We've been keeping track of the documentary SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET for several years now, first giving it a write-up in 2015. The film has had festival screenings and been taken on a roadshow tour since then, and thanks to Virgil Films & Entertainment it's about to reach its largest audience yet.
Virgil has acquired the distribution rights to the doc and are planning to give it a limited theatrical release in the coming weeks, with a DVD and Digital release scheduled to follow on March 3rd.
Directed by Tyler Jensen and Roman Chimienti, SCREAM, QUEEN! centers on Mark Patton, the star of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE. It explores
the infamous homoerotic subtext and the special place the film holds in the NIGHTMARE franchise. Thanks in part to evolving social mores, this sequel, which was considered controversial at the time, is now being looked back upon with a new appreciation and fondness by horror aficionados and fans of the franchise. Thirty years later we’re asking what all the fuss was about when teenager Jesse Walsh danced just a little too freely and screamed a little too loudly while running from everybody’s favorite crispy, wise-cracking villain. Interviews with celebrities, film historians and fans will help us understand the social and political climate back when the film was released in 1985, as well as the positive and negative reactions it received.
The documentary follows Patton
who says he quit show business due to the trauma of the ELM STREET 2 production — to horror conventions across the U.S. He tries to make peace with the experience and confronts the FREDDY'S REVENGE cast and crew for the first time. Conversations with co-stars Robert Rusler, Kim Myers and Clu Gulager are featured, as well as one with Robert Englund, who made his career playing Freddy Krueger.
I've been looking forward to seeing this since it was first announced, so I'm glad to know I'm finally going to have the chance to watch it on DVD very soon.