Adapted from the director's 2014 short film, this limp gateway thriller finds a generic family (ill former baseball-player father, stoic working mother, teen daughter and younger son) relocating and renovating the swimming pool in the back garden, but as the father's health miraculously improves and the family members start to experience horrible visions and near-accidents, a thirty-year-old tragedy may be about to repeat itself as sinister forces go to work. Somewhat dull and slow, Blumhouse's attempt here to make swimming pools scary does little to grip or to excite. The narrative has the feel of a muddled lesser Stephen King short story, as the stick-a-family-in-a-house-and-see-what-happens formula is threadbare here, and there are eye-rollingly overfamiliar Jaws references used, mixed with steals from the urban supernatural terrors of Poltergeist and The Amityville Horror and a couple of J-Horror nods for good measure. Overall, Night Swim has little impact.
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