Night Swim: Bryce McGuire's Captivating Film Celebrates Youth and American Dream 🌊

A backyard swimming pool.<br /><br />A symbol of youth, status and wish-fulfillment, quintessentially American yet universal in its shimmering appeal. A life-enhancing luxury to those who can afford the cost, an absolute necessity for those poor souls who live in the most hellishly hot of places. A heavenly playground for people of any age, a devilish hazard for those tempted by its cool, sky-blue waters yet who lack the ability to tread its deepest, darkest parts.<br /><br />Especially at night.<br /><br />Based on his own acclaimed 2014 short film, Night Swim high dives into the deep end of horror as it takes the most banal pleasure of suburban life and transforms it into a wellspring of demonic evil in a movie that combines the style, impishness and wicked world-building that audiences have come to expect from  horror film powerhouses Jason Blum and James Wan, with the eerie vibes and emotional resonance of classic eighties-era chillers like Poltergeist and Pet Sematary.<br /><br />As the film floats into theatres across the globe this week, Peter Gray spoke with a collective of the creatives involved in bringing this thriller to life, including writer/director Bryce McGuire, who spoke about expanding his short to feature length and if he'd personally survive the rules he has put into play.