20 Most Underrated Horror Movies EVER

6. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

In some respects you can't entirely blame audiences for being a little miffed by A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge.

For one, Heather Langenkamp's original protagonist Nancy Thompson is nowhere to be seen, and two, it tosses out of a few of the previously established rules for Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund).

But Elm Street 2 has nevertheless been re-evaluated in recent years for its homoerotic themes, particularly how the entire plot - of a teenage boy, Jesse (Mark Patton), becoming an unwitting conduit for Freddy - seems to double quite tidily as an allegory for the process of coming-out.

Now, that's not to say that the film isn't messy and uneven, especially compared to its phenomenal predecessor, but there is far more going on here than it got credit for upon original release, and it absolutely deserves to be set apart from the series' less-ambitious later sequels.