There isn’t a single scare tactic in Night Swim that isn’t familiar from countless other films. From the start, horror tropes abound: jump scares punctuated by loud noises on the soundtrack; voices emanating from a drain; creepy mud-soaked girls crawling out of the water; promises of ancient curses; computer searches that lead to missing persons; apparitions that disappear the moment they appear; and teary, rain-soaked goodbyes. Except it all happens around a private swimming pool, which here remains about as frightening as a fish tank.
Ray Waller (Wyatt Rusell) is a former third baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers who’s had to swallow the pill of an early retirement after being diagnosed with relapse-remitting Ms. His condition is worsening, and, to help keep the family afloat, his wife, Eve (Kerry Condon), takes an admin job at the local public school, which is cheekily named after Harold Holt, the...
Ray Waller (Wyatt Rusell) is a former third baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers who’s had to swallow the pill of an early retirement after being diagnosed with relapse-remitting Ms. His condition is worsening, and, to help keep the family afloat, his wife, Eve (Kerry Condon), takes an admin job at the local public school, which is cheekily named after Harold Holt, the...
- 1/4/2024
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
Stars: Marnie Baxter, David Powell, Bruce McGuire, Barbara Di Bartolo, Michele Bevilacqua, Matt Patresi, Massimiliano Ubaldi, Roberta Picconi | Written by Rogan Roberts, Tim Pickett | Directed by Tim Pickett
Written by Rogan Roberts and Tim Pickett and directed by Pickett himself, The Tormented is a dramatic horror movie about a couple who attempt to begin again after losing their young son in an awful car accident. They find themselves in an Italian town called Calabria, a town that slowly, over the course of the film, reveals itself to be much more than they’d expected. Can you say “Mafia” and “Cult”? I’m there.
There are various attributes and vehicles I love in horror and in drama, and the implementation of a cult in the story is one of them. Be it a more religious and realistic cult in a gritty human drama, or a supernatural cult in a horror film,...
Written by Rogan Roberts and Tim Pickett and directed by Pickett himself, The Tormented is a dramatic horror movie about a couple who attempt to begin again after losing their young son in an awful car accident. They find themselves in an Italian town called Calabria, a town that slowly, over the course of the film, reveals itself to be much more than they’d expected. Can you say “Mafia” and “Cult”? I’m there.
There are various attributes and vehicles I love in horror and in drama, and the implementation of a cult in the story is one of them. Be it a more religious and realistic cult in a gritty human drama, or a supernatural cult in a horror film,...
- 6/20/2019
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
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