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Kerry Condon, Wyatt Russell, Nancy Lenehan, Ben Sinclair, Jodi Long, Eddie Martinez, Gavin Warren, Amélie Hoeferle, Ellie Araiza, Elijah J. RobertsStreaming (4)
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Als eine Erkrankung Profisportler Ray Waller (Wyatt Russell) dazu zwingt, seine Karriere aufzugeben, zieht er mit seiner Frau Eve (Kerry Condon), seiner Tochter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle) und seinem kleinen Sohn Elliot (Gavin Warren) in ein neues Haus mit Pool. Doch im Wasser lauert etwas Böses, das nur darauf wartet, die Familienmitglieder in die Untiefen eines unvorstellbaren Albtraums zu ziehen. Der schimmernde Swimmingpool wird den Kindern Spaß machen und ihm bei seiner Reha helfen, so überzeugt Ray seine Frau von dem neuen Haus. Dass er insgeheim davon träumt, wieder in der Profiliga Baseball spielen zu können, davon sagt Ray ihr nichts. Doch dies ist ein harmloses Geheimnis im Vergleich zu dem, das in dem Haus verborgen liegt. Als etwas zutiefst Böses aus der dunklen Vergangenheit des Hauses entfesselt wird, beginnt für die Familie ein schier aussichtsloser Kampf, den Kopf über Wasser zu halten. (Universal Pictures Germany)
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The first mainstream horror film of the year and it is, as expected, a yawner. The haunted pool idea could have been original, but it's generic to the point of woe in every way. No atmosphere, the scares don't work, it's so light and soft in every way. I'm pretty sick and tired of genre flicks like this. Not fun. 4/10.
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A generic January horror flick with zero ideas and even more lacklustre execution. It's like Jason Blum suddenly called out on a whim, "Make me... eh... a haunted pool movie in one week. Go!" It's all bland, cribbed from a blueprint seen a hundred times, devoid of any energy, devoid of anything memorable. No one here has tried to do anything more than make it at least visually look like a movie for the cinema. A puddle at the bottom of a real swimming pool is scarier and, unfortunately, more creative than this entire would-be horror film.
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The premise with the mysterious and dangerous swimming pool is quite original, but unfortunately it doesn't provide enough material to fill the entire running time in any interesting way. It's an hour and a half long, and it's still too long. After half an hour, the escalating situations start to get repetitive and just boil over (sic!!), and by the last tense twenty minutes it starts to get ridiculous too, there's a lot of black liquid spitting and tearing, and the bland and young Wyatt Russell tries in vain to convey any emotion. Most of the time it didn't offend me with its stupidity, but I still don't understand the cinema release, this only belongs on stream. In the case of Kurt Russell, as well as, say, Clint Eastwood, it's true that their sons don't have much charisma or acting talent.
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