Two, Freddy's Coming For You

Freddy's Revenge

This movie is probably considered by many to be the Mulligan of the Nightmare series.  It barely follows the original and hardly expands the mythos.  You could probably skip this one and watch the third movie, and not have any inpact on the story.  It's actually a lot worse than I remember.  It's a failure for really so many reasons.

I guess the big one is the paradigm shift.  The storytelling really doesn't follow the original.  There's really only two dream sequences in the film; the first and last scenes.  And they're pretty much the same scene.  It's more of an Amityville or Poltergeist type thing where a family moves into a haunted house, and the spirit is trying to make the residents murder people.  So instead of killing people in dreams, Freddy uses the protagonist, Jesse's, body to kill people in reality.

Also, when Freddy does take over Jesse's body, he acts completely out of character.  He runs around like a mischievous imp or The Leprechaun or something, and instead of his playful cat/mouse chase, he just stabs people that randomly get in front of him.  His powers throughout the film seem to be magically locking any door and making things so hot that they catch fire (even the pool)?

And I understand that Lisa loves Jesse and she knows he's going through some shit, but she's very tolerant of his douchey behavior throughout the film.  After he tells her he killed Ron, she's like, "Jesse it's OK."  Really?  It's fucking OK that he killed his best friend?  Even if she doesn't believe this, she doesn't seem very concerned with his confession.  And what's the deal with Jesse running away when he gets the 10-inch Freddy tongue?  I'm sure Lisa would be OK with that.  You gotta use that shit, son.

And to stop Freddy in this movie: love.  Lisa loves Jesse so much that he turns back from Freddy into Jesse.  That's way lamer than that apathy bullshit we had to deal with last movie.

A lot of people blame this movie's failure on the strong homosexual undertones, but I don't know.  The Jeepers Creepers movies were totally gay, and they were awesome.  I'm sure there are others if I really thought about it.  It's like when people are blaming gays for ruining the institution of marriage, when it's like: No.  Marriage always sucked.  Don't go blaming this on gay people.