Double Gazing: Theorizing a ‘Bisexual gaze’ Through A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)1

Some films are made queer; others have queerness thrust upon them. This article argues that A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Citation1985) exists in the liminal space between these positions. While Freddy’s Revenge has been described (in both popular and academic discourse) as ‘the gayest horror film ever made’, this article moves the debate beyond monosexual readings to argue that, intentionally or not, the film offers audiences a ‘plurisexual’ desiring gaze where desire is fluid across gender lines. Slasher history generally, and franchise history specifically, are used to contextualize the reading and the film itself. There is also engagement with previous work on both gaze theory and bisexual looking relations. In the process, the article thinks through what a bisexual gaze might ‘look like’, how it might function, and what this means for our reading of both Freddy’s Revenge and film more generally.