Universal Pictures has released a new featurette for the upcoming swimming pool horror film Night swim. The film comes from Blumhouse and Atomic Monster and the new video introduces the producers Jason Blum AND James Wantogether with the writer/director Bryce McGuire, explaining the inspiration behind the upcoming horror film. It also includes some new footage.
The video was accompanied by the following note: “Don’t run. Don’t dive. No lifeguard on duty. Don’t swim after dark. Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the makers of M3GANa dive into the depths of horror with the new supernatural thriller, Night swim.”
Blum says in the promo, “Even if, in your mind, you understand that the pool is only a few feet deep, when the lights go out, anything could be underneath you.” The director goes on to say that he wants people in the room to hold their breath.
You know, I’ve never been afraid of swimming pools. Hell, I’m the guy who spent time surfing in the ocean at night. I don’t think this movie will instill any kind of fear in me, but it looks like it will be a fun movie, the goal of which is apparently to instill people with a fear of swimming pools.
Night Swim centers on a family who finds themselves dealing with a nightmarish supernatural presence that resides in the backyard pool of their new home.
In the story, “Secretly hoping, against all odds, to play professionally again, Ray convinces Eve that the new house’s sparkling backyard pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy. But a dark secret in the house’s past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family into the depths of inescapable terror.
The film is based on the 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst AND Bryce McGuireand becomes the protagonist Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Ray Waller, “a former Major League baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative disease, who moves into a new house with his worried wife Eve (Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin), her teenage daughter Izzy (Amelie Hoeferle – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and young son Elliot (Gavin Warren – Fear the walking dead).”
Night swim is produced by James Wan (Saw, InsidiousAND The evocation franchising) e Jason Blum (Halloween movie, The black phone AND The invisible man).
Night swim will be released in theaters on January 5, 2024.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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