This screening includes A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
- Date and time:
- Fri, March 11, 2016, From 9:30–10:57 pm
- Runtime:
- 1 hr 27 min
- Cost:
- Free, but ticketed
Series: Queer Disorientations
About A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
- Rating:
- Year Released:
- 1985
- Genres:
- Horror
- Metadata:
Continuing the dream-stalking antics of slasher Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge is a sequel of amplified gore, humor, and unexpectedly queer sexuality. Replacing the genre’s typical “Final Girl,” the film follows Jesse, a teenage boy who gets possessed by Freddy in his violent attempt at physical manifestation. Through tensions between dreams and reality, masculinity and victimhood, and pleasure and pain, Nightmare 2 works to destabilize notions of what popular horror cinema can and should be. Alex Swanson, a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies in The Media School at IU, will introduce the screening. Contains mature content. (35mm Presentation)