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Summary: this movies doesn't get enough credit
Review: i really don't understand peoples obsession with the gay undertones. I really couldn't find any. If there were even any it was the bar scene. And although there was not alot of freddy, the mood was still dark and i liked that. Not many killings, but i liked the suspense...Everyone seems so prejudice on this movie!!Some liked it- but it doesn't have to be so overly nitpicked, does it??
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Summary: BETTER THAN THE FIRST!
Review: I know that the original NOES was possibly the best to most people here. But the only reason for that, I believe, is because it's scarier and the blood and gore is A LOT! NOES2 sometimes lacks some of these things but who cares? It's still got the good ol' nightmarish atmosphere that all the others (including the first) have! Mark Patton did an excellent job with the role as Jessie, a new kid who moves to Elm Street with his family and stays at the exact same house that Nancy and her family used to live in during the gruesome bizzare incidents. Once again, Freddy is back! This time, he's using Jessie as a link in order to cross through his dreams and into the REAL world! From there, all hell breaks loose!! (especially at the pool party scene. That was the craziest!)The rest of the film may sometimes seem TOO mediocre, but it all comes together and picks up near the end! Robert Englund's second act as the disfigured psycho killer is 10x better than the first, and all the other actors did a good job too! :) My fav characters were both Jessie and Lisa, they really moved the film along nicely and should have recieved an award for their performances! So why not give it a second chance? It's really not as bad as SOME people say. SWEET DREAMS!
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Summary: DON'T FALL ASLEEP!!!
Review: I heard a lot of talk about how bad this movie was. I watched it, and it was pretty good!
Sure it isn't as good as the first but it was still good in my opinion. Anyway its about a new kid that has moved on elm st. into the house that Nancy lived in. He starts having nightmares about Freddy!!! Well Freddy decides to try and possess this kid so that he can kill more!
Not bad at all! It is scary, and has humour!
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Summary: Before Krueger became a clown...
Review: Nightmare 2 is often regarded as one of the weaker entries in the series, and it's easy to see why. It's the most different of the Nightmare films, with more emotional baggage than fans prefer, but the effort should be applauded. For one, the film is very stylish, the atmospherics owing a lot to Dario Argento's work and a host of other modern horror films. The colors are rich and expressionistitc, most notably Freddy's boilerroom in the climax. Composer Christopher Young's score is a serious contribution and helps to lift the film beyond the usual stalk-and-slash cliches. His later Hellraiser scores would raise the stock of those films immensely. Freddy's Revenge is not too original a title, but it's accurate as we pick up five years after the original Nightmare. Somenody has finally moved into the original Nightmare house, and soon teenager Jesse is having Freddy Krueger nightmares and waking up with night terrors. He finds Nancy's diary from the original (left behind by a dim real estate agent) and he slowly learns the Freddy story. This time Freddy needs a human body to do his killing out in the real world (though it's never explained why). Horror movie sequels (particularly from the 1980s-onward) usually take elements of well-known films and weave a story around the main attraction (Freddy, Jason, Michael Meyers, Pinhead) since their duty is to satisfy the fans. But like many films of its ilk Nightmare 2 is saved by atmospherics. There's also a little bit more going on here than in most Nightmare films in terms of thematic content, including a creepy homoerotic element to the proceedings that is not appealing per se, but does indicate that the writers were already trying to do something different with the character. The lead actor is bit too intense, like he's on some serious Method technique, but who can fault anyone for trying in these movies? As for Freddy, he's creepy for sure, and he continues his cheap 'boo' scares--jumping out of dark corners, appearing in front of people running away from him, etc. Also, Freddy's ability to exit dreamland and enter reality seems to hinge mostly on plot convenience so that there's usually little point in thinking about it too much. By the end Nightmare 2 resembles an updated old-fashioned horror film where love conquers all, hence the disdain series fans look at this movie with. It's understandable, but I found Nightmare 2 a welcome change that would not have been possible later in the series when Freddy became a wise-cracking parody of himself. Credit to the makeup and effects crew here as well; Freddy looks downright nasty, and his brain-exposure bit ('You've got the body', etc.) is very well done. Also, the film makes liberal use of the 'It's only a dream' device so that we don't know when Jesse is dreaming and when he's going nuts. They're making some kind of statement here on homo-eroticism, including the S&M gym teacher (!) that most viewers would rather not think about, and for good reason. Oddly enough though, it also gives Freddy some kind of social angle. In the end, there isn't a lot of followthrough, however, the filmmakers need to satisfy genre addicts while at the same time trying to keep things fresh (for more sequels).
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Summary: VERY GOOD
Review: CHILLING AND COOL GRUSOME AND GROSS EFFECTS CREEPY MUSIC GREAT ACTORS GREAT NIGHTMARE SEQUEL CRITICS ENJOYED THE GORY FRIGHTFEST BUT HARD CORE FANS OF THE FIRST DIDNT ENJOY IT VERY MUCH MOSTLY BECAUSE THE NONRETURNOF NANCY BUT JESSE AND LISA ARE SOME OF MY FAVOURITE MOVIE CHARACTERS
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Summary: Not to Bad, But Doesn't Feel Like A Nightmare Movie
Review: This movie REALLY did not feel like a Nightmare movie. Why? Well, where are the Nightmares? Everything is done while the lead actor is awake! And Freddy at times, feels like he could have just been written out of the plot completely and made this in to a good ol' haunted house movie. Another reason this movie doesn't really float is its pretty extreme homo-erotic edge. Yes, homo-erotic. Many scenes just seem to odd. Like the whole gym teacher side story (I could have done without the kinky S&M style death scene for him). Now all of this could have been harmless if it wasn't for one thing, and this one is major. The leads in the movie are... TERRIBLE! They over act horribly and just drag this through the soap opera mud! Many times I found myself laughing at how ridiculous some of the reactions where during the movie. Plus the movie lacked any real scares. As a normal movie... its watchable. As a Nightmare movie... its horrible. If you want to watch the series so that the stories connect, than skip this and go right to Dream Warriors. Its just a weak WEAK nightmare movie.
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Summary: Excating Not Scary
Review: Part two isn't so scary. It tells about a boy who lives in that house where happened strange things. Then he starts to see nightmares too. Well, there's hot and strange things happen. There's nothing scary in the beginning. In the end starts happening when the youngsters are in a party. Fred controls the boy or does he? There is a fight, who will win a boy or Fred? The end is exating but not scary.
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Summary: Nightmare 2 doesn't scare like the original
Review: Freddy's Revenge falls under the box-office cracks with its worthless script. Freddy comes back to higher his body count but fails in creating a good story to follow by. Just record it on T.V. don't bother throwing away 10 bucks to buy it.
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Summary: Nightmare 2 Review
Review: Poor sequel to Wes Craven's brilliant original film. In this awful follow-up, they decide that rather than following the format laid down in the original, they want to go and make Freddy into what they believe he should be. Rather than a film about a maniac terrorizing teens in their dreams, this is pretty much a really bad haunted house picture. This one has a new kid (Mark Patton) moving into the house from the original. For some reason, Freddy is invading his body and subsquentaly driving him into insanity. There are a few cool sequences with a school bus and a pool party but the story really kills this one before it even gets started. A thinly-disguised bisexual subplot is thrown in for reasons unknown and never really fully explained.
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Summary: ehhh
Review: This is not one of the better movies in the Nightmare on Elm Street series but is a must have for an fan of Freddy Krueger
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