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Jan 5, 2024 · Teenage daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle) has gotten better at fitting in by maintaining an attitude of cool detachment, but younger brother Elliot ( Gavin Warren ), a shy, scrawny kid, hasn’t been as successful. The pool offers a sense of promise for all of them: healing waters, afternoon diversions, a social life, a quiet moment under the stars.
Night Swim has a few creepy scenes, but overall, this suburban horror story is too bland and predictable to really be scary. Read Audience Reviews. Critics Reviews View All (171) Critics Reviews.
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Jan 4, 2024 · It becomes an oasis. And for a while, the pool seems to be helping Ray get better. But this is a horror film, so the Wallers cannot have nice things and, unfortunately, neither can we. “Night ...
Jan 8, 2024 · Night Swim is better than reviews suggest. A great January horror movie about a haunted pool, it has some scares and a strong baseball subplot. In theaters now.
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By Katie Rife
Updated: Jan 5, 2024 6:34 pm
Posted: Jan 5, 2024 6:27 pm
In a way, Night Swim is a return to form. The horror genre’s creative and cultural ascent has meant that the genre’s most recent offerings in early January – traditionally a “dumping ground” for stillborn projects like The Forest or The Devil Inside – have actually been pretty good. In 2022, the rebooted Scream kicked off the year in horror. In 2023, it was the instant camp classic M3gan. But that winning streak ends in 2024. January is a doldrums month once again, thanks to one unlucky family and their cursed pool.
Following a splashy (pun intended, as are any that follow) opening kill, Night Swim introduces the Wallers, a family of broadly sketched characters whose nomadic lifestyle comes with dad Ray’s (Wyatt Russell) job as a professional baseball player. Mom Eve (Kerry Condon) handles their frequent moves with grace – she was a Navy brat, one of two things we learn about her in the course of 98 minutes – and quiet resentment. Daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle) seems like a normal, rebellious teen, and in fact, she’s the most credible human being in the movie. But son Elliott (Gavin Warren)? Well, they’re worried about him.
Not as worried as they are about Ray, whose recent multiple sclerosis diagnosis ended his athletic career. The one upside to this cataclysmic situation is that the Wallers can finally afford a house in a California neighborhood unconvincingly standing in for the Twin Cities suburbs. Eager to put down roots, the Wallers rush into a suspiciously good deal on a place with an in-ground pool – suspicious not because it’s a stupid thing to have in your yard in a state where it’s too cold to swim 10 months out of the year, but because of the mysterious deaths and disappearances linked to said man-made lagoon.
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Night Swim effectively exploits primal fears around water, but its comedy and horror chops aren’t strong enough to keep it from drowning in its more clichéd elements.
- Katie Rife
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5 | Apr 9, 2024. Jeff Beck The Blu Spot. Night Swim may have worked just fine as a short film back in 2014, but stretched & padded out to feature length, the idea ...
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Jan 4, 2024 · Wyatt Russell. ‘Night Swim’ Review: It’s ‘The Amityville Horror’ in a Swimming Pool, With a Fear Factor That’s All Wet. Reviewed at Universal Screening Room, Jan. 3, 2024. MPA Rating ...
