| 🎬 Directed by | Bryce McGuire | 🎬 Music by | Mark Korven |
| 🎬 Writer | Bryce McGuire | Rod Blackhurst | 🎬 Running time | 1h 30mins |
| 🎬 Stars | Wyatt Russell | Kerry Condon| Amélie Hoeferle | 🎬 Language | English |
| 🎬 Edited by: | Jeff McEvoy |
However, a tween girl in pigtails reaches out to the boat on an endless search for it at night when she was devoured into the swimming pool in ‘92. Today, a family occupies the same house that has an aged pool about to collapse under the use of many years.
Against the backdrop of a supernatural struggle and a family’s illness, “Night Swim” tries to weave themes of bereavement, sacrifice, and the unknown horrors that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary life. The story takes off with a strong prologue but quickly drags when it gets to the present.
By its pool-centric hauntings and jump scares, McGuire successfully reveals the talent for simple yet breathlessly effective horror comedy within Night Swim. But Bryce McGuire, the writer and director, was unable to create and carry out a strong script.
The simile that he was making seemed to be this, “The place may look inviting but it is unreliable”. The groans of the diving board indicate uncertainties about what awaits ahead and there are also incessant gurgles and burps from the filter creating a disturbing rhythm.
The second part of the film is littered with beautifully Christmann moments such as a High Maintenance cameo from Ben Sinclair, who plays pool repairmen immersing in side witty monologues on how we evolved to deal and develop relationships around water.
The Waller clan remains hopeful about the stability and healing they expect from the place outside of Twin Cities, even if initially facing their cleaning up in it were too much. Playing the sickly former baseball star Ray Waller and Kerry Condon playing his spouse Eve, Wyatt Russell pays a visit to his spouse.
For all of them, the pool holds forth hope: therapeutic waters, entertainment during the afternoon hours of time for a social life and also a chance to lay in peace beneath the skies. McGuire often employs the distorted underwater angles to unsettle us, and this technique can work for a while.
Yet in the end, this over-reliance on jump scares and a certain scene where someone within the pool thinks he or she sees something from behind while nobody is there sets it.
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