YMMV / The Pool

• Complete Monster: Frank at first appears to be one of the normal teens at the party, but in reality is a vicious killer. In the opening, Frank murders Catherine's boyfriend and then murders Catherine herself after she rejected his advances. When Frank is rejected by Sarah, he decides to not only go after her but all of her friends. Frank goes on a killing spree, first murdering Kim. Frank then stabs Carter below a water slide; kills Svenja by driving his machete through her groin from top to bottom; then kills Mel; then Martin; then Mike. It is also shown he killed a cop earlier. Frank also nearly kills Carmen and two more people while gleefully and without remorse admitting to everything.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Carmen (a Good Bad Girl who gets more Character Development and useful moments than most of the others) and Kim (a struggling Scholarship Student played by a young Isla Fisher) may be the most popular characters despite their secondary roles.
• Follow the Leader: It's one of the many aesthetically similar films that came in the wake of Scream, the opening of which it more or less copies.
• Nightmare Fuel: A character goes down a water slide and straight into an upright machete.