Smell the Movies
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| Year: | 1985 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Jack Sholder |
| Genre: | Slasher sequel |
| Starring: | Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Englund |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089686/ |
| Tagline: | The first name is terror returns... |
| Favourite line: | "Kill for me." |
This much maligned sequel to the era defining slasher movie original is nowhere near as shabby as you may have been led to believe. In fact, I would even go so far as to say it is damn original. Instead of simply being a rehash of the first movie, with more deaths, instead this reinvents itself, casting Freddie as a puppet-master type figure, controlling the actions of a hapless individual, forcing him to do his killings for him.
Indeed, Krueger barely makes an appearance until the very end, sustaining the menacing killers' persona for one movie longer than is usual for this style.
The plot: Jesse's a bit weird.
Jesse moves into the same house on Elm Street that Nancy used to live in, even sleeping in the same bedroom.
Jesse becomes possessed by the spirit of Freddy.
That's all folks, but it's more than enough.
Enjoyably spooky, this manages something that none of the sequels after this managed by actually being pretty damn frightening in places, and it also has a triumphant opening sequence which sees a school bus wind up suspended above a canyon on two craggy rocky protuberances, which is a superbly impressive visual.
I enjoyed it.
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