And there, standing over Grady's body, is Jesse.He finds Lisa and falls into her arms, bloody and agonizing over Grady's murder. Lisa listens with numbing realisation: these aren't just dreams, and Freddy is no shadow. As Jesse feels another transformation coming on, he warns Lisa to run away. But she stands by, trying to help him fight it. Still, Freddy wins out.Freddy attacks Lisa and begins chasing her through the house. In his clutches, Lisa begs for her life and pleads with Jesse to come through. Poised for the kill, Freddy is about to slash at her....when something stops him. A glint of recognition in his eyes, his features contorting into confusion. Freddy screams out and runs away from Lisa and into the night.A rampage of terror follows. Freddy invades a pool party, boils the pool water and spreads flames everywhere, slashing at random at the young party guests. Lisa's father attempts to fire at Freddy with a shoutgun but Lisa, knowing it is really Jesse, stops him. Freddy turns and stalks away, right through a hedge fence.Lisa runs to the old power plant where Krueger used to work, thinking she might save Jesse there. She finds him and tells him that she loves him and that he can fight from the inside. She then removes Freddy's hat and kisses him. Freddy begins to lose control and begins to weaken, as Jesse feels an inner strength of his own welling inside him. As the power plant begins to burn to the ground, Freddy himself starts burning and finally gives up his possession of Jesse's body. After he dies, the rest of the power plant suddenly extinguishes. Just when Lisa thinks it is all over, Freddy's burnt corpse begins to move and Jesse crawls out of Freddy's ashes. The horror is over, not with a bang but with a whisper.The following Monday, Jesse goes back to school. He climbs the bus, finally relieved that it is all over. When the bus begins traveling too fast, Jesse panics and jumps up, only to find out there is nothing wrong; the bus is coming to its regular stop. As he and Lisa rest at ease, Freddy's glove bursts through their friend Kerry's chest and the bus speeds off the main road and into the open land, just like in Jesse's nightmares.... Freddy is back again!

Tags: gothic, murder, violence, horror, psychedelic, revenge

Review:
Wes Craven refused to work on this film because he never wanted or intended A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) to become an ongoing franchise (and even wanted the first film to have a happy ending), and also because he didn't like the idea of Freddy manipulating the protagonist into committing the murders.
Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 (1985) was the second film in the Freddy Krueger series.
The first of the Elm Street sequels is a bit different than the other films of the series, but it's not nearly as bad as some critics say.Young man (whose family has moved into the Elm Street house) is terrorized by chuckling Freddy, who wants to use him to do his dirty work.'Elm Street 2 is a fairly entertaining sequel directed by B movie maker Jack Sholder.
Many say that this movie has homosexual themes and granted star Mark Patton does spend much of the movie semi-naked, but the theme is a bit of a stretch.Robert Englund makes a welcomed return as Freddy, while the rest of the cast does decent performances.All around, a good sequel that hasn't really gotten critical justice.Followed by the superior Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987).*** out of ****.
When the Walsh's move to the Elm Street, the teenager Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) has a creepy nightmare with a burned man wearing a glove with blades called Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) that tells him that Jesse has the body and he has the brain.
Lisa finds the diary of Nancy hidden in a locker while Jesse is possessed by Freddy Krueger that uses him to kill his victims.This sequel to the classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is underrated in IMDb. The story about possession is more romantic with the love of Lisa for Jesse, has plot holes but is also entertaining, with the use of great special effects.
Now that Nightmare is up to seven or eight sequels, while Friday The 13th is up to ten (and counting), it must be hard to look back on the days when horror films tried to be vaguely original or even different.
but it also wasn't a good decision either because id much prefer the dream demon premise) and have Freddy trying to possess a kid named Jesse's body to kill in the real world again.
But she may be too late when he does enter Jesse's body and is after her and all the rest of the kids at Jesse's high school.A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge isn't bad, just compared to the series, yeah, it's the worst in that category.
But just think about what A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge was compared too with it's first film that was an ultimate classic.
The original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is still to me one of the scariest and best horror films there is, as well as a truly great film in its own right and introduced us to one of the genre's most iconic villains in Freddy Krueger.
It is always difficult to do a sequel that lives up to a film as good as 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' let alone one to be on the same level.'A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge' is not to me the dreadful film as reputed, but, while its attempts to do something different is admirable, it should have been much better than it turned out to be.
The ending to the original "A Nightmare On Elm Street" was actually changed so that Freddy could come back giving us the sequels expected from a slasher movie.
"A Nightmare On Elm Street: Freddy's Revenge" is a pretty good sequel in all fairness.
A new family has moved into Nancy Thompson's old house and the son (Mark Patton) begins having dreams of Freddy, who wants to use him to do more killing in the real world.
In this installment, he is concentrating his energy on Jesse Walsh and attempting to enter into the real world by taking over Jesse's body.There are quite a few scary scenes in the film if you're a horror fan like me who is willing to suspend your disbelief when viewing.
And Mark Patton and his co-stars do a good job with their characters.Like all horror movies, the ending is a bit ambiguous as the lines between fantasy and reality become blurred and you're wondering whether what is happening is real or all in the mind of one of the characters; but horror has it's own reasons for doing things.
Since Freddy wanted to use his body to control him and being in the real world, where he could kill again.Directed by Jack Sholder (Wishmaster 2:Evil Never Dies, Alone in the Dark, The Hidden) made a worthy if different follow up to the original.
After reading several reviews for "Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge", most of which being quite poor, I was a bit wary whether or not to see this film.
You can't deny that Wes Craven's original "Nightmare on Elm Street" was horror of great significance and, although dreadfully overrated, it was a pretty clever and spooky film that introduced the legendary icon of Freddy Krueger.
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, tells the story of a new family that's moved into Nancy Thompson's house from the first film.
I normally love it when the effects look very cheesy, but it just didn't work out for me this time.I guess if you're a Nightmare on Elm Street fan then this movie fan then this could be a little interesting.
Here are it's good points (in my opinion): the absolutely terrific score (much better than the admittedly more well-recognised, but cheesily synthy, original score), 'Freddy's' least cheesy and most terrifying performance, some genuinely creepy bits (e.g. the little girl's room)- not overproduced clunker 'nightmare' sequences (as in the rest of the sequels).
Although this sequel may have upset a lot of the fans of the original because it did not bring back Nancy, or any of the other characters from the first Nightmare on Elm Street (except Freddy Krueger), it did provide an interesting take on the character of Freddy Krueger and his representation of the main character Jesse's (Mark Patton) worst nightmare.
Although not as good as the first Freddy's Revenge is an interesting film filled with creepy direction,good atmosphere,edgy subject matter and special effects.Set five years after the original Nightmare,Freddy's Revenge tells the story of a teenager named Jesse Walsh(Mark Patten)who's family has moved into Nancy Thompson's house(from the original)on Elm Street.
With help of his friend Lisa(Kim Myers),Jesse must figure out how to destroy Freddy and save his soul.In between the excellent classic original A Nightmare On Elm Street and the brilliant second sequel A Nightmare On Elm Street 3:Dream Warriors came A Nightmare On Elm Street 2:Freddy's Revenge,a film that has divided Elm Street fans since it's release.
Set five years after the events of the original "Nightmare", it sees a young man, Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) move with his family into Nancy Thompson's old house, and good old Freddy (Robert Englund) tries a different tack in this story: possessing Jesse's body to enable him to kill all the teenagers outside of the dream world, thereby ignoring the rule Wes Craven had put in place that Freddy could *only* exist in dreams.
The original Nightmare on Elm street movie was iconic and so we were expecting big things from the follow up movie but unfortunately we were given a movie that really was a rehash of the first one and the only new thing that we got was Freddy possessing our main lead but besides that we weren't given something inventive.
Moving into a new house on Elm Street, a teens' recurring nightmares about a scarred boogeyman are leading him to be the personal target of Freddy Krueger's resurrection and forces his friends to stop it from happening again.This one wasn't all that bad but is a slightly lower sequel.
The beginning on the school-bus is a great way to start a movie and keep those from the first one remembering who Freddy is driving the panicked kids out into the desert where the ground gives way and he stalks them while left atop a dangerous looking precipice, the scenes of Freddy tormenting him and psychologically going after him and his family as well as how he becomes part of the possession is all kinds of fun The party scene, which is the film's great highlight, is definitely all sorts of fun here with the realistic way it plays out, from the house stalking and then out among the guests which is what really makes this one fun with all sorts of great action chasing them around and getting the panic of the scene down nicely, Also really great is that Freddy becomes a bit more of a psychological villain here,taking a little bit longer to start his rampage, but gets a great rampage full of great and interesting kills.
Had this film been critically successful, I don't think I would've minded the franchise becoming a stream of sequels about different teens moving into the house and discovering Freddy in new and terrifying ways.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge comes as a surprise for anyone expecting the series to keep with its reality-bending, surrealist brand of horror that Wes Craven pioneered for the first film.
However, little did people know at the time of its release, this is the film that would hereby kickoff a series of sequels to the classic 1984 film by playing "musical directors," with New Line Cinema acquiring new directors and writers to to etch their own sort of spin on Craven's classic, dream-haunter.Out of all the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, the first one has a chance at being the most substantial one in the regard that the subtext is more interesting than anything in the way of character relations or legitimate scares.
There's no validity to the suspense, nor the immersive buildup here that was in the first film, so what entails is a film that has a real identity crisis in terms of whether or not it caters to substance or caters to its genre.A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge pleasantly takes the series in a different, deeper direction, but its lack of scares and sudden change of rules as to how and why Freddy haunts his victims is a bit jarring, especially when Freddy is such a non-character in his own film.Starring: Mark Patton Kim Myers, Robert Englund, and Robert Rusler.
Mark Patton as Jesse is just dreadful, his performance was so over the top that I almost wanted to just take this movie out of the DVD player, but I could not because I wanted to see Freddy Krueger.The rest of the stuff in the movie is alright, but like I said the acting is just dreadful and Robert Englund really saved me from hating this movie.Overall, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE does a few things right, but is just outweighed by a few major flaws.
Because, believe it or not, the film was written with a 'homosexual subtext' and, if you look closely, you may just spot it.I don't know whether that's the main reason why people think that Part II is probably the most inferior of all the sequels, but there's many an Elm Street fan who skips this one over the rest.
Look for the scene where Freddy is clawing his way out of our leads body.I guess the only thing I didn't like about this movie was the lead character of Jessy.
I reviewed this movie in 2004, which meant I was 14 years old and thought most everything was very good, so I have decided to come back and re-review this movie to give my response on the whole picture, more mature and more than willing to judge appropriately on this film.NOES 2: Freddy's Revenge is the sequel to Wes Craven's classic movie about the killer who murdered a select set of teenagers in their dreams.
The movie plods along with very little actual gore until the infamous pool party scene, but even that seems held back and lazily directed (plus you'll probably still be wondering just what the hell is going on when you're watching...more than the other sequels, Nightmare 2 completely tramples on the rules Craven set down in the original).
Originally, as a kid, I liked this, but then I didn't really have much ability to discern between this or any other Freddy film.Later, a couple of years ago, I revisited the movie and it seemed so bad I couldn't even watch all of it.
If anything, this film is the most in keeping with the spirit of the original Nightmare On Elm Street than any of the other sequels, even if it does disobey the cardinal rule of Freddy: he exists ONLY in our dreams.It worked quite well for me.(It must be mentioned however that those theories that this film is a metaphor for a young male coming to terms with his homosexuality are REMARKABLY well founded.
ham-handed piece of sublime gay cinema to ever enter the mainstream horror genre.other than that, i would only recommend this movie to the people who've already seen it for the obvious reasons, i.e., nightmare on elm street fans and people looking for a slapstick (oooops!) gross out film.
This film was in no way like Part 1, in this, Freddy tries to use the new kid on the block, Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) to do his dirty-work for him.
If you like horror movies and you don't mind a whole lot of homosexual undertones then A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE may be worth checking out as long as you don't expect it to be on par with the first 'NIGHTMARE'.
Rated R for Violence/Gore,Language and Some Nudity.The first Nightmare On Elm Street is one of my favorite horror movies.It had an original plot and was very entertaining.Now this is the first of the many sequels that followed it.Sure its not as good as the first and its the second worst one in the series(in my opinion).But its still an entertaining and good 1980's slasher flick.The cast is different from the first film and neither of the actors or actresses from this film return for any of the sequels.In this film, a family moves into the house that Nancy lived in during the first film.Freddy possesses the teenager who lives in the house and makes him do his killings for him.With the help of his girlfriend, he must stop Freddy.Though the sequels are known for their comedy, this film wasn't meant to be a comedy.Yet there are a few laugh out loud scenes in it.Nightmare On Elm Street 2 is an alright sequel that slasher film fans should enjoy..
But seriously though, I never suspected that the sequel would be anywhere as good as the the first "FILM", especially with it being an 80s horror movie series, but in this case it was.
Freddy suppose to be a dream stalker not posseting body's and killing people.The film has a good stuff the reasons why I like this film a lot, why it is in my top 5 favorite Elm Street franchise.
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) is still a good horror movie umm for the year 1985.
Released in 1985 and directed by Jack Sholder, "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" takes place five years after the original movie from the previous year.
A Mixed Bag,But Not Bad. This movie was just okay,not great,not bad.First,the pros,the beginning,it was suspenseful and very creative.I like the fact that they tried to be different with the gay undertones,it really sets the film apart from the other sequels,and makes the main character more interesting.All of the stupid moments give the film a "so bad it's good" feeling,and make it highly entertaining.The characters are decently developed,the main character,played by Mark Patton is especially well acted.I thought the story was decent,there were some cool scenes and the effects were good.The best thing though,Robert Englund,he is still very dark and sinister.Now,the cons,I felt that the ending was very generic,and anticlimactic.The scares,they were very stupid and ridiculous(but hilarious).I feel like there wasn't enough kills or Freddy,in the first movie,it didn't matter,but here,it did.The worst part though,the tone,it tries to be serious at times,but the movie feels like an 80s sitcom.Nightmare 2 is better than others in the franchise,but not the best..
In the world of horror, "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" has become something of a joke in recent years.
It was a sequel that never quite struck a chord with audiences in the same way that other entries of the series were able to, and sits as one of the black sheep of the entire franchise.We follow Jesse (Mark Patton), who is plagued with nightmares about the burned murderer Freddy (Robert Englund) after moving into the former home of original hero Nancy Thompson.
4/4-->Overall: 69/100If you forget the fact that this film is the sequel to 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' or if you see it before that one, you will probably say that it is a pretty good horror flick.
4/4-->Overall: 69/100If you forget the fact that this film is the sequel to 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' or if you see it before that one, you will probably say that it is a pretty good horror flick.
The party massacre is interesting, and it's one of the most infamous A Nightmare On Elm Street moments.This movie could end with the ANOES franchise, but the original film paved the road for many sequels.
A nightmare on elm street part 2 is a good sequel but i was little bit let down with not much gore in the film but anyway there was some very funny scene like the P:E teacher geting his bum slap with the towel i was laughing so hard it was funny.