Love it or hate it, Blumhouse continues to do what it does best: make lean, low/mid-budget genre films that help the studio fund its more prestigious fare. And while the quality of these movies varies, there’s certain charm to these B-movies, with Jason Blum more often than not giving young directors a chance to have more creative freedom than they’d get at a larger studio.
So where will “Night Swim” fall on the Blumhouse B-movie spectrum? From the premise alone, it’s hard to tell. Bryce McGuire remakes his 2014 short of the same name into a feature in the upcoming pics, about a former MLB player whose family moves into a house with a haunted swimming pool. Read on for an official synopsis, courtesy of Blumhouse:
“Night Swim” stars Wyatt Russell 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) teenage daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle) and young son Elliot (Gavin Warren). 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.
“Night Swim'” also stars Nancy Lenehan and Jodi Long. Along with directing “Night Swim,” McGuire also pens the film’s script. James Wan and Blum lead the movie’s production team. Michael Clear and Judson Scott co-executive produce through Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, as well as Ryan Turek through Blumhouse.
“Night Swim” arrives in theaters on January 5, 2024, courtesy of Universal Pictures. Will the film be 2024’s version of “M3GAN” for Blumhouse? Watch a trailer for the movie below to speculate.
