The Pool (2001)
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Release Date: Thursday, October 4th 2001,
A mixed bag of attractive and empty-headed international students spend their final day of school at a large and ornate indoor pool in Prague. As they while away the evening with alcohol, dancing, and casual sex, a masked killer whittles down their number in a variety of gruesome ways. While imitation is still the sincerest form of flattery, it's likely that Messrs.
Carpenter and Cunningham et al. would find this European-made slasher film more insult than homage. Director and cowriter Boris von Sychowski's debut attempts to ape Wes Craven's Scream, but his risible dialogue and inept, crazy-quilt cast only succeed in presenting a more aggravating version of that film's self-conscious tone.
It's numbingly derivative and lowbrow from start to finish, and only the most non-discerning gorehounds will find anything here worth their 89 minutes. For the truly commitment-free, Artisan's DVD presentation includes some behind-the-scenes interviews. --Paul Gaita
Director: Boris von Sychowski
Cast:
Kristen Miller,
Elena Uhlig,
Thorsten Grasshoff,
John Hopkins,
Isla Fisher,
Jason Liggett,
Jonah Lotan,
Cordelia Bugeja,
James McAvoy,
Linda Rybová,
Bryan Carney,
Maximilian Grill,
Anna Geislerová,
Jan Vlasák,
Daniel Wurm,
Marek Libert,
Karel Belohradsky,
Josef Pejchal
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