“ Part 2 has a really interesting bisexual, psychological thing going for it. As far as famously homoerotic sequences in seemingly “straight” ’80s movies go, nothing will ever top the sweaty and shirtless fighter pilots bouncing around the sand to Kenny Loggins’s “Playing With the Boys” in Top Gun‘s unforgettable beach volleyball battle.īut as Robert Englund - the man who donned Freddy Krueger’s murderous razor-claw glove to torment teens for eight installments of Nightmare on Elm Street - reminds us, the franchise’s first sequel, Freddy’s Revenge (1985), belongs in the same conversation.
