The Night Swim (spoilers)

[OneFrenchEgg]

What did anyone think? It was really creepy in places but started to get a bit daft after a while and I felt ended quite badly.

I just went by myself - love a coffee, bag of sweets and a late-night Blumhouse with a budget of about 10 dollars!

I enjoyed it. It was definitely a metaphor for family dynamics - there was some foreshadowing when the Dr said they could build a new life together with some sacrifice, and in the preference of one child over another, especially with the family from the opening scenes.

Not sure why it was called Night Swim though!

That sounds lovely, I'm thinking of getting annual cinema membership so I can go whenever (alone!)
I missed that at the beginning, will watch out for it when it's on tv.
Did you feel bits of it were lifted from IT?

Not sure why it was called Night Swim though!

I've not seen the film but I've read the book, and it's absolutely obvious in the book why it's called The Night Swim, so I assume that the film mustn't be true to the book.

In the book, there is a rape trial happening in the present day. A legal journalist/podcaster is covering the trial and investigating. She is asked to investigate the death of a girl in the same community some (20?) years earlier. The girl allegedly died swimming at night.

I don't think it's related to the book. It's based on a short film written and made by the same director.

In the film, a baseball player with a degenerative illness (think they said MS) and his family buy a house, and find out a little girl went into the pool 30 years ago and disappeared. But the spooky happenings occur any time of day or night for the rest of the film. She went in to retrieve a toy for her brother.

I thought it was because she drowned at night (the little girl) but I am quite simplistic

Travelled out in -3 to watch the last showing in my cinema ( didn't last long!) And I'm disappointed, and I love a Blumhouse horror!

There were about 4 creepy bits throughout and I really didn't feel like they focused on the horror enough, I can't even say it went 0-60 in a flash as it felt more like 0-25 at a tepid acceleration.

Sorry, missed the "It" question - I suppose it was. The film seemed a bit confused, as that was the only time the "evil" manifested as the little girl lurking in a drain - we saw the spirit/whatever of the actual girl right at the end. Other times it was black water, a rotting face, a figure on the side, and something invisible giving people a push/wobbling the diving board.

I did wonder how the mother of the girl with the disabled brother (now cured) knew the whole story and had bought into it when the research done by current day mum showed a whole history of missing people