Today brings us the first trailer for Blumhouse and Atomic Monster’s Night Swim, based on the critically-acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire. If Jaws made people scared to get in the ocean, this one may very well ruin swimming pools for audiences forever.
Here’s an official plot synopsis, via press release:
“[Night Swim] stars Wyatt Russell as Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, who moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve (Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin), teenage daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle, this fall’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and young son Elliot (Gavin Warren, Fear the Walking Dead).
Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home’s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror.”
Sounds good! Now, let’s see it in action…
This looks like it could be a lot of fun, and very much in spirit with the short film that inspired it (Bryce McGuire returns to direct here, by the way)! We have no idea what sort of dark secret this house might be hiding, nor why it might manifest itself in the form of a haunted swimming pool, but we’re certainly curious to find out when the film hits theaters.
When will that be? For the time being, Night Swim does not have an official release date (the poster above simply tells us that it’s “Coming Soon”), but rest assured that we’ll be keeping our ear to the ground for further updates on this one. Stay tuned for those and, in the mean time, maybe stay the hell out of your backyard swimming pools until we figure out what the hell is going on down there.
