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Swimfan [2002]

Starring: Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby, Kate Burton, Clayne Crawford
Director: John Polson
Format: PAL Widescreen
Released: 07 Apr 2003
RRP: £13.99
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Let them drown, those who don't know how to swim - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 08 Apr 2007
A rather poor story. Two nice young people love each other. The boy is in the swimming team & the girl is happily going along in her life of work & school. Then a vulture arrives. She is blonde, she is cannibalistic, she is ready to kill to possess what she wants & she does not take no as an answer to her orders. Then the boy says yes under pressure & she will not accept his no later on & will kill everything she can lay her hands on : friends, girl friend, mother, & the list could go on forever. The boy, with the help of a couple of people, bait that vulture with the coat of one she had tried to kill, & she is tricked into revealing her real identity, & even so she is not finished & she takes advantage of an amateurish cop to commit a couple more crime. What do we get out of this melodramatic horror? A complete feeling of emptiness that gives you a taste of ashes in your mouth, the ashes of something that is dead somewhere. Crime is never mechanical. To kill someone requires some imagination. In this case it is nothing but a bad habit that no one can cut out of her.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

Oh. My. God. - By: J. S. Meins, 31 Jul 2006
If you are about 14, easily pleased & have never, ever seen a horror film; you might just find this watchable. For anyone else this reallly is inexcusable stuff. A stupid, ridiculous storyline, with Beverly Hills 90210 acting alll wrapped up in a predictable, annoying, yawn inducing 90 minutes. Like, whatever.
Steady paced, bit predictable but good. - By: , 13 Mar 2006
This steady paced high-school thriller, strikes alll the right chords to keep you glued to the screen. It is slightly predictable, but you don't reallly notice that until after you seen it. If your looking for a good high-school thriller you wont be dissapointed.
Loved it - By: , 17 Oct 2004
This film isn't your normal boring high school flick, it something complete different. It's alll about messing with your mind.
You have the couple Ben Cronin (Jesse Bradford - Bring It On), reborn through swimming from a thief to a respectable guy & Amy Miller (Shiri Appleby - TV's Roswell), the good student, both have promising careers. Then comes along Maidson Bell (Erika Christensen - Traffic) who wants Ben, she becomes so involved in his life, being bestfriends with Amy, dating the bestfriend Josh & meeting the mother, that he tells her to leave him alone. Which was a big mistake because she's slgithly insane.

The actors performances were brillant & they took the characters further than most actors could, especiallly Erika, Jesse & Shiri. The direction of the film was good, & gets your mind thinking by the end of it.


worth a watch, don't get over excited though - By: C. Stroud, 13 Mar 2004
I saw this first in the cinema, but had forgotten the majority of the plot by the time I got round to seeing it again. It is a very well done film, sinister & yet also entirely possible. The acting is high class, & the plot is easy to grasp yet effective. An enjoyable fim - well worth seeing. If you don't buy it, rent it out one evening; this is chillingly realistic. However, it is not a film you can watch countless times, you can only reallly watch it at intervals as otherwise it becomes too predictable.