‘Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street’: Film Review

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In 1985, New Line rushed out a sequel to its breakout horror hit of the prior year. But while commercially successful enough, “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge” was initially disliked …

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Breaking from slasher-genre norms, its protagonist wasn’t a “Final Girl” but a cute, blond, “sensitive” high school boy for whom Robert Englund’s murderous Freddy often seemed to be a metaphor: A flaming little secret Jesse doesn’t want to “come out,” and which only the love of the girl next door can save him from. Leadwas a closeted gay actor who considered the film’s ambivalent sexual agenda publicly “outed” him.

Patton’s starring role in a “Nightmare” followup seemed a big break, and indeed he got a couple high-profile TV parts the next year. But he confusingly blames the movie for ending his career even as he admits he left the business for other reasons , and despite insisting he was fine with his sexual identity from an early point.

He sees himself as an activist, and indeed “Revenge” wound up being an important film among many young gays for whom it was an early, and unexpected, representation of sexual “difference.” But as he travels to conventions and revival screenings milking his residual minor celebrity, there doesn’t seem to be any special articulacy or altruism about HIV and gay issues happening. It’s all about him.

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