Queer Diaspora: SCREAM, QUEEN!: MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET doc screening!

“Entertaining, informative, and shockingly tender” - RogerEbert.com

“A fascinating sociological examination of the circumstances surrounding a film that inadvertently became a camp classic.” - Hollywood Reporter

PRS proudly welcomes “Queer Diaspora,” the ongoing series programmed and hosted by noted filmmaker Gregorio Davila (L.A. A QUEER HISTORY, UNIDAD: GAY AND LESBIAN LATINOS UNIDOS), for its October outing – SCREAM, QUEEN!: MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2019), documentarians Roman Chimienti and Tyler Jensen’s examination of the notoriously not-so-subtly homoerotic sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street – and star Mark Patton’s journey of reckoning with its effects on his life and career.

Some have called it the “gayest horror movie ever made!” But for Mark Patton, the star of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, it was anything but a dream come true. Detailing the homophobia and AIDS phobia of 1985 as a closeted actor in Hollywood, Mark retraces his missteps on the pathway to stardom. 30 years after its initial release, Patton is hitting the road to set the record straight, at horror conventions across the U.S., about the controversial sequel and the experience that halted his career before it ever began.

Each new city unwraps a chapter from his life that is met with equal parts joyful and bittersweet detail, as Patton confronts the cast and crew (including co-stars Robert Rusler, Kim Myers and Clu Gulager, as well as Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund) for the first time and attempts to make peace with his past as well as embrace his legacy as cinema’s first male scream queen.

Join us for this riveting and moving film which explores the fascinating and rarely explored subgenre of queer-coded horror.

Dirs. Roman Chimienti & Tyler Jensen, 2019, 99 min, U.S., Not Rated (Recommended for Adult Audiences), Digital.

About Queer Diaspora

Queer Diaspora is a tri-monthly event held at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz. Founded and hosted by filmmaker, Gregorio Davila, Queer Diaspora intends to showcase the rich history, culture and artistry of the international LGBT+ community, through screenings, live performances and exhibitions. All are welcome.

About Gregorio Davila:

Gregorio made his first documentary in 2001 entitled Bent Fest 2001; a documentaryaccount of a five day music festival in Seattle which featured an all queer band line-up, and has been noted for the rare footage of Gossip, The Butchies, Traci & The Plastics and The Chromatics in their early years.

Under his production company, L.A. A QUEER HISTORY, INC., he has written, produced, edited and directed two short films and two feature-length: NANCY ROM EAST SIDE CLOVER, which played in twelve festivals around the world and won five awards, including the AUDIENCE AWARD at the SEATTLE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL, and JEANNE CORDOVA: BUTCHES, LIES & FEMINISM which made its festival debut at Outfest Los Angeles in July 2017, winning the JURY AWARD for BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY and several other awards globally.

His first feature-length Documentary, L.A. A QUEER HISTORY, a film showcasing the rich LGBT+ history of the Los Angeles area, has won 3 film festival awards, a Public Media Award (NETA), a MIPCOM Diversity Award, a Telly Award, and is currently in broadcast and streaming on PBS nationally. His latest feature documentary film, UNIDAD: GAY AND LESBIAN LATINOS UNIDOS, a film about the first Queer Latine organization in the country (Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos, GLLU) which formed in Los Angeles in 1981, premiered on PBS in June 2023.

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