Mostly I remembered this as being a kind of stupid sequel that didn't exactly fit in the series. I always had this innate sense that it was just a sub-par effort and it turns out I was always right. This one had much less effect on me as a kid than the next in the series.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
For A Nightmare on
Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, New Line Cinema didn’t manage to bring back
anyone from the first film except Robert Englund as the burned and scarred
dream tormenter Freddy Krueger. Without the creative mind of Wes Craven, who
created the character and the first story, this sequel just goes straight to
pot. It’s clear they wanted to try something slightly different without
repeating the formula, but in a story that involves a teenage boy who is, by
all evidence, possessed by Freddy and doing his killing, there is mostly chaos
and confusion with scant narrative cohesion.
