No running. No diving. No lifeguard on duty. No swimming after dark. One of the coolest scenes that ever took place at a pool party currently goes to A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, but the peeps over at Nightswim are promising a hold my beer moment.
Check it out:
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.
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).
For reference check out Freddie’s pool party. The character is barely in this film, but this scene makes up for his lack of presence, trust me.
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.
#NightSwimMovie is only in theaters Friday. Get tickets: https://www.nightswim.movie/tickets/