The high concept supernatural thriller Night Swim is out in theaters now, plunging a family into an aquatic nightmare thanks to a haunted swimming pool. It also happens to be based on a 2014 short film of the same name by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, and you can watch it right now. When speaking with McGuire […]
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Expanding a horror short to feature length is tricky work, particularly when the short in question gets straight to the scares. Writer/Director Bryce McGuire’s 2014 short Night Swim, a collaboration with Rod Blackhurst, cut straight to the horror to exploit everyone’s worst fears about swimming pools. Almost a full decade later, McGuire’s feature expansion showcases more ways to […]
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This week brings the arrival of Night Swim, a high concept horror feature from writer/director Bryce McGuire that centers around a haunted swimming pool with murky, supernatural depths. Night Swim arrives in theaters on January 5, 2024, and the film employed as many practical effects as possible to submerge viewers into its aquatic nightmare realm. Based on the acclaimed […]
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Everything you fear is under the surface in writer/director Bryce McGuire’s Night Swim. At least, that’s the case for stars Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon, as a couple who discover that their new swimming pool isn’t all that it appears. Ahead of the film’s theatrical release on January 5, 2024, Bloody Disgusting spoke with Russell and Condon about wading into […]
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This week brings the arrival of Night Swim, a high concept horror feature from writer/director Bryce McGuire that follows a family who awakens a terrifying supernatural presence in the backyard swimming pool of their new home. Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell (Overlord, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”) as Ray Waller, a […]
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