The scene was fine and helped the tiny kill count.
Plus Freddy is supernatural and extremely strong so even if some guys did try to team up on him they'd die.
Plus the party people may have been taller than Fred but they are definitely not big, they all looked skinny/weedy or lanky so it is not that surprising that they all ran from him.

Because I would rather try to fight instead of running around in a chaotic mess. Especially when I have 40 plus people by my side. Supernatural or not.
I suppose the smartest thing would have been to hide somewhere like the cabana or a bush or just play dead.

What are you guys talking about!? The pool party scene is awesome! And of course all the kids are going to be terrified of Freddy. First of all, he looks incredibly frightening. Secondly, the guy jumps out of a glass window/sliding door and disappears into thin air, before he even lands, and then jumps out from a totally different area. And all this happens while the pool water is boiling and lights are exploding. Who the hell is going to run up to him and try to stop him!? The guy looks like a demon!

I always laugh so hard when that dorky blonde dude literally runs right into Freddy's glove lol. Lose your glasses in the stamped bro?
Someone didn't realize that they outnumbered Freddy by like 40 people?!
Damn, Get a group of 4 or 5 jocks and shield the group with lawn chairs and try to fight him off and push him in the damn pool or something at least. I know he's wearing a glove with knives but it's not a gun or anything.
All they had for defense was that moron class president type dude trying to soothe Freddy's anger lol. Awesome fml.

Hahaha. That's funny you say that! The first time I saw this movie as a kid that was my first thought.

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The best part of this movie was when he comes busting up out of the ground / concrete at the pool party. He kind of looks like Spiderman. Lol

I thought it was great. At the beginning of the party I asked myself "Wouldn't it be great if Freddy came along and started to kill those stupid teenagers?" And lo and behold, my wish was granted

I didn't see anything wrong with the sequence.

I am not a fan. I just happen to enjoy movies. Fans are embarrassing.

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You're wrong.

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.

Sounds Right on the Money to me ive always felt the same

I always thought the "You are all my children now" line was meaning that they are all the new set of kids that he is going to focus on and kill.
"Why did you take me to a gay steel mill?"

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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terrifying.

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.
Reportin' live for Black TV: White folks are dead, we gettin' the f*@# outta here!

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!"

I kind of love this sequence. I don't care that it "makes no sense". I'll take it any day over most of his shenanigans in 4-6.

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.

This is basically my problem with the whole movie. The Freddy scenes start off great in the beginning of the movie, but as it goes on it becomes less and less a NOES movie and more and more its own thing.

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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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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.
The whole movie struggles to find "Freddy" in Freddy but at that moment it loses him completely and he becomes some other character.