‘Night Swim Review: Its ‘The Amityville Horror In A Swimming Pool, With A Fear Factor Thats All Wet
A year ago, M3GAN, one of the most successful films produced by Blumhouse Productions, opened its first weekend in January and was an exception to the suspense thriller rule. The movie was clever and sarcastic, the killer robot script actually had something to say about artificial intelligence, and it gave us the year's most memorable android dance, at least until Jenna Ortega's Wednesday. Adams danced with her hands to Lady Gaga's Bloodthirsty song. But now, in the same weekend of Junkie Yard, we've got another Blumhouse production, Night Bath, which restores the order of the cinematic universe, and is as gritty and gritty as a true early film should be.
Night Bath is about a family that moves into a house with a haunted swimming pool, and it's all about the ghosts that control the pool: ghostly backstories, greenish-brown sludge from the drain, and moving puppets. . The ghoulish people standing by the pool before it disappears, the splashes of water themselves are random and derivative, reminiscent of Amityvale horror films.
This, however swampy, should have been called The Horror of Aquatival, and some may take that as a hint. But I didn't care for the "evil" flies and the sleazy, pardy-filled atmosphere of the Amityville movies. The night's headliner suggests a college pool party high, and that's exactly what it turns out to be: the horror film 12 Feet Under. Instead, it's a family horror movie , and here it feels PG-13 rated throughout. Writer-director Bryce McGuire is incompetent, but when he turns it into a thriller like Ringu, you realize how easy it is to be surprised. Despite the "pool of hell" theme, we don't feel like we're immersed in a horror movie.
Perhaps because we wanted to immerse ourselves in the story of the Wallers, a good family moved to a nice residential street in the Twin Cities even as they were recovering from their injuries. Ray Waller, played by the MCU's Wyatt Russell with a mustache that makes him look like James Cameron's annoying academic brother, plays the third professional baseball player for the Milwaukee Braves to be sidelined after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He walks with a cane and the disease increases. The last time he visited the doctor, he was told to forget about baseball again. Ray tries to see the bright side of everything. This can be an opportunity to stop the family movement and break down roots. That's what his wife, Eva, played with desperation in Kerry Condon's Banshee. He tries to see Ray's predicament as an opportunity.
All this combined with the right amount of psychological tension creates a wonderful feeling. This film plays on Ray's dissatisfaction with the situation. However, the night journey evokes all this but removes it all, creating a situation that becomes more confusing and restrictive. The doctor recommends hydrotherapy to relax Ray's muscles, and the pool is more effective than expected. After diving there, Ray begins to gain strength; He will be saved by a miracle. To put it mildly, the pool gives but also takes. Use the movie's tagline: "Love requires sacrifice."
The ghostly girl is introduced in the opening scene, a 1992 flashback named Rebecca, and as her long black hair floats out of a pool hole, you think "Ringo" for a moment. . (or a very good American version). Most of all, you will notice how much fun this show is. When the Waller family's teenage daughter Izzie (Amelie Hoverly) plays Marco Polo blindfolded in a swimming pool, there's a weird and funny moment when a character muttering "Polo" calls her a "monster" on "Marco." - What about spoiled potatoes? But what kind of monster is this? This is another manifestation of the evil of the swimming pool, or another moment that the director has brought to excite the audience for the next episode.
Yes, ghost stories can be like that: the supernatural comes in many forms. This is what happened in the first two films of The Conjuring, directed by James Wan (one of the producers). They also had a random quality, but also a repulsive energy; Fan, the magic technician, uses the camera to create tension in your nervous system. In last year's haunted house movie, Skinnamarinc, the ghosts express themselves in different ways, all of which were fascinating; His loving looks and sounds have entered your soul. This does not happen in a night trip because everything is telegraphic as it originates. The film's sense of dread is very wet.
