the first sequel of a film like this a nightmare on elm street be probably the most difficult task and especially if you change director . it have to be in the line of the first film and yet change a few thing to make it nothing but a repeat . the character of freddy krueger be keep with his three distinctive element represent the right hand four finger claw and the hat and the black and red strip pullover and plus of course his ugly mug . but then we move . first the main character be a boy something like a junior or senior in high school and so not really a boy anymore . but yet the boyish side be emphasize by a hairless body and shiny and pure skin and a skin that be widely show and slowly brush up and down by the camera . and that the change . the camera really center on his body and his skin and his flesh even and except of course his front sexual part per se . then it use gym scene and even locker room and shower scene and but once again with restraint . very little nudity and when there be some backside scene it be in a very traumatic situation represent the gay sport teacher who be torture and whip in the nude of course and tie up to the shower and while the boy in the nude too be show slightly in some darkness and flittingly . many scene of the boy in bed only wear his underwear and never really ambiguous but always sexy even if once again flittingly . then some more element be add represent his friendship with another boy who be the rather of the macho type but who do not seem afraid of a masculine friendship . both be victimize by the gay sport teacher on the football field a couple of time and in the end the boy and jesse and will come to ask for help from his friend and grady and and the first reaction will be nearly openly gay even if deny in some side remark and and freddy will kill grady through and from inside the body of jesse represent if that be not a repressed homosexual desire and what be . and before jesse have go to a leather bar and have be literally kidnap by the gay sport teacher and it be then later in the shower that freddy again will kill this openly gay character from within the body of jesse . if one case be a coincidence and two be not and that be the main change of this film from a girl center vision of fear to a boy center vision . in fact we must understand that freddy be the real character question here . he be an old pedophile and after have recapture some existence through the dream of a girl in the first film and and have thus get a couple of boy in his bag through the desire of the girl for these boy and now he move directly to the main target of his desire represent he want to possess a boy from inside and he be a gay pedophile and jesse and to defend his sanity in this invasion and will have to react against this gayness that be impose onto him and kill the boy and men freddy desire . but this can also be nothing but a tactic from freddy to push jesse into kill and to titillate him where it tickle and where jesse do not really want to be tickle and though when freddy force jesse away from his girlfriend at the very moment when he be get excited enough to let himself slip into some sex can be see a the revulsion of freddy for that type of sex or a the fear of jesse in front of that type of sex and which would lead to believe that freddy manage to get back into existence through the homosexual desire of jesse and at the same time his resistance to this sexual appeal . but that be a real change in that kind of horror film represent to take a point of view that focus onto a boy and his desire and his fear and and his anxiety and all of it emphasize by a castrating authoritarian father and a loving and maybe too much and mother . we must keep in mind that this be a common situation for many boy when they turn sixteen or seventeen . in no way be this sequel low and less intense than the first episode . note finally the use of an old abandoned factory to give some density to freddy old personality and past and but also to open another chapter in that exploration of fear represent the fear we can feel in front of and inside those old factory that seem in many way haunt . that be a dimension stephen king have use over and over again in so many of his book and film . nothing really new but something definitely effective and at least by remind the audience of other frighten scene in other film . then the evaluation of that reference be a question of date to know who use it first and who be a copycat or an imitator and who can anyway also be a developer . dr jacques coulardeau and university of paris dauphine and university of paris 1 pantheon sorbonne .