Night Swim – Movie Review
ABC Film Challenge – Horror – N
Director: Bryce McGuire
Writer: Bryce McGuire, Rob Blackhurst (Screenplay)
Cast
- Wyatt Russell (Overlord)
- Kerry Condon (Banshees of Inisherin)
- Amelie Hoeferle (The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbird and Snakes)
- Gavin Warren (12 Mighty Orphans)
- Jodi Long (Shang-Chi)
Plot: A family moves into a new home, unaware that a dark secret from the house’s past will unleash a malevolent force in the backyard pool.
Runtime: 1 Hour 38 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Night Swim starts when the Waller family, Ray (Russell), Eve (Condon), Izzy (Hoeferle) and Elliot (Warren) move into a new home. They are looking to settle down as Ray needs to step away from his professional baseball career due to an illness. The new home has a swimming pool, which can offer some therapy he needs.
However, each member of the family suffers a strange incident in the pool, which doesn’t make too much sense. It leads to the family conducting an investigation and the family learning a much darker secret about the home.
Verdict on Night Swim
Night Swim is a horror thriller about a family who buys a new home to start a fresh life. However, they discover the house has a curse connected to the pool and they have been targeted as the next victims. They must figure out how to end the curse before it is too late.
This movie has an interesting story behind the spooky goings, even if most of the haunting stuff doesn’t hit the scare factors. We get the typical investigation, which dives into something much deeper. It is the pure horror side of the film which suffers, nothing feels scary, a few peekaboo moments, which you can see coming a mile off. It might well have something else going on, but that side of the story seems to fall flat and we are left with an uninteresting horror that doesn’t hit any marks.
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Final Thoughts –Night Swim struggles to dive into the horror enough.
