Night Swim sinks with low Rotten Tomatoes rating after first reviews
Horror film Night Swim has been certified rotten based on its first reviews.
The film, which features Marvel star Wyatt Russell, is a supernatural thriller which follows a former major league baseball player who moves into a new home with his wife after being forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness.
The film's official synopsis reads: "Everything you fear is under the surface.
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"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 was inspired by a short film from 2014 of the same name by writer and director Bryce McGuire, who returned to direct the feature-length version. Alongside Russell, it also stars The Banshees of Inisherin's Kerry Condon.
Critics have not been kind to the film, with The Boston Globe's Odie Henderson even going as far as to call it: "The worst movie I've seen in years."
Other reviewers have criticised the film for not being scary enough, and used pretty much every water-related pun possible to express how much they disliked it.
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Below Digital Spy has rounded up some of the top critics' reactions to Night Swim.
"The movie seems destined to sink quickly to the bottom of our cultural memory and, like a few swimmers in this demented pool, vanish altogether."
"It just never goes far enough with its ridiculousness to reach pure entertainment, and it certainly can't be taken seriously enough to justify its melodrama."
"Restores a certain order to the cinematic universe by being as tepid and unscary as a proper early-in-January movie should be."
"Despite the filmmaker's best efforts to drum up suspense via the usual jump scares, Night Swim turns out to be just as silly as it sounds."
"A lighter touch? A nastier rating? A sense of humour? Something is missing from Night Swim, nothing up on screen to insist this as anything else but more-of-the-same first week filler. Pool empty."
Night Swim is out now in cinemas.
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