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VIDEO: Your Definitive Guide to the Gayness of Nightmare on Elm Street 2

Somehow this all escaped me as a 12-year-old horror viewer and in the intervening decades since its mythology has burrowed its way into pop culture, but: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge is just about the gayest mainstream film of the '80s. Hell, not "just about" -- it is, as the new documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy illustrates in specific, awesome detail. Click through for the proof in a mildly NSFW excerpt.

Sure, the screenwriter calls it "subtext," and director Jack Sholder deflects a few of the more overt references (suggestive dance scenes, New Line president Bob Shaye as a frigging leather-clad bartender) as clues that came to him later, but hearing everyone from Robert Englund to gleefully out leading man Mark Patton discuss what they pulled off on the studio dime is nothing short of engrossing. "All I can say is were were all incredibly naive," one executive says. "Or all incredibly, latently gay. I'm not sure which." If this is what we all have to look forward to in the sequel to this year's turgid reboot, let's get that thing going already.

[via Vulture]