Night Swim

How did this get into theaters? I'm glad I didn't have to pay a penny for it. Almost nothing worked for me here. The whole story felt like something out of a scary fairy tale and not a very good one at that. I think I fell asleep the first time I saw it, and the second time I almost fell asleep, too. I don't think there's a single thing I need to lay out, except maybe that I want to take that pool home because it was awesome. Otherwise, it's the ultimate borefest and the "haunting" was severely mismanaged. (28/09/2024)

Chlorine-soaked Poltergeist, or you could be Kurt Russell's son and still not realize that a dangerous entity is wreaking havoc in your home pool. The director is from Florida, so his fear and respect for water are understandable (after all, where else can you have a non-inflatable alligator in your pool?). The theme of the 'sinister swimming pool' doesn’t offer much in terms of options, but it floats along in decent technical execution and without any notable effort to truly scare until its odd conclusion. Couldn’t they have turned it into a skate park instead? (05/02/2024)

The premise with the mysterious and dangerous swimming pool is quite original, but unfortunately it doesn't provide enough material to fill the entire running time in any interesting way. It's an hour and a half long, and it's still too long. After half an hour, the escalating situations start to get repetitive and just boil over (sic!!), and by the last tense twenty minutes it starts to get ridiculous too, there's a lot of black liquid spitting and tearing, and the bland and young Wyatt Russell tries in vain to convey any emotion. Most of the time it didn't offend me with its stupidity, but I still don't understand the cinema release, this only belongs on stream. In the case of Kurt Russell, as well as, say, Clint Eastwood, it's true that their sons don't have much charisma or acting talent. (24/03/2024)

I've seen a possessed house, possessed dolls and possessed animals, but a possessed swimming pool, that new, and I think it's obvious why. Because the whole thing is just one extremely boring piece of nonsense with no tension, supporting characters or a better idea, and watching people floating in a pool with no peripheral vision, while the shot looks like the character is swimming in an endless ocean, and therefore completely implausible and uninteresting, really doesn't do it for me. The monsters are nonexistent, the make-up effects are bad, the idea is rubbish and the only saving grace that separates this film from a Boo! rating is the fact that I (thankfully) didn't see it in the cinema but watched it at home. Avoid it. (28/01/2024)

The first mainstream horror film of the year and it is, as expected, a yawner. The haunted pool idea could have been original, but it's generic to the point of woe in every way. No atmosphere, the scares don't work, it's so light and soft in every way. I'm pretty sick and tired of genre flicks like this. Not fun. 4/10. (26/01/2024)