Film Review – Night Swim

“Night Swim” began life as a little-seen three-minute-long short film from 2014, and now, a decade later, it’s a 98-minute-long picture looking to dominate multiplexes in the horror-friendly month of January. That’s quite a leap for writer/director Bryce McGuire, who’s tasked with building an entire world around the idea of a haunted swimming pool and all the evil contained within, searching for fresh victims. McGuire doesn’t have a particularly strong idea driving “Night Swim,” but he has an opening half, dealing with the mysteries of the semi-deep and introducing a collection of troubled characters forced to deal with the wicked pool and its weird way of taking lives. It’s the rest of the feature that quickly loses consistency, finding the screenplay’s pass at explaining everything nowhere near as interesting as its ambiguity, with the mystery at the heart of the endeavor failing to pay off a decent set-up. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com