There’s a problem in the Blumhouse… erm, house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While their batting average is still respectable, the studio has begun to strain against audience tastes and expectations. Same-y films about a central group of characters where a weird, thinly obfuscated thing happens to them before a strong core shock… how many of their pictures can be summarized as such? It’s frustrating to see the studio behind greats like Get Out<\/strong> and M3GAN <\/strong>struggle at the box office and with critics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet the hits just keep on coming — or don’t, in this case. Get ready for a dunk into ice cold mediocrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Night Swim<\/a><\/strong> is a bland entry into the Blumhouse catalogue centered on a haunted swimming pool set on destroying a young family. Bryce McGuire adapts his short (also called \u201cNight Swim\u201d) into his directorial feature debut. The film follows the Waller family: former pro-baseball player Ray (Wyatt Russell<\/a>), forced to retire early due to multiple sclerosis; his wife Eve (Kerry Condon<\/a>); and their children Izzy (Am\u00e9lie Hoeferle) and Elliot (Gavin Warren). With Ray forced out of the league (temporarily, he hopes), the family is looking to buy a house and put down roots. Their chosen house happens to have a disused swimming pool in the yard. The kids are excited for a pool, and Ray will use it for physical therapy. Everyone is happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until they have been in the house for a bit, and everyone starts seeing things in and around the pool. Eve takes a swim and thinks she sees Ray standing at the side of the pool, but he’s in bed. Next, Elliot is swimming when a girl named Rebecca tries to lure him into a crevice in the pool. (The audience knows her as the previous victim of the pool, from 1992 — her demise is in the opening scene.) Finally, while having a boy over while her parents are out, Izzy is nearly drowned by someone or something. Meanwhile, the pool seems to have a healing effect on Ray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n