IMDb plot summary: 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.
Directed by Bryce McGuire. Starring Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, and Amélie Hoeferle.
Night Swim follows a former baseball player and his family who buy a home with a pool so he can do water therapy for his MS. While the water seems to do wonders for his illness, the rest of the family starts seeing unsettling visions of a creature in the water, and they start unraveling the mystery. Look, as someone who can't swim and finds water inherently scary, I was all prepared to be unsettled by this, but it doesn't take any advantage of the premise at all. I didn't find a single actual scare in here, and I was the prime audience! On top of that, the rules of the evil make very little sense in an irritating way, the dialogue is full of terrible exposition, and the acting is pretty thin. A good campy low-budget horror is a lot of fun, but this isn't that, it's just disappointingly bland all the way through.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Night Swim < Selma
Night Swim < Frozen River
Night Swim > Mission to Mars
Night Swim > The World Is Not Enough
Night Swim < The Goonies
Night Swim > The Expendables
Night Swim < Domestic Disturbance
Night Swim < A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Night Swim < On the Town
Night Swim < Bad Moms
Night Swim > The Italian Job (2003)
Night Swim < Batman Begins
Final spot: #3078 out of 3866, or 20%.
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