History Film / ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge

* BeastWithAHumanFace: Lisa comes across [[http://www.1nsan3.com/Reviews/Pics/mov_elm2_7.jpg two]] [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BuRgJj0DCj0/TmAvttgENaI/AAAAAAAACkU/ZjXVr7_86cE/s1600/nightmare2.jpg dogs]] with human faces when she goes to the Freddy's former workplace to find her possessed boyfriend Jesse.

* BlackComedy: Grady is apparently grounded because he threw his grandma down a flight of stairs, assuming that isn't itself a joke.

* CatapultNightmare: Jesse waking up from his second onscreen nightmare. The first one is a variation. We don't see Jesse literally jump awake (it happens offscreen), but he's screaming at the top of his lungs, so loud that his family downstairs can hear it.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A common criticism against this film was how it did not seem to follow the rules of the first movie. In particular having Freddy possessing Jesse and coming out in the real world and killing teenagers at a pool party. He also somehow has demon dogs in the real world. [[spoiler: Interestingly enough, in this movie no one is actually killed by Freddy in their dreams with the possible exception of the end scene]]

** There's a non-visual version when Lisa reads Nancy's diary. It seems to be describing a nightly encounter between Nancy and her boyfriend Glen. Then it gets creepy when she describes how the guy apparently claws at her with his blades...
* FinalGirl: A gender flipped subversion, as Jesse is the one who actually needs saving while Lisa is the one who has to go and rescue him.

** Jesse sees Freddy in the mirror in the place of his own reflection, and Freddy wags his finger at him as he laughs.

* GainaxEnding: Like the previous film, [[spoiler: Freddy returns in the final scene to seemingly attack the protagonists again. We're never told if Jesse actually dies, or if this is just Freddy sending one last "screw you" with the last of his power as he likes to do. Or if it's actually a dream, even though it directly mirrors the dream scene in the opening.]]

* TheKillerInMe: Played with on a less grander scale. Freddy kills [[spoiler:Coach Schneider]]. The camera than pans back to Jesse looking at the dead body, covered in blood and wearing Freddy's killing glove. When Jesse sees the evidence and realizes that he is the killer, he freaks out. In a later scene, Freddy bursts out of Jesse's body and kills [[spoiler:Jesse's friend Grady]]. Pan back to Jesse again covered in blood and wearing the glove. He curses at Freddy, who is still standing in the room, but when he throws the glove at Freddy it breaks the doorroom mirror that Jesse saw Freddy in, revealing that Jesse was [[TomatoInTheMirror only looking at a reflection of himself]].

* NeckLift: Freddy grabs one of his victims by the neck and lifts him up against a door before gutting him.

* NonIndicativeTitle: Freddy returns, but he isn't actually getting revenge on anyone. Nancy, the only survivor of the original film is not in this one, [[spoiler:and she didn't even beat him then, prompting no actual revenge.]] There is also no hint that the kids' parents in this film were responsible for killing Freddy; Jesse's parents in particular only recently moved into the neighborhood.
* NotMyDriver: In Jesse's first nightmare at the start of the movie, Freddy replaces the bus driver just before the bus careers off into the desert. (The original driver is actually played by Robert Englund ''sans'' Freddy makeup.) [[spoiler:The same thing happens at the end of the movie.]]

* PainfulTransformation: Freddy takes over Jesse's body by messily transforming it into his own shape. This includes blades growing out of Jesse's fingers, his skin peeling off, and Freddy ripping open and bursting out of his chest. Jesse is howling in visible agony the entire time.

* ThePowerOfLove: Pretty much what beats Freddy, as Jesse's love for Lisa stops him from killing her, and in turn her love for Jesse makes him able to break free from Freddy.

* RealityWarper: As Freddy gains more power over Jesse, he is able to alter things in reality. He goes completely nuts at the pool party, boiling the water in the pool, creating a wall of fire around the yard, making himself temporarily intangible before jumping out from under the floorboards, and blowing up the barbecue and most of the electrical appliances that are there.

* TransformationOfThePossessed: Every time Freddy takes over, he converts Jesse's body into his own form.

** Jesse's mother comes across as much more reasonable and understanding than his dad does, who believes that Jesse figured out how to make one of their pet lovebirds ''explode'' and is on drugs. Jesse's mom, on the other hand, figures that something is indeed wrong with Jesse, and that they need someone who can help since they obviously can't.

* SupernaturalProofFather: Jesse's father Ken.

* ShipperOnDeck: Kerry has a few moments, notably when she encourages Angie to leave the party and go find Jesse.

* BroadStrokes: The events of this movie are seemingly ignored in productions that followed - but elements introduced in that, such as Freddy retaining possession as a power and the Springwood Slasher nickname, appeared in the rest of the franchise, and ''Dream Warriors'' even follows the timeline set by it (''Freddy's Revenge'' is five years after the original, ''Dream Warriors'' is six). Scenes from it are also used in the montages featured in ''Freddy's Dead'' and ''Freddy vs. Jason''.

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[[caption-width-right:300: ''[[{{Tagline}} The Man of Your Dreams Is Back.]]'']]

More nightmares happen on [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Elm Street]] in this 1985 sequel, ''A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge''.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A common criticism against this film was how it did not seem to follow the rules of the first movie. In particular having Freddy possessing Jesse and coming out in the real world and killing teenagers at a pool party. He also somehow his demon dogs in the real world. [[spoiler: Interestingly enough, in this movie no one is actually killed by Freddy in their dreams with the possible exception of the end scene]]

* CanonDiscontinuity: The canonical status of this film in the series has not been clarified by the filmmakers, but it has been ignored by every subsequent sequel, until scenes from it were featured in the opening of ''Film/FreddyVsJason''

* AmbiguouslyGay: Jesse Walsh. The actor who portrayed him is gay in real life.

* RevengeOfTheSequel: It's called ''Freddy's Revenge'' of course. However, it's a NonIndicativeTitle, since Freddy is not getting his revenge on anyone. Nancy, the only survivor of the original film is not in this one, [[spoiler:and she didn't even beat him then, prompting no actual revenge.]] There is also no hint that the kids' parents in this film were responsible for killing Freddy.

* {{Diary}}: Lisa finds Nancy Thompson's (previosuly unseen) diary while helping to clean his room, and they start reading it.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Jesse Walsh. The actor who portrayed him is actually gay in real life.

* FinalGirl: Lisa Webber.