Night Swim (2024)

[Darth Marcus]

Source: Deadline

Atomic Monster & Blumhouse Going For ‘Night Swim’ With Wyatt Russell & Kerry Condon; Bryce McGuire Directing & Writing
Anthony D'Alessandro - January 10, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: In their next collaboration following the $30 million-plus opening success of this past weekend’s M3GAN, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse are making Night Swim starring Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon. Bryce McGuire will direct and write the supernatural thriller which is built around the hidden source of terror found in an iconic backyard swimming pool. The film is based on the short film created by McGuire and Rod Blackhurst.

Cameras will roll soon for a January 19, 2024 theatrical release through Universal.

James Wan and Jason Blum are producers on the film. Their companies Atomic Monster and Blumhouse are in final talks to merge. Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Judson Scott and Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek are EPs. Alayna Glasthal will be the creative executive overseeing the film for Atomic Monster.

Russell will next be seen starring in the Apple+ and Legendary Television’s Untitled Godzilla Series, alongside Kurt Russell, Anna Sawai, Ren Watabe, Kiersey Clemons, Joe Tippett and Elisa Lasowski. Following, Wyatt will be seen in Marvel’s upcoming film Thunderbolts, alongside Florence Pugh and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Disney is slated to release this project July 26, 2024. While the exact plot is still being kept under wraps, this will be a reprisal of Russell’s acclaimed role in the Disney+ series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Most recently, Russell was seen in FX’s acclaimed limited drama series, Under the Banner of Heaven, alongside Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sam Worthington. Also last year, offscreen, Russell starred and executive produced the new QCode action podcast series Classified. His previous film credits include: Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!!, which was nominated for a Gotham Award in the category of Best Feature; Jeff Grace’s Folk Hero & Funny Guy, for which he starred in, wrote and played all the live guitar performances; Ingrid Goes West; Overlord; Joe Wright’s Hitchcockian drama, The Woman in the Window; Ethan Hawke’s Blaze alongside Sam Rockwell and Kris Kristofferson, among several others. On television, his previous credits include the Blumhouse Television limited series for Showtime, The Good Lord Bird alongside Ethan Hawke; starring in AMC’s Lodge 49 which Russell reprised his role for both seasons; and Netflix’s critically acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror.

Condon can currently be seen starring opposite Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in Martin McDonagh acclaimed film, The Banshees of Inisherin. Condon has garnered rave reviews as well as Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance as Siobhán. She will next be seen in the upcoming thriller In The Land Of Saints And Sinners alongside Liam Neeson and Ciarán Hinds. Condon’s film credits include Angela’s Ashes, the Academy Award-winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Bad Samaritan; Dom Hemingway opposite Jude Law; and the Oscar winning short film The Shore, among others. Condon lends her voice to the role of “Friday” in Avengers: Endgame, Infinity War and Age of Ultron as well as in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Captain American: Civil War. On television, she was recently seen as “Molly Sullivan” in the third season of Showtime’s Ray Donovan as well as the series’ successive movie and appeared on shows such as Women on the Verge, Better Call Saul,  Luck and Rome. In 2009, on stage, she appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan, also by McDonagh, for which she won a Lucille Lortel and a Drama Desk award.

After graduating AFI, McGuire slashed onto the genre scene with the sale of his original spec, The White Room, to Amblin/Picture Company and work on Never Ever for Blumhouse and Baghead for StudioCanal/Picture Co. McGuire is currently working with Vera Farmiga on the surrealist comedy series Tabloid Dreams for Bron Studios.

Russell is represented by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.

Condon is represented by CAA, Curtis Brown Group, Framework Entertainment, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.

McGuire is represented by Gersh and Logan Clare at Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.

Wan is represented by CAA, Stacey Testro International, and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light.

[Bubbles-11]

Rated PG-13 for terror, some violent content and language

[russweiss1]

This trailer has been playing lately but it doesn't make the film look very good. I'll see it anyway but I don't have high expectations.

[MikeScott]

Originally Posted by russweiss1

This trailer has been playing lately but it doesn't make the film look very good. I'll see it anyway but I don't have high expectations.

Yeah same. The teaser does nothing for me. I wish they could have come up with something better to attach to this fall's horror movies.

[Zivouhr]

Night Swim is supposed to release in January 2024 in theaters? About a demon ghost in the swimming pools. I would think Summer would be ideal for this theme. Sort of like releasing a Christmas movie during summer wouldn't be great timing.

[MazeRunner]

This looks awful.

[pikeman1]

new trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhlLO3Nb3sY

[pikeman1]

produced by James Wan and all they could think about is The Nun!?

[russweiss1]

I saw a second trailer for this (prior to Silent Night) that actually makes the film look decent. Unfortunately, it also gives away a lot more scenes.

[VictoryAtNight]

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[Edo]

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[HipsterTrash]

Absolutely. So down for this. Love all the new debut horror films getting budgets.

[Resident Evil Labs]

This looks like a fun ride, hope it's good.

[Member-866753]

Some reviews are up. Sounds disappointingly tame.

"Sadly, it drowns across most of the board, resulting in a tepid scarer that doesn’t do justice to its intriguing premise and McGuire’s evident enthusiasm for the genre." - AU Review


"For a film where the concept is that it’s about a pool that kills people, there’s barely any of it as it’s subdued by a PG-13 that holds back the film from having any real impact, especially with its deaths." - Next Best Picture


"Night Swim‘s scares are modest at best, causing only minor ripples for those looking for a shocking horror fix." - Punch Drunk Critics

[HipsterTrash]

Only makes me want to see it more.

[Blu Myers]

My review:

Here we go. The first horror film of 2024, and it falls in line like most. Night Swim won't change the game up. It might be forgotten in a few months, but I have to give it its due.

It's at least ambitious in its story, trying to keep the scares creative and unpredictable. It somewhat succeeds on that front. And there are a few genuine chills. The pool setting offers some nice atmosphere in the evening scenes.

It keeps with the Blumhouse tradition. There's better. There's worse. Fair play January. Fair play.

3.2/5

[Britnasty]

2/5

Just got home from the press screening with my friend and well….i was whelmed.

There is such a good premise here but they don’t really execute it well. The title of this is also stupid as hell. I get not calling it

[Show spoiler]The Wishing Well

right out but give us something more clever.

I do chuckle that when things start happening with the pool and the entity, Kerry Condon just jumps on her MacBook and with one Google search figures everything out. It was the most preposterous scene.

I had so many questions. All these people have disappeared because of this pool but no one asks questions or figured anything out beforehand?

This film could have been something good but they fumbled it.

[chad_1138]

Saw it this evening. Nothing extraordinary, but definitely worth a watch. Probably a one and done. A good use of an A-List reservation. 3/5

[The Great Owl]

Three and a half stars

A idea of a haunted swimming pool does not quite exude the same sense of unnerving menace as that of a haunted house. After all, if people realize that a swimming pool is haunted, then they can simply decide not to swim in it. The challenge faced by the 2024 horror feature, Night Swim, written and directed by Bryce McGuire as a feature-length expansion of his 2014 short film of the same name, is that, in order to be remotely watchable over the course of its 98 minutes, it must depict the evil entity taking its time to sink its (pool) hooks into its unsuspecting new owners so that they do not avoid it altogether or fill it in with dirt right from the get-go.

Thankfully, after a chilling opening sequence, the primary narrative gets underway by acquainting us with the main characters, Ray and Eve, a married couple played by Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon, in a leisurely fashion as they come to terms with the fact that Ray's professional baseball career is coming to a close after he has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and as they decide to move to a new house with their two children. The backyard pool initially seems like a dream come true, because Ray's water therapy results in a notable improvement in his symptoms, even reversing some of the brain lesions. Eve and the children are somewhat less charmed, especially after a few swimming experiences that have them trying to convince themselves that their eyes and ears are playing tricks on them, but they are reluctant to voice their uneasiness out of consideration for the father's plight.

Night Swim blatantly rips off Stephen King stories much of the time, particularly during a sequence where the youngest child reaches into one of the pool skimmers to retrieve a lost toy. I give a pass to the derivative aspects, though, because I do love the visuals when unfortunate characters go underwater only to realize that they are so deep that the surface of the pool appears as a tiny lighted rectangle far above them.

Viewers of previous films released by Blumhouse Productions will walk into this one with a good idea of what to expect. Night Swim is a middling affair as a scary tale, but it still entertains in the sense that horror movies are like pizza, because even the bad ones are pretty good. If, like me, you have a soft spot for throwaway cinema that is offloaded into theaters during January of each year, then I recommend that you jump right in instead of just dipping one toe into the water.

[therealjondoe]

This was pretty fun
A few parts that make you squirm.