Night Swim

This isn't a great horror film, but it outranks the majority of PG-13 horror films released over the past few years.

A family buys a home with a huge unused pool. HUGE. It looks like it belongs at a resort, not in a backyard. But I overlooked that and watched as strange things begin to happen in it. Curiously, the family continues to swim despite this fact. I would have drained that thing within the first half hour.

Reminder to anyone playing Marco Polo. You can open your eyes if the person you are playing with seems to have disappeared.

The acting is solid, especially by the members of the family. The dad was played by Wyatt Russell who my friend told me is the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. Oscar nominee Kerry Condon plays the mom.

The film creates some tension throughout and the eventual explanation for what's happening felt fresh compared to the mostly recycled garbage the horror studios feed us. I refuse to see one more Exorcism film or Conjuring spin off.

The under water cinematography was surprisingly good with the exception of one scene at the end that looked quite fake and had me rolling my eyes.

The ending was satisfying without the added annoyance of trying hard to set up a sequel.

Worth a look if you're in the mood for a mindless horror flick. Just leave your high expectations at the door before you dive in.

The story is bland, predictable and often boring. They rely too heavily on cheap jumpscares. Almost walked out of the theatre midway through to go do something more exciting like cleaning the bathroom. Pacing was fine, I guess, but everything was rather boring overall. The characters all have extremely convenient backstory's and skills and they aren't very complex.

The soundtrack was fine and there were some interesting shots. Acting was okay as well but nothing spectacular.

This movie falls into the type of horror movie that sits in purgatory in my "continue watching" list on Netflix.

Overall 3/10.

The reviews make this movie look like a disappointment, however, it's par for the course for a horror movie. The acting is pretty good, the plot is very intriguing, and the only failure is the effects. The monster is not consistent, it looks different literally every time we see it, and the effects are Ghostbusters level, or maybe worse actually. Like, clearly animated. But otherwise it's a pretty good movie and actually gave me the heebie jeebies once or twice. The script is intriguing enough with one scene that is a little cringey (feat. Old woman) but what else can we expect from a horror movie? Worth the watch.

This film was bland. Can't say it was bad, can only say it was not worth it.

I like Wyatt Russell, what's not to like, he's the son of Kurt Russell, that's a lot to like. He heads up a movie with a long subplot about an ex-baseball player, for whom baseball is everything until an illness takes him out of the game forcing him to get to know his family better.

It would have been a nice family drama if the (lack of) horror did not get in the way.

This was not scary, not frightening, nothing got me excited, not enough star power in the film to look at to make it worth looking at.

I'm very surprised this made it into theatres instead of premiering on Hulu or Shudder.

I can only say wait for it to come out on one of these streaming channels cause it's a waste of money otherwise.

The film is terribly clichéd. Take any other horror film and compare it with this one and you won't see any difference. Quite a good story with water, but when you see the monster you start laughing.

The heroes are like some kind of Aquamen, they spend SOOO long under water that you start to think who will kill them first, a monster or lack of oxygen?

The acting is pretty good. I believe them, although at some points they underplay very much.

The editing of the film is just weird. Scenes are cut short and at some points we don't even see who is speaking or what is happening.

P. S. The ending of the film is very fast and choppy. They just closed their pool but this raises a question. Do other residents have water that doesn't come from this source? And where is this source located? Was it really only one family that lived here and why don't they talk about the others?