“No running. No diving. No lifeguard on duty. No swimming after dark.” That’s the tagline of Atomic Monster and Blumhouse’s new horror, a super new supernatural thriller, “Night Swim,” that’s based entirely on swimming at night in your own swimming pool.
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It sounds a little small-scale and self-contained, and well, it kind of is. The basic logline is: a woman swimming in her pool at night is terrorized by an evil spirit. “Night Swim” is based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire.
This version is from the producers of horror breakout film “M3GAN” stars Wyatt Russell (“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”), Oscar nominee Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Amélie Hoeferle (this fall’s “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”), and Gavin Warren (“Fear the Walking Dead”). Russell and Condon are pretty big names, but this trailer suggests the movie’s star is relative newcomer Amélie Hoeferle.
Here’s the official synopsis:
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.
“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.
High dive into the deep end of horror with “Night Swim.” The film opens in theaters on January 5 via Universal Pictures. Watch the new trailer below.
