Ranking The A Nightmare On Elm Street Films From Worst To Best

Few films have been so deserving of a critical reappraisal and we couldn't be happier with the love and praise that Nightmare 2 is finally being given. A stark and poignant entry in the series that touched on some pretty sensitive issues for the time.

Our protagonist this time around is Jesse, a troubled - and perhaps closeted - high-schooler who finds himself being targetted by Freddy, who instead of killing him, wants to use Jesse as a vessel to permanently escape his confines of the dream world.

Beneath the typical eighties cheese and heavily-implied homosexual subtext, there's a real darkness to this film. Freddy is equally as terrifying as he was the first time around, and his scheme to use Jessie as a meat-puppet to enact his murders adds an extra layer of menace and resourcefulness to his character.

Yes, this one does bend the rules of the series and many of Freddy's powers displayed here have never come up again, but that only serves to give Freddy's Revenge a unique identity. It's certainly not going to be everyone's favourite, but it's a well-written, terrifically realised nightmare that has a lot more going on under the hood than you may initially think.