Freddy's Revenge [SYFY edit]

 I think my previous post about the combination of films said enough but I will divide the series into blurbs, too.

I was surprised by how much SYFY allowed for A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy's Revenge (1985). The death of Marshall Bell (the gay sports coach who loved to make Jesse and Ron do laps around the field and lots of afternoon pushups) is shortened, of course, considering he was bare-assed while tied to faucet nobs with jump ropes. Freddy shredded Bell's back with his claws so that was perhaps a bit too grisly for television. When Jesse and Lisa are making out in the cabana, their scene isn't shortened too much, with even the Freddy tongue left in as it gropes the middle of her breasts. Freddy's peeling back his head skin to reveal his brain was left in much to my surprise. And when Freddy exits Jesse, it seems very much intact. That, to me anyway, is far more disturbing than a brief ax to Marcie's head in "Friday the 13th" (1980). And even Annie's slit throat bleeding isn't as unsettling as seeing Freddy's arm breaking from Jesse's skin or bursting from his chest. I just don't get it. Poor Jesse: drenched in sweat almost the entire running time and Lisa, bless her heart, just wouldn't give up on a relationship with him despite the obvious. I think the 1985 trip down memory lane always gets me. I didn't watch this until probably 1995 or 1996 because I don't remember it being available in many of my rental store haunts. It was the last Elm Street film I watched of the sixth. I'm trying to recall how I felt about it at the time. I don't think I out and out rejected it. But its definite feeling of separation from parts 1, 3, 4, and 5 continues. It isn't referenced afterward, although when Jesse and Lisa find Nancy's diary and discuss it, I find that quite intriguing. It's a callback to the first and Jesse does bring that up to his father, how the house was so cheap five years after "that girl went crazy".