In one scene, the pair wrestle around the ground while playing baseball in gym class, with Jessie’s bare rump exposed the whole time. But part of it’s really there.”Įnglund points to the relationship between Jessie Walsh (Mark Patton), the teen haunted by Freddy after his family moves into Nancy Thompson’s old house from Part I, and his new friend Grady (Robert Rusler). “Part of it’s just there for window dressing. “Not completely unlike the volleyball game in Top Gun. But it was certainly there,” Englund told Yahoo Entertainment about the sequel, which turned 35 this month, during a 2014 Role Recall interview (watch above). We didn’t hit it over the head with a nail. “ Part 2 has a really interesting bisexual, psychological thing going for it. As far as famously homoerotic sequences in seemingly “straight” ’80s movies go, nothing will ever top the sweaty and shirtless fighter pilots bouncing around the sand to Kenny Loggins’s “Playing With the Boys” in Top Gun‘s unforgettable beach volleyball battle.īut as Robert Englund - the man who donned Freddy Krueger’s murderous razor-claw glove to torment teens for eight installments of Nightmare on Elm Street - reminds us, the franchise’s first sequel, Freddy’s Revenge (1985), belongs in the same conversation.