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The Pool

2001 · 89 min

A slick, formulaic slasher that delivers tense stalk-and-kill set pieces and a few grisly surprises without asking much of the viewer.

Genres
Thriller, Horror
Tagline
Evil has surfaced.
Overview
International students at an elite Prague school are stalked and murdered by a masked killer while holding a party in an abandoned water park.

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • revenge
  • isolation
  • class
  • violence
Places
  • school
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror7
Humour3
Realism5
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Genres
thriller, horror
Directed by
Boris von Sychowski
Written by
Lorenz Stassen
Starring
Kristen Miller, Elena Uhlig, Thorsten Grasshoff, Cordelia Bugeja, James McAvoy, Jonah Lotan, John Hopkins, Isla Fisher
Music
Johannes Kobilke
Cinematography
Notker Mahr
Runtime
89 min
Country
Germany, United States of America
Languages
English

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