Just about every film franchise has at least one poorly received installment, but there's nothing quite as everlastingly divisive as the first sequel in a series, for it demarcates the moment when a large number of fans felt disappointed or worse. For the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise , that installment is the very first sequel, 1985's "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge," which was always going to have an uphill battle in the best of cases following Wes Craven's 1984 original. Craven's film brought European-influenced dream logic and (literal) nightmarish imagery to the slasher movie, thereby kicking off its own trend in the form of the "rubber reality" movie as well as a slew of imitators. The film's box office success meant that a sequel was inevitable, yet the film

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