“Night Swim” hits theaters later this week, and Universal Pictures invites you to take a deep dive into their featurette about the titular possessed pool.
It’s the nightmare pool party of all time. The sun is shinning. The grill is hot. People are jumping into the pool, while others are swimming. It’s the picturesque summer. That is, until that the pool is not what it seems. And then you come to find out why people shouldn’t be sticking their hands inside of the valves.
What will be interesting to see is how the in-water camera works conveys the visual storytelling. Not only that, but the production looks incredibly sophisticated as there are a variety of factors to consider, like what the hair is doing while underwater and how deep they can get with certain shots. Also at play are the different number of teams at work using the camera, telegraphing messages through hand signals or speakers. Not only that, but the talent has to be able to swim and hold their breath for a shot. Overall, it should be a fun movie-going experience to kick off the new year.
The film stars Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren.
Night Swim is written and directed by Bryce McGuire (writer of the upcoming film Baghead) and is produced by James Wan, the filmmaker behind the Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring franchises, and Jason Blum, the producer of the Halloween films, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man. The film is executive produced by Michael Clear and Judson Scott for Wan’s Atomic Monster and by Ryan Turek for Blum’s Blumhouse.
“Night Swim” opens in theaters on January 5, 2024.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for “Night Swim:”
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.
