{"id":7861,"date":"2021-12-12T18:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T00:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2021-12-12T18:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T00:39:53","slug":"the-pool-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=7861","title":{"rendered":"The Pool (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MV5BMTE2ZjBhMmYtOWQ4MC00NTgxLThlMDYtZjczMzA2ZGJjZTIyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzI1NzMxNzM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1024_-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MV5BMTE2ZjBhMmYtOWQ4MC00NTgxLThlMDYtZjczMzA2ZGJjZTIyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzI1NzMxNzM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1024_-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MV5BMTE2ZjBhMmYtOWQ4MC00NTgxLThlMDYtZjczMzA2ZGJjZTIyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzI1NzMxNzM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1024_-699x1024.jpg 699w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MV5BMTE2ZjBhMmYtOWQ4MC00NTgxLThlMDYtZjczMzA2ZGJjZTIyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzI1NzMxNzM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1024_-768x1125.jpg 768w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MV5BMTE2ZjBhMmYtOWQ4MC00NTgxLThlMDYtZjczMzA2ZGJjZTIyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzI1NzMxNzM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1024_-624x914.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MV5BMTE2ZjBhMmYtOWQ4MC00NTgxLThlMDYtZjczMzA2ZGJjZTIyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzI1NzMxNzM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1024_.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>So, what I knew about <a title=\"No water. No Ladder. No Way Out.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9128686\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pool<\/a> going in is that it was a Thai movie about a dude trapped in a really deep, empty pool with a crocogator. Which, yeah, that&#8217;s enough by itself to fill like 75 minutes I reckon?<\/p>\n<p>So I was pleasantly surprised to learn that this is in fact a pressure cooker of a plot, where every few minutes brings another new twist that ratchets up the tension another notch, until&#8230; well, that would be telling, obviously, but what I will say is that by the end of the movie, I believed the writers were willing to go to any lengths, which is ultimately what you want out of a horror movie but so rarely get. Nobody is safe, no line is uncrossable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what I knew about The Pool going in is that it was a Thai movie about a dude trapped in a really deep, empty pool with a crocogator. Which, yeah, that&#8217;s enough by itself to fill like 75 minutes I reckon? So I was pleasantly surprised to learn that this is in fact a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,1315],"class_list":["post-7861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-horror","tag-shudder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7864,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions\/7864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}