Night Swim

"Uneven but scary."

"As tepid and unscary as a proper early-in-January movie should be."

"Despite the filmmaker’s best efforts... 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."

"A fun, funny, often genuinely unnerving horror movie experience."

"What lurks under the surface? Nothing interesting."

"Quite effective in its first half, scattered and woozy in its second."

"We’ll take what McGuire has to offer every day of the week."

"Nothing... will change how you feel about horror, or even swimming, but it fulfils its brief with efficiency and style."

"The worst movie I’ve seen in years."

"Persistently provocative."

"Great cast, but a familiar formula and simplified mythology threaten to sink it all."

"The issue with Night Swim isn’t that it’s ridiculous, it’s that it doesn’t understand quite how ridiculous it is."

"Generic but enjoyable."

"Doesn’t have the smarts to embrace its own stupidity."

"(McGuire) makes effective use of sound design and camera angles to create a lingering, unsettling mood."

"Effectively exploits primal fears around water, but its comedy and horror chops aren’t strong enough."

"Bizarrely intriguing."

"(McGuire) knows exactly what he’s doing... especially when it comes to the deliciously sadistic grammar of suspense."