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Dir. Jack Sholder, 1985, USA, 87 min.
“Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) is a student at Springwood High in a fictional Ohio town. His family has just moved into the house on Elm Street in which the gory events of the first installment took place. From the very first night Jesse starts having disturbing dreams about a grotesque man entreating him to try on his steel-clawed leather gloves, which look kind of dangerous but also kind of kinky. If this strikes you as an erotic proposal, you're on the money. No doubt these are traumatic nightmares, but they're also literally wet dreams; Jesse wakes up drenched in sweat, frightened, ashamed—excited?
What is the Elm Street saga really about? Is it about the waking nightmare of suburban existence, of asphyxiating in the stiflingly conformist landscape of Smalltown, USA? Is it about the horror of adolescence, when the body reveals a heretofore unimagined capacity to rebel and repulse? Yes, it's both of those things, but more fundamentally it's about the repressed, both on the level of the individual psyche and that of society. It's about the simultaneous danger and allure of transgression, of submitting to violation and penetration, and the anxiety this causes. It's also about everything modern industrial society represses about its own reproduction.”
Cosmo Bjorkenheim, Screen Slate
All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.
Dir. Jack Sholder, 1985, USA, 87 min.
“Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) is a student at Springwood High in a fictional Ohio town. His family has just moved into the house on Elm Street in which the gory events of the first installment took place. From the very first night Jesse starts having disturbing dreams about a grotesque man entreating him to try on his steel-clawed leather gloves, which look kind of dangerous but also kind of kinky. If this strikes you as an erotic proposal, you're on the money. No doubt these are traumatic nightmares, but they're also literally wet dreams; Jesse wakes up drenched in sweat, frightened, ashamed—excited?
What is the Elm Street saga really about? Is it about the waking nightmare of suburban existence, of asphyxiating in the stiflingly conformist landscape of Smalltown, USA? Is it about the horror of adolescence, when the body reveals a heretofore unimagined capacity to rebel and repulse? Yes, it's both of those things, but more fundamentally it's about the repressed, both on the level of the individual psyche and that of society. It's about the simultaneous danger and allure of transgression, of submitting to violation and penetration, and the anxiety this causes. It's also about everything modern industrial society represses about its own reproduction.”
Cosmo Bjorkenheim, Screen Slate
All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.