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Night Swim
Everything you fear is under the surface.
Rating
0.8 (2)
Release Date
1/3/2024Runtime
98 minsOverview
Forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, former baseball player Ray Waller moves into a new house with his wife and two children. He hopes that the backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for himself. However, a dark secret from the home's past soon unleashes a malevolent force that drags the family into the depths of inescapable terror.
How It Feels
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A supernatural home-invasion horror that uses the intimacy of a family's private retreat against them, building mounting dread through a haunted pool that becomes increasingly inescapable. The terror is grounded in a father's deteriorating body and his family's vulnerability, making the supernatural threat feel deeply personal.
Mood
UnsettlingDread-soakedClaustrophobicBleak
Themes
FamilyGriefMortalityIsolation
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Body horror
Reviews
The cast was solid and the acting was okay, but the story began to drown in itself as the movie progressed, especially with that terrible ending.
Don't go for a swim with this one.
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