No running. No diving. No lifeguard on duty. No swimming after dark.
Universal Pictures, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse (via FearHQ.com) have released the first trailer for Night Swim, an upcoming horror movie about a family who moves into a new house only to discover that their swimming pool is haunted.
Yes, that really is the premise - and if you think it sounds a bit silly, just wait until you see the teaser!
The trailer begins with the family arriving to and getting settled in their new home, before cutting to a pair of teens playing Marco-Polo in the pool. When the guy sneakily makes his exit, the girl keeps on calling "Marco," even when supernatural s*hit starts happening beneath the surface (I think the game might be over, love).
To be fair, Night Swim has (somewhat surprisingly) managed to assemble a very strong cast, with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters star Wyatt Russell and recent Academy Award-nominee Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) playing the leads.
"Night Swim is a very spooky haunted pool movie," Blumhouse's Ryan Turek tells EW. "Because it was developed by Atomic Monster, it's got all of the heart and soul that comes with a James Wan film and a lot of underwater nightmare imagery that I'm excited for people to see."
Check out the trailer for yourselves along with a poster, and let us know what you think in the comments section down below.
"Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, who moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve (Oscar nominee Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin), teenage daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle, this fall’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and young son Elliot (Gavin Warren, Fear the Walking Dead).
Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home’s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror."
Night Swim is written and directed by Bryce McGuire (writer of the upcoming film Baghead) and is produced by James Wan, the filmmaker behind the Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring franchises, and Jason Blum, the producer of the Halloween films, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man. The film is executive produced by Michael Clear and Judson Scott for Wan’s Atomic Monster and by Ryan Turek for Blum’s Blumhouse.