Swimming pool - death celebrates with us
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Swimming pool - death celebrates with us |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Boris von Sychowski |
| script | Boris von Sychowski Lorenz Stassen |
| production |
Werner Possardt Benjamin Herrmann |
| music | Johannes Kobilke |
| camera | Notker Mahr |
| cut | Sabine Mahr-Haigis |
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Swimming Pool - Death Celebrates With is a German horror film from 2001 with an international cast. Directed by Boris von Sychowski . Kristen Miller and the German actors Paul T. Grasshoff and Elena Uhlig can be seen in the leading roles .
action
Young Catherine is preparing dinner with her boyfriend. When the doorbell rings, her friend Oliver is not standing in front of the door, but is sitting dead in the car. A little later, the murderer, dressed in black and a mask, also surprises Catherine. He kills her and throws her in the pool.
Several students have just graduated from the International High School in Prague. Greg wants to have a big party with his friends and convinces Marty, who has the criminal energy, to break into a swimming pool. There the students have fun and get closer physically. Kim, who failed the exam, is stabbed to death by the masked murderer after an argument with her friend Mike in the woods. The criminal now also targets the group in the swimming pool.
Svenja and Carter have fun on the slide. Svenja wants to slide alone again. While Carter is waiting for them downstairs, he is murdered and Svenja slips right into the knife. Frank, on the other hand, is unsuccessful in flirting, gets drunk and distances himself from the group. Marty and Mel want to have sex in the gym, but Marty has to go back to get condoms. The murderer uses this time to kill Mel. Meanwhile, the other students discover the bodies of Svenja and Carter and then - together with Marty - also Mel.
The survivors quarrel and suspect one another. Marty finally got the idea to try an escape through the ventilation shafts. While Greg and Diego go to get help and Chris remains armed with an ax, Marty, Mike, Carmen and Sarah climb into the shafts. The murderer sticks in from below with the knife and catches the two boys. The girls escape and hide. After Carmen reveals to Sarah that she slept with her boyfriend Greg last year, he walks in and Carmen knocks him down. Since Sarah's father died by drowning, she is afraid of the water and so Carmen dives outside through a shaft. There she sees the body of the policeman Kadankov, who was investigating Catherine's death and who was therefore interested in the group in the swimming pool. The killer also attacks Carmen.
In the swimming pool Sarah meets Frank, who reveals himself to be the murderer in the mask. He kills his classmates because he feels like an outsider. Sarah struggles with Frank and eventually manages to set him on fire with the alcohol from the bar. When Frank falls into the pool, Greg is escaping the room he was locked in. Frank and Greg fight in the pool. In this situation, Sarah overcomes her fear and jumps into the pool. She attacks Frank with a broken bottle, but Frank survives the attack. At this moment, Carmen appears with the policeman's pistol and shoots Frank. Carmen is taken to the hospital while Sarah and Greg kiss in relief.
production
The film is a German production, but because of the international cast, the original was shot in English . The shooting took place in Prague . Director Boris von Sychowski had previously mainly produced advertising films. It was based on American horror films. Above all, parallels to Scream can be seen . In both films, the killer dressed in black wears a white mask and the scenes at the beginning of the films are similar.
criticism
The lexicon of international films describes the film as “a violent but bland copy of recent American teenage horror films, which the film in no way comes close to, especially since it offers neither the irony of the role models nor interesting main characters or storylines. Also in terms of staging and acting, at best mediocre ”. When the film starts, Johannes Pietsch draws parallels to Scream and sees Swimming Pool as “a renewed infusion of the almost always the same I-have-a-big-knife-and-come-around-the-corner-boo-boo theme. [Sychowski] ends up with [...] such a comical (but probably involuntary) nonsense parade that watching and laughing is really fun. ”The reviewer from cinema.de misses“ a spark of originality ”and accuses the director of having "His actors, all of whom are less gifted and much too old for new high school graduates, babble all sorts of stupid things". Wolfgang Huang also compares the film with American productions and writes at Filmspiegel : "The only thing that can even begin to convince about" Swimming Pool "is the butchery scenes, which, given the inflation of comparable films, are still above average - a dubious triumph. But the film fails completely on the psychological level. [...] And as far as the genre rules are concerned, the protagonists of course disregard them in the most pathetic way ”.
Web links
- Swimming pool - Death celebrates in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Swimming Pool - Death celebrates in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ FSK release certificate (PDF)
- ↑ a b c d Interview with Boris von Sychowski ( memento from June 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
- ↑ IMDb Filming Locations
- ↑ Swimming Pool - Death celebrates with us. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Johannes Pietsch: Criticism of the FILMSTARTS.de editorial team Swimming Pool - Death celebrates with. Film releases, accessed May 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Swimming Pool - Death Celebrates With (2001). cinema.de, accessed on May 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Huang: "He had a difficult youth - if I hear that already!" Filmspiegel, accessed on May 24, 2016 .