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David Chaskin is a writer and actor who worked on horror movies such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and The Curse. He also wrote and acted in TV shows like Monsters and I, Madman.
Feb 29, 2020 · When he finally meets with “Revenge” writer David Chaskin, whom he’s held responsible all these years, their awkward conversation doesn’t really clear up much — except for Patton, who hears...
Jun 3, 2020 · Screenwriter David Chaskin has through the years changed his statement on whether the homoerotic subtext was intentional, and Patton’s anger towards Chaskin as the destroyer of his career becomes the basis of the documentaries fight.
Mar 3, 2020 · When it was initially written by David Chaskin, the message of the Elm Street 2 was almost undeniably intended to be homophobic, with Freddy as the ‘human’ embodiment of homosexuality who...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (stylized on-screen as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy's Revenge) is a 1985 American supernatural slasher film [3] directed by Jack Sholder and written by David Chaskin. It stars Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Robert Rusler.
Oct 30, 2019 · David Chaskin, the screenwriter of "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2", admits he intended the gay subtext in the film, but denies it was obvious. He also refuses to apologize to Mark Patton, the final boy who suffered from Hollywood's homophobia and AIDS.
Jul 6, 2021 · The icing on the cake in terms of the film’s queerness is that the writer himself, David Chaskin, has since admitted that he did write the gay themes in there. But that’s part of the problem here and it’s what the documentary really gets at in its third act.
