The psychology at work in a film like Night Swim deals with the fact that water can be inherently scary to a lot of people. Why is that? Kerry Condon, who stars in the film with Wyatt Russell, has her own theories about why a horror film about water appeals to some of our darkest instincts.
So yes we went to see the new Horror movie
Night Swim and its our first movie of 2024!
Now I thought it was pretty good
its pretty much a classic Haunted House movie
but the house isn't actually Haunted but its the
in ground pool that is haunted and of course there
is a reason for that which is explained in the movie.
Your basic story is the family is moving to a
new town were the mom (played by Kerry Condon)
will be closer to work and she
is going to school to become a teacher and the
Dad (played by Wyatt Russell) was a professional
Baseball player but had to quit because he is
developing MS. So they are looking for a new
place and none of them seem right until they
find this place which has an amazing in ground
pool. The Doctor has told Wyatt Russell's
character that swimming is good for MS and that
is one of the reasons they buy the house.
So they move in and get the pool ready and everything
and they are living a happy life and then things
start to slowly begin to happen
the kids and the wife are seeing and being
bothered/attacked by some type of creature?
I believe this to be the physical manifestation
of the Evil that lurks in the water.
but the pool is having a different effect on the
Dad as it is healing his MS
and when that happens as he get more and more
healthy the evil in the pool begins to possess
him and that is when things really start to
go crazy.
It hits all horror bench marks for a
usual Haunted House or real Haunted anything
movie being you have
Stage 1 where it is the build up to
stuff happening usually
Stage 2 is stuff actually happening
Stage 3 is Discovery this is where they
find out the history/backstory/lore
about the Haunted whatever
Stage 4 Showdown how to stop it
I feel Horror movies like these can be summed up
in the quote from Jeff Goldblum's
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts.
Then later there's running and screaming.
but seriously though I thought it was pretty
good being that the pool was the thing that was
haunted it felt interesting and different
some of the filming that was done in the pool and
under water was really well done and the
visuals for things like I don't know what to
call it "the deep?" where the evil lived
with in the pool it was almost like a alternate
universe with all the people it had collected
was cool and reminded me of something else
but I can't think of it at this moment.
Now I didn't find the movie really scary
but it did have like the right amount of
creepiness and should make you wonder about
pools from now on lol
but yeah I if you want to give it a watch
I would say go for it.
While NIGHT SWIM the feature was a misfire, the short film it's based on was really cool. Director Bryce McGuire is back to the short format with Every House is Haunted, a horror short that's not really a horror film but rather an experimental drama. The indie vibe created by the production design and cinematography, works well for the story. Does this need to be adapted into a feature? Nope, but most shorts shouldn't.
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