Night Swim
Réalisation:
Bryce McGuirePhotographie:
Charlie SarroffMusique:
Mark KorvenActeurs·trices:
Kerry Condon, Wyatt Russell, Nancy Lenehan, Ben Sinclair, Jodi Long, Eddie Martinez, Gavin Warren, Amélie Hoeferle, Ellie Araiza, Elijah J. Roberts (plus)VOD (3)
Résumés(1)
Ray Waller est un ancien joueur de football américain qui a dû abandonner sa carrière en raison d’une maladie dégénérative, lors de son emménagement dans une nouvelle maison, avec sa famille : sa femme Eve, leur fille Izzy et leur plus jeune fils. Ray, contre toute attente, ne désespère pas de reprendre sa carrière et persuade toute la famille que la piscine qui se trouve dans le jardin sera parfaite pour sa rééducation et pour ses enfants. Mais cette maison cache un lourd passé et ils vont sans le vouloir réveiller une force malveillante qui va tous les précipiter aux tréfonds de l’horreur absolue. (Universal International FR)
(plus)Critiques (4)
Un nanar d'horreur de janvier à la noix, sans aucune idée originale et avec une exécution encore plus nulle. C'est comme si Jason Blum, sur un coup de tête, avait tout à coup ordonné : « Make me... eh... a haunted pool movie in one week. Go! » Tout est terne dans ce film, copié selon un schéma vu et revu des centaines de fois, sans énergie, sans rien de mémorable. Personne n'a pris la peine d'aller plus loin que de juste le faire visuellement ressembler à un film de cinéma. Un excrément au fond d'une vraie piscine serait plus effrayant et – c'est malheureux à dire – plus créatif que ce pseudo film d'horreur.
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The premise with the mysterious and dangerous swimming pool is quite original, but unfortunately it doesn't provide enough material to fill the entire running time in any interesting way. It's an hour and a half long, and it's still too long. After half an hour, the escalating situations start to get repetitive and just boil over (sic!!), and by the last tense twenty minutes it starts to get ridiculous too, there's a lot of black liquid spitting and tearing, and the bland and young Wyatt Russell tries in vain to convey any emotion. Most of the time it didn't offend me with its stupidity, but I still don't understand the cinema release, this only belongs on stream. In the case of Kurt Russell, as well as, say, Clint Eastwood, it's true that their sons don't have much charisma or acting talent.
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The first mainstream horror film of the year and it is, as expected, a yawner. The haunted pool idea could have been original, but it's generic to the point of woe in every way. No atmosphere, the scares don't work, it's so light and soft in every way. I'm pretty sick and tired of genre flicks like this. Not fun. 4/10.
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I've seen a possessed house, possessed dolls and possessed animals, but a possessed swimming pool, that new, and I think it's obvious why. Because the whole thing is just one extremely boring piece of nonsense with no tension, supporting characters or a better idea, and watching people floating in a pool with no peripheral vision, while the shot looks like the character is swimming in an endless ocean, and therefore completely implausible and uninteresting, really doesn't do it for me. The monsters are nonexistent, the make-up effects are bad, the idea is rubbish and the only saving grace that separates this film from a Boo! rating is the fact that I (thankfully) didn't see it in the cinema but watched it at home. Avoid it.
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