On This Day: November 1, 1985 — A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge Opens
On November 1, 1985, New Line Cinema released A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge in theaters, just eleven months after the original film made Freddy Krueger a horror icon. It starred Mark Patton as Jesse Walsh, the genre’s first male “final girl,” and became infamous for a screenplay packed with gay subtext that…