Lyle's Everything Halloween Thread

[walrus]

The director must have been gay. It would be fine to have a gay main character... but they really hit you over the head with it! He literally stopped making out with his girlfriend to go sleep in the same room as his male friend, and his male friend is even like "ummm why are you here and not with your GF" hahaha. It really seemed the main purpose of the movie was to be very gay.

It was directed by Jack Sholder who idolized Jean Renoir (son of the famous painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir) both Sholder and Renoir directed many movies I've neither seen nor heard tell of. Jack Sholder has a son, so he may or may not be gay, but I find that most folks in the horror movie genre are the politically aware subversive type....see George Romero for example or John Carpenter. So that is probably why Jack Sholder got into directing Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and with the...well you can hardly call them undertones of homosexuality now can you? But with that being the case, I mean in the 1980's people were still of the belief that Elton John, Freddy Mercury, Rob Halford, et al were straight so now'a'days the gayness of that movie is really just wide open and out front but in the 1980's I guess that passed for "subtle".

I believe that Sholder used the gay angle with the lead character to parallel with Freddy Kruger living inside the gay character which is to say at that time it was not all that acceptable to be super gay out in public and so lots of gay people I guess figured they had something wrong with them, had to hide their true selves away from the public.....you know that kind of hamfisted political commentary.


It was an interesting take on the movie to say the least.

You are well versed in homosexuality, I'm impressed.

[El Kabong]

You are well versed in homosexuality, I'm impressed.

I make a point to try and understand cultures other than my own. Also having seen Nightmare on Elm Street 2 several times I asked a lot of the same questions vidgil asked about the movie and upon seeing Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (Video 2010) - IMDb as well as Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (2009) - IMDb a lot of those questions were answered from those documentaries.