Swimming pool horror ‘Night Swim’ is getting brutal reviews

nme.com:

Banshees of Inisherin). The feature debut of director Bryce McGuire, the film concerns a possessed swimming pool in a suburban family’s backyard.

The movie is based off a 2014 short film of the same name by Macguire and Rod Blackhurst.In the first wave of reviews, critics have near unanimously panned ‘Night Swim’.

In a two-star review, Benjamin Lee at The Guardian wrote: “It’s the sort of bottom-shelf concept that feels more at home in the 80s, alongside Blood Beach, Death Bed and Killer Workout and there’s not not some trashy fun to be squeezed out of such a lurid premise.”“The essential problem with ‘Night Swim’ is that no matter how McGuire might try (and credit to his ability as director, he really does put in the effort), the pool is never the terrifying setting it needs to be,” he wrote.Zachary Barnes at The Wall Street Journal agreed by writing that ‘Night Swim’ “doesn’t have the smarts to embrace its own stupidity”.

He went on to praise Condon’s acting performance as “good”, in contrast to Russell, calling him “as wooden as the baseball bat hung up in his character’s garage.”He added: “Mr.