Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

Saw Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge.  This is the gay Nightmare on Elm Street movie.  The protagonist is a new kid in town who has moved into the house of the protagonist girl from the first movie.  He starts having nightmares where he is possessed by evil spirit of Freddy Krueger who compels him to murder and do other evil things, such as pick up his gym teacher in a gay bar.

The main character guy has a girl who he's interested in but all of his attempts at flirting with her end in him becoming overcome by him "monstrous" inner nature and rushing off to a male friend's house.  The film is very easily read as a gay teen struggling with self-acceptance.  There's also some shirtless dudes, which is nice.

I only watched this film because of its notorious gaiety.  I wouldn't recommend it unless you're very into that kind of thing.  The horror such as it is is fairly limp and the plot is forgettable (again, I'm working from memory here and had to look up the plot details on Wikipedia.)  The gay subtext is slightly dated, this being the 1980s and all, and it also ruined the main character actor's career (he was typecast as a gay guy which there are not many roles for even to this day.)

I was hoping for some crazy dream visuals but I really don't recall very much.  It's kind of a weird oddity of a horror film - only interesting if you're a series fan or into gay movies from the 80s or something.