The pool party scene is cringe worthy.
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qazu — 11 years ago(August 29, 2014 07:18 AM)
It was so poorly produced.
Throwing chairs around like some mad vagrant and running after teens physically bigger than him.
It was like a poor man's version of the prom scene from Carrie and 100% ~not~ the way Freddy operates.
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Yeci — 11 years ago(September 01, 2014 05:22 PM)
Highly doubt that when Fred was alive he was crashing teenage pool parties and massacring the attendees just for funzees. I can totally see why the pool party scene is hated by the some of the people behind the scenes. It was haphazardly done and basically contradicts the way Kreuger is supposed to exist. But still despite all that's wrong with it its one of the few entertaining parts of this movie so I forgive it for being bad.
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liketearsintherain — 11 years ago(September 08, 2014 12:54 AM)
To me it wasn't really that bad. Could it have been better? Yes. I liked the image of him just popping up and these kids being scared beep "Help yourself, beep is one of his best one-liners in my book.
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surgecess — 10 years ago(May 08, 2015 08:43 PM)
I fully love this sequence, its SO chaotic! I laugh my ass off everytime I see it. I'm sure I would hate it to if I try'd to make sense of it, thankfully I'm just here to be entertained by Freddy's violent nature.
"Angels to some, demons to others.. Now you must come with us!"
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melco92 — 11 years ago(January 15, 2015 01:16 AM)
I liked the image of him just popping up and these kids being scared beep
Actually, something I noticed for the first time tonight is that those kids didn't seem very scared at all. When Freddy's doing his "all my children" thing, they just stand there looking at him, with mildly curious expressions.
I agree about the "help yourself" line though.
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sundownagain — 11 years ago(October 02, 2014 07:35 AM)
Unfortunately, as ludicrous as it is - it's the best scene in the film because everything that came before it was just utterly and completely yawn inducing. It's a boring horror film and that is the worst kind of movie imaginable. Horror films are supposed to be atmospheric and tense. This was just, ugh, a totally missed opportunity. I think it was fresh to have a male lead in a slasher, but it was done just wrong.
It's unfortunate because we got a really cool side of Freddy that we didn't really see a lot of in the first film and would never see again - hellbent
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Nick Zbu — 9 years ago(June 30, 2016 11:41 AM)
I think that whole scene is what really defined the character by knowing what NOT to do with him. Having Krueger pursue someone in the real world is one thing, but going after a group of teenagers just seems a bit silly. Then again, Freddy in this movie is pretty much a demon instead of the being he became starting next movie, so seeing him lash out openly and ignore his usual methods of divide & conquer come off a bit weirdly.
Honestly, we could see it as a metaphor for Jesse's rage at his bisexuality: he loves Lisa, but he also has an attraction to men, and he believes he can be either/or so he lashes out at a heterosexual beach party where everybody is adjusting to then-current social norms. Maybe it's not just Freddy in that scene that is reacting, but is bringing out Jesse's frustration and rage to use it in a very destructive manner. Keep in mind that the whole sequences ends by Jesse exerting some sort of control and then steering Freddy through the hedge and to the power plant. Given how Freddy torments his victims, he could have found something in Jesse that is full of anger and confusion and used it in the best way possible: a violent tantrum against people acting out a life that he really can't due to his sexuality.
