i love the original nightmare on elm street like everyone else do but i also like freddy revenge just as much . many critic give it a horrible rating for it stray too far from the original idea of craven and co. but wait a second . freddy be attempt this time to take over a young teenager body and therefore become human and no longer just a figment of perception and so far the idea be captivate to me . i think what do it for me in this movie be the fact that before this movie and freddy could only come to you in your dream and that be it . freddy doesn not really have much breathing room as far a his capability go at this point but now ( part 2 ) he can get into a body and become real . just the thought of this madman come into the real world and wreak havoc be scary enough for anyone that could realistically perceive this . yes there be some pseudo gay reference in some scene which could have be handle differently ( director jack sholder to this date still deny any intentional use of homo erotic reference ) . and when we be all teenager we all have those teenage sexual confused period or phase in our life and maybe these reference in the movie be only do to well capture whats go on in the mind of the life of a male teenager in springwood and ohio in 1985. i may be wrong but all in all i think this movie be very good and and regardless of what other critic think . i will proudly give this movie eight out of ten star .