Freddy at the pool party is one of the WORST moments of the whole series. Fred looked so ridiculous throwing around chairs and chasing after teenagers who were bigger than him and the "You are all my children now" line makes no sense. This whole movie is chock full of series worse moments but that one takes the cake.
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Everyone at the brass -- from Wes Craven to Robert Englund himself -- seems to find that scene ridiculous. I think Freddy showing up at the pool party was one of Craven's bigger problems with the movie.
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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.
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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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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.
shareTo 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.
shareI 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.
shareI 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.
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"Angels to some, demons to others..... Now you must come with us!"
I liked the image of him just popping up and these kids being scared *beep*
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 and terrifying.
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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?"
Sounds Right on the Money to me ive always felt the same
shareI 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.
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