Night Swim Movie Featurette - Pool Party Possession
US Release Date: January 5, 2024
Starring: Amélie Hoeferle, Kerry Condon, Wyatt Russell
Director : Bryce McGuire
Synopsis: 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.
US Release Date: January 5, 2024
Starring: Amélie Hoeferle, Kerry Condon, Wyatt Russell
Director : Bryce McGuire
Synopsis: 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.
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Short filmTranscript
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 Hello.
00:27 Oh my god.
00:30 Ah!
00:31 Big hammer's dead.
00:32 Ready, and action.
00:34 Exactly.
00:35 You oftentimes don't see movies that feature
00:37 real in-water 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.
00:56 [GASPING]
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 [GASPING]
01:24 [SCREAMING]
01:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:30 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:33 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:36 [BLANK_AUDIO]