Review – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

The parade of adolescent sexuality continues in this first sequel. Here Freddy is at his height as crude symbol of the rampaging teenage id, as he uses a repressed youth’s secret hates and passions as a window into the real world. Though not quite up to the snuff of the original, Krueger still retains a fair amount of ghoulish menace, not yet quite the cartoon character that he would become in the later sequels. Some pet murder, but otherwise another standard slasher movie. Mildly amusing