"At face value, Freddy's Revenge is the story of Jesse (Mark Patton), a teenage boy increasingly plagued by Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) after his family has moved into (he finds out) the same house that Nancy Thompson lived in from the first film. Freddy wants to possess Jesse's body, and the sleepless and isolated Jesse can really only turn to Lisa (Kim Myers), his friend and arguable love interest."
"Superficially heterosexual love subplots aside, the film genuinely is laden with homoerotic subtext. One line sees Freddy tell Jesse, suggestively, "I need you, Jesse," and "you've got the body, I've got the brain." In another, Jesse screams of Freddy, "he's inside me and he wants to take me again!" Jesse also has a budding but arguably homoerotic friendship with Grady (Robert Rusler), who pulls Jesse's pants down on a field before wrestling with him on the ground (pants still down)."
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge follows Jesse (Mark Patton), a teenage boy increasingly tormented by Freddy Krueger after moving into Nancy Thompson's former house. Freddy seeks to possess Jesse's body while Jesse leans on Lisa (Kim Myers) to help expel him. The film contains persistent homoerotic subtext manifested in dialogue, physical encounters, and staged set pieces. Key moments include Freddy's suggestive lines, Jesse's anguished cry about being taken, a pants-down wrestling scene with Grady, a compelled visit to a gay club, and a sexually charged gym murder of Coach Schneider. The intentionality of the subtext remains debated.
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