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12 Feet Deep (2017)
7/10
A taut trapped Drama/thriller
17 July 2017
Two sisters swimming at a public indoor pool get trapped beneath the pool cover. Things get really bad for them fast as the place closes up for holidays.

I thought it seemed hokey to be stuck under a cover but a thick fiberglass sheet is a different story. One of the ladies is diabetic which ups the ante. Things get even worse when possible help turns around and extorts them. Similar to Extortion (2017).

An emotional roller-coaster for sure as we find out they were abused and they lost their father in a fire. So all these different elements are wearing them down slowly. It is one of those films you find yourself yelling at the screen for them to either do this or don't do that. Which you can either love or hate.

If you tune in for Tobin Bell his role is limited to telling people to get out and then he closes the pool cover. More of a fan winking cameo than anything.

Overall the flick is pretty good and you might even shed a tear or two.
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8/10
Dark but a great message
21 January 2017
One would think horror from looking at the cover of the film, surprisingly the movie is really a thriller and about a father's love for his daughter. Sure, the voices in the film are definitely scary and pretty crazy to think about, but the story is really about Lazaro Torres and the redemption of his soul. A very good silent performance by Zachary Laoutides and a solid screenplay. The film is in the spirit of Laoutides' screenplay and movie last year Adios Vaya Con Dios. I realized that Laoutides is taking regular social stories with a genre and reinventing them into artistic renditions.

Don't get scared away from the dark, if you listen and watch in between the lines there is a message of light.
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