Night Swim

When I was 10 I was scared of swimming pools, not for any logistical reason because they aren't scary at all; which Night Swim demonstrates in it's entirety. But because I had an irrational phobia of sharks. Now if the pool summoned a demon shark that ate people, that would change everything and maybe then I could get on board with this movie.

Utterly dreadful from the plot, to the effects to the script. Contains all the usual references/prompts and very, very predictable. Not even mildly scary. Skipped through most of it.

This is seriously getting an unfair shake so I'm here to defend a movie that I feel reviewers weren't even paying attention to with some of the things being said. Is it a masterpiece? No. It's a movie about a haunted swimming pool. It answers the questions you can ask. It answers why they don't stop going in. It answers why they don't just leave. It answers how this keeps happening. You just actually have to pay attention. The effects arent great. For some reason at one point they decided using a CGI toy boat was a better idea than just buying a toy boat. The acting is solid, even the kids and that's rare. If you're looking for something that should win an Oscar maybe don't watch a movie about a haunted swimming pool. The premise is fun. It was a fun watch. It's an hour and a half so it doesn't overstay. It's fine.

the movie I'm not sure how it went because I'm an action first type of gyal so I fell asleep within the first 20 mins

Do not go into the pool, there is an Idea...

Sucks. The biggest problem this has is the whole idea just isn't scary and is a stupid idea at its core. and if by some miracle you even did make it a good idea it still isn't executed well at all either. The editing, pacing, cinematography is all terrible here. It feels like once the family moves in, stuff just happens. Half the time you could either rearrange or cut almost every scene and it wouldn't change hardly anything anything outside of the ending 15 minutes or so. There are just some dumb scenes also. The pool can posses people so why doesn't it posses the other people who used it at the party to stop them from destroying it at the end? Than there are stupid pointless jump scare, basic direction, and half the time it's so dark during night time it looks the most boring. Not so dark you can barely see though so credit there. The Dad who is setup as the main guy it almost feels like we forget about him for like the whole 30 minutes leading to the end also. It never really keeps the kids, wife, or parents together consistently either so it ends up feeling jumpy and pointless honestly. The whole sister swimming with her boyfriend feels pointless. Visiting the Asian family before felt pointless also. There really isn't any way to defeat it so it just wins in the end with the taking the Dad so it all ends up feeling like everything else was pointless. That being said the acting isn't good and the soundtrack isn't either. No one really has much chemistry and while the parents are fine enough the kids really aren't anything special and defintely weaker than the parents performance. and they end up taking a bigger role in the second half so it shows. More than anything too this isn't scary at all. Just stupid and pointless. Half the jumpscares you can see coming involving the pool a mile away and the other half make no sense. Skip this. Completely stupid idea and a waste of time.

started off promising but really fell half-way towards the end. Dad's character arc is just giving Amytiville Horror which is so overdone. the family had great chemistry though and I wish they could've dived more in the lore of the monster haunting the pool.

I was scared. I was entertained. 5 stars

Remind me to never take recommendations from my 10 year old ever again. Whoever agreed to fork over the funds to make this movie, give me a call. I have a script about a squirrel that makes a mean chicken pot pie.

Good film, But it's WAY too predictable to scare anyone