Just in time for Spooky Season, Funeral Parade is proud to present A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, a queer-coded slasher classic.

The man of your dreams is BACK! That’s right, Freddy Krueger has returned to stalk Elm Street once again – and this time he’s enlisting teenager Jesse Walsh to help carry out his evil deeds. Freddy intends to possess Jesse’s body in order to take his bloody revenge on the teenage population of Springwood, Ohio. Will Jesse be able to resist him? A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge has become infamous for its homoerotic subtext and features an iconic performance from Mark Patton as slasher cinema’s first male “scream queen”.

With intro from film curator Sarah Cleary.

Funeral Parade is proud to present An Actor’s Revenge, Kon Ichikawa’s melodrama about kabuki and vengeance.

Taking place during Japan’s Edo period, the story follows Yukitaro, a kabuki theatre performer, as he seeks revenge on the three criminals who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier. A renowned onnagata — a male actor who portrays female characters — Yukitaro is as bewitchingly androgynous as he is deadly with a sword. However, his plan to mete out retribution is complicated when he develops feelings for Namiji, the daughter of one of his foes. A stunningly beautiful tragedy with lush widescreen compositions, An Actor’s Revenge is both a classic of 1960s Japanese cinema and landmark example of on-screen gender fluidity.

With intro from curator Sarah Cleary.

For the festive season, Funeral Parade is proud to present The Long Day Closes, Terence Davies’ bittersweet elegy to cinema-going and queer childhood.

Drawn from Davies’ own recollections of the mid-1950s, the film centres on Bud, a lonely boy growing up in working-class Liverpool. Bullied at school and largely friendless, he finds solace in trips to the local cinema and the faraway glamour of Hollywood. His loving family are also a source of comfort but, as he becomes aware of his burgeoning sexuality, Bud must ultimately confront his guilt, shame, and fear alone. Beautifully rendered from a child’s-eye-view, The Long Day Closes is a haunting and tender work of poetic cinema.

With intro from curator Sarah Cleary.