History Trivia / ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge

* TheOtherMarty: Creator/RobertEnglund was not initially asked to return as Freddy, because New Line thought they'd be able to use any old stuntman for the part and thus be able to pay him on the cheap. Within a week of filming, it was clear that the stuntman in question (whose name has never been publicly stated) was not up to the task; his movements have been described as more akin to FrankensteinsMonster than Freddy, and absolutely lifeless. He was fired and replaced with Englund, but a small bit of his footage remains in the shower scene. It works out well, since that scene is actually supposed to be Jesse doing the kill anyway.

** Actual filming went smoothly for the most part, although Mark Patton had large objections to the infamous "Touch Me" dance scene. While Patton was himself gay, he thought the scene was too gay even for him. He did his own choreography, which was far less campy than originally planned. Additionally, the climactic pool party massacre had actors not knowing when explosions were to go off -- nobody was acting in that scene, their scared reactions were ''absolutely real''.

* WordOfGay: According to Creator/RobertEnglund on the film's various homoerotic subtexts, “Part 2 has a really interesting bisexual, psychological thing going for it. We didn’t hit it over the head with a nail. But it was certainly there. Not completely unlike the volleyball game in ''Film/TopGun. Part of it’s just there for window dressing. But part of it’s really there.”

* WordOfGay: According to Creator/RobertEnglund on the film's various homoerotic subtexts, “Part 2 has a really interesting bisexual, psychological thing going for it. We didn’t hit it over the head with a nail. But it was certainly there. “Not completely unlike the volleyball game in [[Film/TopGun Top Gun]]. Part of it’s just there for window dressing. But part of it’s really there.”

* DawsonCasting: The High School aged Jesse is played by Mark Patton, who was 27-years old at the time.

** Creator/BradPitt and Creator/ChristianSlater auditioned for the role of Jesse Walsh. Creator/MichaelJFox was also considered, but he was busy with ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and ''Film/TeenWolf''.

* DawsonCasting - Teen Jesse is played by a 27-year-old, and it's lampshaded when he orders a beer at a bar and isn't carded

* HeyItsThatPlace: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Steel The Kaiser Steel mill]] appears as the electrical plant where Freddy takes his victims when he was still alive.

* BTeamSequel: Creator/WesCraven refused to work on this film because he never wanted or intended to have the first film become an ongoing franchise (and even wanted it to have a happy ending). He also didn't like the idea of Freddy manipulating the protagonist into committing the murders. Creator/HeatherLangenkamp was never asked or even considered for the producers to return to this sequel. Of the entire cast of the previous movie, Creator/RobertEnglund is the only actor who returned. This would rarely be repeated for the rest of the franchise (only happening again in ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' and ''Film/FreddyVsJason''), which would always do its best to rescue living characters from previous films.

* WordOfGay: According to Robert Englund on the film's various homoerotic subtexts, “Part 2 has a really interesting bisexual, psychological thing going for it. We didn’t hit it over the head with a nail. But it was certainly there. “Not completely unlike the volleyball game in [[Film/TopGun Top Gun]]. Part of it’s just there for window dressing. But part of it’s really there.”

* TheOtherMarty: If you can believe it, Creator/RobertEnglund was not initially asked to return as Freddy, because New Line thought they'd be able to use any old stuntman for the part and thus be able to pay him on the cheap. Within a week of filming, it was clear that the stuntman in question (whose name has never been publicly stated) was not up to the task; his movements have been described as more akin to FrankensteinsMonster than Freddy, and absolutely lifeless. He was fired and replaced with Englund, but a small bit of his footage remains in the shower scene. It works out well, since that scene is actually supposed to be Jesse doing the kill anyway.

** Rachel Talalay, who worked behind the scenes of the first four movies and directed ''Freddy's Dead'', admits that the script, while interesting, had many basic problems that were not fixed due to the rushed production. In particular, she criticizes the fact that the film does not have a female protagonist (or more specifically, that Lisa doesn't take up the role until the final ten minutes) and that it is difficult to make Freddy Krueger scary when you see him in the real world interacting with dozens of people at the same time (a feeling shared by Wes Craven and the film's cinematographer).

** In the original script, the ending on the bus is different: instead of a random female friend, Lisa is who would be possessed by Freddy and would attack Jesse in the final scene.

** In an interview in 1987, Creator/RobertEnglund said he likes the beginning and end of this movie, but that he has problems with the second act of the plot. Years later, he admits on the ''Never Sleep Again'' documentary that he didn’t have that many positive experiences working on the film and even felt that the atmosphere was off when shooting it, lamenting that he had the least fond memories with this entry.

** In an interview in 1987, Creator/RobertEnglund says he likes the beginning and end of this movie, but that he has problems with the second act of the plot. Years later, he admits on the ''Never Sleep Again'' documentary that he didn’t have that many positive experiences working on the film and even felt that the atmosphere was off when shooting it, lamenting that he had the least fond memories with this entry.

* BTeamSequel: Creator/WesCraven refused to work on this film because he never wanted or intended to have the first film become an ongoing franchise (and even wanted it to have a happy ending). He also didn't like the idea of Freddy manipulating the protagonist into committing the murders. Creator/HeatherLangenkamp was never asked or even considered for the producers to return to this sequel. Of the entire cast of the previous movie, Creator/RobertEnglund is the only actor who returned. This would rarely be repeated for the rest of the franchise (only happening again in ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare''), which would always do its best to rescue living characters from previous films.

** Rachel Talalay, who worked behind the scenes of the first four movies and directed ''Freddy's Dead'', admits that the script, while interesting, had many basic problems that were not fixed due to the rushed production. In particular, she criticizes the fact that the film does not have a female protagonist and that it is difficult to make Freddy Krueger scary when you see him in the real world interacting with dozens of people at the same time (a feeling shared by Wes Craven and the film's cinematographer).