NIGHT SWIM

James White

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 98 minutes ▸ Director Bryce McGuire ▸ Cast Kerry Condon, Wyatt Russell, Nancy Lenehan, Amélie Hoeferle → In the past year or so, Blumhouse has brought us a killer doll, a scary creature in the closet and some haunted animatronics, to name but a few. So why not a spooky swimming pool? Writer/director Bryce McGuire, here adapting the short he created with Rod Blackhurst, pitches the idea of a family moving into a home boasting a backyard pool with a dodgy history. Early on, as you can guess if you’ve seen the trailer, the film follows the predictable jump-scare route (it’ll certainly make you rethink playing Marco Polo in a darkened body of water, though that’s probably not a good plan anyway). But as…

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