The new trailer for Universal Pictures’ Night Swim opens with a scene similar to IT, with a pool drain subbing in for a sidewalk curb inlet. A child notices something floating in the drain and reaches for it when suddenly a grotesque arms shoots out and grabs the young girl.
A cat becomes a victim of whatever is haunting a backyard pool, and the home owner’s children seem to be particularly sensitive to the supernatural pool dwellers.
“My kids have seen things and I’m worried something is happening to my husband?” says the mom, played by Oscar nominee Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin).
The cast also includes Wyatt Russell (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters), Amélie Hoeferle (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), and Gavin Warren (Fear the Walking Dead).
Bryce McGuire (Baghead) wrote and directed the horror film, with James Wan (The Conjuring) and Jason Blum (Five Nights at Freddy’s) producing. Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Judson Scott executive produce along with Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek.
Night Swim opens in theaters on January 5, 2024.
Night Swim Plot, Courtesy of Universal Pictures:
Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film 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 (Condon), teenage daughter Izzy (Hoeferle) and young son Elliot (Warren).
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 Trailer Dives Into a Haunted Pool
- Featurette with the Cast and Writer/Director Bryce McGuire
