Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street

Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Directors Tyler Jensen and Roman Chimienti follow actor Mark Patton — the lead of the 1985 sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, whose career ended before it began.

The film traces exactly what went wrong: a queer subtext the studio apparently didn't register until it was already in theatres, an AIDS crisis that poisoned the reception, and a Hollywood that had no interest in the scrutiny that followed. Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, and other franchise veterans sit down for the conversation. Patton's willingness to account for the full cost of that film — on his career, his health, his sense of self — is what sets this apart from standard genre retrospectives.

Stream Scream, Queen! (2019) online on iFILM.