Ethers review of a nightmare on elm street part 2

A quick and crappy review of A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge.
Warning: there will be spoilers, although I wouldn’t worry much if I were you cause this movie is hardly worth seeing.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is a horror movie that was released in 1985. It has almost an hour and a half run time and some pretty garbage reviews, which are very understandable. Also, the effects aren’t exactly the best compared to today since it was made over 30 years ago, so I’ll be glossing over that. If I could sum this movie up in one sentence, it’d be “ok, I guess that happened” cause NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE. Seriously, I honestly gave up trying to understand what the fuck was happening about half way through the movie. It honestly seemed like a giant mess of ideas to me. But before I start ranting about this nonsensical movie I’ll give ya a quick run down of this movie. Our main character is Jesse, average high schooler who just moved into a house on elm street. He has a run in with ya boi Freddy Kruger in the basement and then shits starts gettin weird and freaky (not in a sexual way get your minds out of the gutter). Freddy starts doing some weird freaky magic bullshit and also possesses Jesse to kill people(I think. The movie isn’t too clear on much). Apparently when he possesses people it causes him to be able to turn that person into his own body and can materialize his signature claw out of thin air. Anyways he possesses Jesse every now n then to murder someone while Jesse has almost no clue what’s happening and everyone around him thinks he’s going fucking insane.

And that’s all there is to it. Now I’ll proceed to pick at random bits of the movie that I found mildly infuriating. Like the music. THE OVERUSE OF THE GODDAMN SUSPENSE MUSIC. Suspense music is fine, it can really help build up to something, but when the suspense track is only 30 seconds long and is on repeat for 5 mins while Jesse is taking a shower and a gym coach gets a bunch of gym equipment thrown at him by Freddy’s magic bullshit it gets pretty god damn annoying. Speaking of Freddy’s magical bullshit, there’s no limit to it. He can make water catch on fire, he can make birds explodes, he can walk through flames like a portal, he can throw stuff around and make people have nightmares about him. Explanation for this? None (maybe there was in the first movie I never actually watched it). Freddy is also immune to being stabbed which I’ll get to later.

But since we’re talking about Freddy let’s talk about the murders. So when Jesse was in the shower while the coach was being abused by Freddy, he was slashed in the back by Freddy and killed in front of Jesse. However this doesn’t make sense, cause Freddy needs to use Jesse as a vessel of sorts, yet he killed the coach while Jesse was watching? Makes sense right? Also, the coach was lightly slashed in the back yet died immediately. I understand that if you slash someone’s throat they die but why would slashing someone in the back lightly kill them immediately? There’s also another scene where Freddy is trying to kill the girl Jesse is in love with, but has an immense amount of trouble doing so. Apparently Freddy is weak to being hit by lamps, but when the girl stabs him he fine. GOD DOESNT THIS MOVIE MAKE SO MUCH SENSE? What makes me angrier about this scene is that the girl lives. Freddy could’ve easily killed her with some of his magic flame bull shit but nah, let’s keep her around so she can fuck up all Freddy’s plans later.

Moving on to something that’s more or less positive about this movie, how much it fucks with your head. Like seriously, this movie ain’t scary but HOLY BALLS are there some disturbing as scenes. Like watching Freddy pop out of Jesse’s stomach and proceed to kill someone. Or watching Freddy’s face melt away in flames to reveal Jesse beneath that fucked up face of his to HAVE JESSE HAVE TO PEAL OFF THE REST OF FREDDYS FLESH FROM HIMSELF. LIKE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. I was definitely shifting around in my seat during some of these scenes cause they’re really disturbing.  Then again the movie had its fair share of “scary” scenes that just turned out to be really fuckin cheesy.

That pretty much wraps up my basic thoughts and opinions on this trash bin. Would I recommend watching this movie? No. Would I show some disturbing scenes from this movie to friends to freak them out a little? Yes. Would I rather watch the emoji movie over this one? Debatable.

Also a friend gave me a quick run down of the movie and said it was a “pretty gay” movie (no he’s not saying gay as an insult like your average 10 year old), but there was a large lack of gayness. Really the only thing I found gay is jesse constantly being shirtless at night or him sleeping in a male friends room (only to have the friend murdered by Freddy).