The story goes something like this: Christopher Young, seeing the script and budget of the movie knows odds are low that the movie’s going to be very good so he goes all out writing a HUGE score to try to compensate. And when he runs out of budget for it, he uses his own money to finish it off.
If this is true, it’s very thoughtful of him.
NoES 2: Freddy’s Revenge is a weird one. Franchises as we know them today - hell, as NoES helped establish - weren’t really a thing yet so there was less emphasis on the rules of the universe.
The vibe here was “Writer, it’s about a child predator that kills teens in their dreams,” and they just let him go from there.
And for the longest time, this was considered the worst entry - an unfair opinion (we’re just going to blow past Freddy’s Dead?) but a VERY common one.
Because it was gay.
The kills are good, the body yea formation is good, the story’s good.
There were issues with the idea that a small guy running around in the real world, even with finger knives, could kill so many young and fit people, but the core complaint was the underlying homosexuality of the characters.
Personally, I wish they had leaned in way more and had Jessie realize he was gay. It would have made his friend’s death so much more impactful and fleshed out his character more because, as it stands, he’s pretty damn gay until the last five minutes or so.
But it was the 80s, you know? If you wanted your horror movie to… make a killing (heh) at the box office, you maybe don’t lean so far into what was considered a niche audience.
At least NoES 2 is getting reevaluated by fresh eyes and is finally getting the appreciation it always deserved.
AND the score is great!
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