New Night Swim Featurette Explores a “Pool Party Possession”

Crafting a horror movie can bring a lot of challenges to a production, as a specific tone and vibe must be crafted to adequately keep a viewer on edge, and if those challenges weren’t already big enough obstacles, the upcoming Night Swim also incorporates terror being crafted in water. In a new behind-the-scenes featurette for the movie, the cast and crew explore the difficulties of pulling off the ambitious experience and how it blends together a variety of filmmaking techniques to make for an unnerving adventure. Check out the new featurette below before Night Swim hits theaters on January 5th.

The featurette is described, “Roll back the pool cover for an inside look at what lurks beneath these waters. No running. No diving. No lifeguard on duty. No swimming after dark. Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the producers of M3GAN, high dive into the deep end of horror with the new supernatural thriller, Night Swim.”

Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) 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 (Oscar nominee 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.

Night Swim is written and directed by Bryce McGuire (writer of the upcoming film Baghead) and is produced by James Wan, the filmmaker behind the Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring franchises, and Jason Blum, the producer of the Halloween films, The Black Phone, and The Invisible Man. The film is executive produced by Michael Clear and Judson Scott for Wan’s Atomic Monster and by Ryan Turek for Blum’s Blumhouse.

Night Swim hits theaters on January 5th.

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