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Suspenful and clever!
I watched this movie at a sleepover and it's so scary! It's very good and I really recomend it to anyone who wants to watch a scary (and bloody) movie. I have to admit it, the acting is not great, but the script and the suspense is great!
[Sunday, May 14, 2006]
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Friday The 13th In A Rec Centre
This is the typical B grade slasher pic that rips off Friday The 13th. It's basicly putting Jason Voorhees (A guy in a mask with a machette knife) into a situation where he can slaughter a bunch of college grads who have broken into a rec centre for the graduation party.
The acting is mostly terrible, the scares are stupid, the horror is not there, and the chill factor is in the minus 10 area. About the only kill in the movie that was any good was one of the kids coming down a water slide...but it didnt show anything memorable for the effect to work to its maximum potentiol.
Ya might wanna rent it to laugh at how bad it is, but otherwise, dont bother with it, you're not missing anything special.
[Monday, February 20, 2006]
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Good, Tense Stalker-Killer Horror
A not particularly original but still solid entry in the 'lurk, chase, and kill' section of horror, "The Pool" covers familiar territory but does it well. A group of students from an international private school creep their way into a private building with an Olympic-size swimming pool for an end-of-the-year bash, only to find themselves preyed upon by a black-clad assasin. What the basic premise lacks in originality is made up for somewhat in the details; there are some innovative and jolting moments and pursuits, and it attains an unnervingly real feel in places. Not a classic of the field but good, and it came along at a time (2001) when it was desperately needed - "Friday The 13th", "A Nightmare On Elm Street", et al. were temporarily in limbo, replaced, mostly, by parodies. 2001 was the year, internationally, when movies like "Dagon", "Jeepers Creepers", "Valentine", "The Devil's Backbone" and "Bruiser" were starting to kick the door back in for horror movies to become hugely successful again, beyond the loyal following that stayed with them all through the latter half of the 90s, and "The Pool" was a solid little part of that long-awaited rennaissance.
It did well enough theatrically in Europe that a sequel is apparantly coming out soon. I liked the first chapter, and I think the potential exists to get significantly better in any future installments. As it is, "The Pool" is a fine movie, recommended to fellow fans of F13, "Halloween", NOES and similar greats.
[Friday, January 06, 2006]
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