A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

Director:

Jack Sholder

Writers:

David Chaskin (written by) and
Wes Craven (characters)

Release Date:

1 November 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The first name in terror returns...

Plot:

A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him to continue his murdering in the real world.

Plot Keywords:

Nightmare | Teenage Boy | Freddy Krueger | Dream | Neighbor

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Mark Patton	...	Jesse Walsh
Kim Myers	...	Lisa Webber
Robert Rusler	...	Ron Grady
Clu Gulager	...	Ken Walsh
Hope Lange	...	Cheryl Walsh
Marshall Bell	...	Coach Schneider
Melinda O. Fee	...	Mrs. Webber
Tom McFadden	...	Mr. Webber (as Thom McFadden)
Sydney Walsh	...	Kerry
Robert Englund	...	Freddy Krueger
Edward Blackoff	...	Biology Teacher
Christie Clark	...	Angela Walsh
Lyman Ward	...	Mr. Grady
Donna Bruce	...	Mrs. Grady
Hart Sprager	...	Teacher

Also Known As:

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (Australia)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 (USA) (closing credits title)
A Hora do Pesadelo Parte 2: A Vingança de Freddy (Brazil) [pt]
Efialtis sto dromo me tis lefkes No 2 (Greece) [el]
Koszmar z ulicy Wiazów 2: Zemsta Freddy'ego (Poland) [pl]
La revanche de Freddy (France) [fr]
Nightmare 2 - Die Rache (West Germany) [de]
Nightmare II: la rivincita (Italy) [it]
Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 Freddy's Wraak (Belgium: English title) (festival title) [en]
Painajainen Elm Streetillä 2 - Fred (Finland) [fi]
Painajainen Elm Streetillä 2 - Freddyn kosto (Finland) [fi]
Pesadilla 2: La venganza de Freddy (Argentina) [es]
Pesadilla en Elm Street 2: la venganza de Freddy (Spain) [es]
Terror på Elm Street 2 (Sweden) [sv]
Terror på Elm Street 2 - Freddys hämnd (Sweden) [sv]

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:MA (re-rating 2005) | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Australia:M (TV rating) | Iceland:16 | Australia:R | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:M18 | Argentina:18 | Australia:R (original rating) | Canada:R | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | Mexico:C | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

1428 N. Genesee Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

The song "Touch Me," which is being played in Jesse's room, is an early (and slightly different) version of Cathy Dennis's #2 hit from the early 1990s.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Coach Schneider is supposedly stripped naked before he is whipped. However, in one shot he is still wearing pants. This is only noticeable in full-frame video versions.

Quotes:

Jesse Walsh: [Jessy is afraid and wants to sleep at Grady's house] Something is trying to get inside of me.
Ron Grady: Yeah it's female and it's waiting for you in the kabana, and you want to sleep with me.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Stephen King's World of Horror (1986) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Terror In My Heart

Spontaneous combustion-parakeets!!

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. It was obvious right from the start that none of the several sequels would ever live up to the original and this first attempt immediately confirms so. Despite a dazzling intro, showing a school bus racing through a nightmarish wasteland with Freddy at the wheel, this is a very tame and soft teenage-horror flick, completely lacking coherence and logic. The story supposedly takes place 5 years after the initial Elm Street events and the house where Nancy lived has been sold to the Walsh family. The adolescent son Jesse begins to suffer from nightmares in which Freddy Krueger orders him to kill in his shape. The screenplay is a series of stupidities and continuity errors but the whole things basically is an excuse to show fairly impressive visual effects, so who cares about the story anyways? Jesse's transformations into Freddy Krueger are well staged and the murders he commits are decently gore. Several sequences and scenery don't make the slightest bit of sense (exploding parakeets, guard dogs with children's faces…) and the suspense-elements of the original have vanished entirely. The acting is considerably good, even though the hero screams like a little girl and the heroine looks like Meryl Streep's younger sister. At least in this first sequel, Robert Englund doesn't constantly fire off unfunny and embarrassing one-liners.