Check out the latest featurette for the upcoming horror film Night Swim focused on a specific scene where a pool party gets possessed and the process behind filming it underwater.
Night Swim is a new supernatural thriller from Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the producers of M3GAN. Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) 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 (Oscar® nominee Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin), teenage daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle, this fall’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and young son Elliot (Gavin Warren, Fear the Walking Dead).
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.
Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren star in Night Swim. Night Swim is written and directed by Bryce McGuire (writer of the upcoming film Baghead) and is produced by James Wan, the filmmaker behind the Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring franchises, and Jason Blum, the producer of the Halloween films, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man. The film is executive produced by Michael Clear and Judson Scott for Wan’s Atomic Monster and by Ryan Turek for Blum’s Blumhouse.
Night Swim releases in theaters on January 5, 2024.
Night Swim is a new supernatural thriller from Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the producers of M3GAN. Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) 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 (Oscar® nominee Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin), teenage daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle, this fall’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and young son Elliot (Gavin Warren, Fear the Walking Dead).
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.
Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren star in Night Swim. Night Swim is written and directed by Bryce McGuire (writer of the upcoming film Baghead) and is produced by James Wan, the filmmaker behind the Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring franchises, and Jason Blum, the producer of the Halloween films, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man. The film is executive produced by Michael Clear and Judson Scott for Wan’s Atomic Monster and by Ryan Turek for Blum’s Blumhouse.
Night Swim releases in theaters on January 5, 2024.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 We will roll on this rehearsal so we can look at playback.
00:13 That's a hailing mark.
00:15 We are shooting the nightmare pool party of all time.
00:18 Happy sunny day.
00:20 But this swimming pool hides a terrifying secret.
00:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:27 Hey, my coffee!
00:30 Ah!
00:31 Big camera's dead.
00:33 Ready, and action!
00:34 Exactly.
00:36 Oftentimes, you don't see movies that feature real in-water
00:38 camera work.
00:40 There's so many aspects to underwater camera work.
00:42 It's very tricky.
00:43 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:47 The shot we're leading up to today
00:49 involves sort of the water POV.
00:52 The camera is going to rush into his mouth.
00:55 I read the hatchet of my breath.
00:59 You have to think about, OK, where are the bubbles traveling?
01:02 What does the hair do?
01:03 How deep can we get?
01:05 How long can the actress hold her breath?
01:09 You rely heavily on signals and underwater speakers.
01:14 There's a lot of people that got to come
01:16 together to prep for this.
01:19 It's incredibly sophisticated to do.
01:22 Marco.
01:23 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:26 (electronic music)
01:29 [BLANK_AUDIO]