Night Swim

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Night Swim

PG-13

Released Jan 5

1h 38m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, who moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve (Oscar® nominee Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin), teenage daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle, this fall's The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and young son Elliot (Gavin Warren, Fear the Walking Dead). Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror.

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Critics Consensus

Despite a promising start and a handful of solid scares, Night Swim is undone by a premise that just isn't strong enough to support a feature-length film.

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Night Swim has a few creepy scenes, but overall, this suburban horror story is too bland and predictable to really be scary.

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Sergio Burstein

Los Angeles Times

It opts, in turn, for a Hollywood-esque correct esthetic, lacking in surprises and assuming an air of stubborn solemnity. [Full review in Spanish]

Jan 30, 2024

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Joey Shapiro

Chicago Reader

Night Swim might be the first movie to star a haunted pool, but its story beats are interchangeable with any other horror movie in the microgenre of kindly fathers turning mean after a real estate–based possession.

Jan 13, 2024

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

There comes a point where it almost feels as if McGuire was making it up as he went along. So little of this thriller make sense that it’s impossible for it to generate a lasting emotional impact.

Rated: 1.5/4

Jan 7, 2024

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James Preston Poole

The Cosmic Circus

Night Swim is a shallow genre exercise that goes in one ear, out the other.

Jul 13, 2024

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Nelson Acosta

Koimoi

The film doesn’t know what to add to its premise to take the story somewhere that doesn’t feel cliché or overdone.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 3, 2024

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Kevin A. Ranson

MovieCrypt.com

Imagine the pool scene from Poltergeist stretched to a hundred minutes long... none of it as interesting as the original short... the title would have made more sense to just call it Haunted Swimming Pool.

Rated: 1/4

Jun 9, 2024

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Ciara

the movie I'm not sure how it went because I'm an action first type of gyal so I fell asleep within the first 20 mins

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/23/24

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Stephanie

had potential from seeing the trailer. but sitting there was boring and a complete waste of time.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/20/24

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Logan

very predictable and mediocre

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

04/19/24

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Cyrus

While I thought that the ending was a bit cheesy and uninteresting for the most part. This movie was still very well made for its setting. Very good popcorn flick.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/17/24

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Kay

This movie had no plot and the characters didn't seem connected in any way. For a "scary" movie, there was no intensity in the buildup of action.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/03/24

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Tunde

I’m giving this 4 stars STRICTLY BECAUSE IT IS NOT A BAD movie. I saw complaints about this movie being a predictable horror movie? I liked it and it happy jumpy moments. If your favorite movies are Oscar worthy, then horror in general isn’t for you. It has one purpose and that is scaring you. I enjoyed it. Really hard to trust ratings anymore because society has become so hard to please and people don’t watch movies in theater anymore except for real passionate movie goers.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/24/24

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Bryce McGuire

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Wyatt Russell

Ray Waller

Kerry Condon

Eve Waller

Amélie Hoeferle

Izzy Waller

Gavin Warren

Elliot Waller

Nancy Lenehan

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Synopsis

Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, who moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve (Oscar® nominee Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin), teenage daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle, this fall's The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and young son Elliot (Gavin Warren, Fear the Walking Dead). Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror.

Director: Bryce McGuire
Producer: James Wan, Jason Blum
Screenwriter: Bryce McGuire
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Atomic Monster, Universal Films, Blumhouse Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Some Violent Content|Language|Terror)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 5, 2024, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 23, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.5M
Runtime: 1h 38m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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