Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street

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Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street

2020,

1h 39m,

Documentary/

LGBTQ+

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Actor Mark Patton shares his story of being a closeted gay man while starring in "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge," a film that he began to suspect had homoerotic subtext.

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Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street compassionately draws on an actor's personal journey to offer a compelling and illuminating reexamination of the franchise's first sequel.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

Feb 29, 2020

Fascinating film... Very, very interesting stuff.

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Michael Ordoña

Los Angeles Times

Feb 27, 2020

Perhaps the slickly made documentary overstates the cultural impact of a little-seen and widely disliked film. However, it earns points for scraping at the surface of something rarely discussed in film fandom - homosexuality in horror.

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Dan Callahan

TheWrap

Feb 26, 2020

There are interviews with academics and drag queens and fans of the horror genre, and this gives the movie a wide-ranging perspective that helps us better understand the moving personal story at its core.

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Aug 24, 2022

B

As for the documentary itself, it’s probably more instructive for those who haven’t read a zillion thinkpieces about "Nightmare 2" as “the first gay horror film” ("Nosferatu" begs to differ).

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Jason Shawhan

Nashville Scene

Sep 10, 2021

This is a different and essential kind of documentary.

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C.H. Newell

Father Son Holy Gore

Jul 7, 2021

5/5

The doc expertly examines the initially negative reception to the first Elm Street sequel's queerness, plus how that affected Mark Patton as a gay man and an actor.

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Roman Chimienti

Director

Tyler Jensen

Director

Cecil Baldwin

Narrator

Mark Patton

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Robert Englund

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Roman Chimienti

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Synopsis

Actor Mark Patton shares his story of being a closeted gay man while starring in "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge," a film that he began to suspect had homoerotic subtext.

Director: Roman Chimienti, Tyler Jensen
Producer: Roman Chimienti, Mark Patton
Production Co: The End Productions
Genre: Documentary, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 27, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 3, 2020
Runtime: 1h 39m

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