The Wan/Blumhouse machine continues to roll out some interesting titles, this time it’s Night Swim, about an evil swimming pool. That concept may sound trite, but have you ever been swimming in a pool at night with the lights off? It can be both exhilarating and terrifying.
All the elements are here for a cursed object movie, from graveled disembodied voices to grabby invisible hands, what we have here, is a haunted house movie; but this time, it’s a pool. Before we get too cynical, let’s remember that WanBlum also did their take on a sentient doll movie, and that did pretty well.
Let’s also remember that Wan has been working on his underwater opus Aquaman 2 so he may have taken some of the skills he learned from that film and applied them here to help out director Bryce McGuire. Perhaps Wan can’t save DC, but he can stay somewhat in his lane and give us an effective underwater cursed object movie.
McGuire has mostly done short films. In fact, Night Swim is based on one he did of the same name back in 2014.
Let us know what you think of this upcoming film that hasn’t gotten a release date yet. It is listed on IMBd as a 2024 release. Maybe an early “first horror movie of the year” January-wide-release schema would work here as well as it did for M3GAN. Conversely, this would make a perfect summer movie.