If you’ve ever pondered the fear of the swimming pool, have I got a film for you.
I once had to be dragged out of one and resuscitated, so pools are on my bad list, though I do still love to be around them.
In “Night Swim,” a nice family with small kids buys a house with a lovely pool in the backyard, figuring this will provide amusement and exercise for the kids as well as a good place to have people over for recreation and barbecues. It will also provide exercise for dad Ray Walter (Wyatt Russell), a former baseball star who had to quit the majors due to injury.
The family loves the new place and the folks who live nearby…until strange things start happening. The pool lights seem unreliable and it even looks like something weird is appearing from the deep water. A ghost?
But Ray loves the pool and the heavy weights he lifts to keep fit. And the kids Izzy (Amélie Horferle) and Elliot (Gavin Warren) love it too, until…..
You can’t guess the rest of the story, but you can safely assume it’ll just get weirder and weirder until something really unpleasant happens.
This is one of those films that doesn’t require cogitation, but a willingness to go along with a goofy plot that may make you rethink some of those things everybody considers desirable.
Director Bryce McGuire co-wrote this water-soaked 98-minute thriller with Rod Blackhurst, and both setting and cast (including Kerry Condon as mom Eve Walter) are excellent.
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