نائٹ سوئم، ایک اچھی ہارر مووی اور ایک بہتر خاندانی سانحہ کے بارے میں ہر کوئی غلط ہے۔

January is a special time for horror fans. The holidays are over, the new year is just beginning, and the horror options at the box office are as much of a mixed bag as they’ll be all year. Some years, we get great conversation-starters like M3GAN, لاپتہ, or سینٹ موڈ. Other years, we suffer through ایک اور رنجش۔ ریمیک. But most of the time, January is a great spot for weird little curiosities like گریٹل اور ہانسل, پانی کے اندر، یا انفینٹی پول — movies with tremendous bright spots that are a little too uneven to be great.

The requirements for something good in January, for most horror fans, are just that it’s interesting and/or entertaining. And despite what some reviews are saying, the “haunted swimming pool” movie نائٹ سوئم is both. It’s got one terrifically creepy sequence, a genuinely fascinating family story, some solid jokes, and a thermal spring that’s also sort of an ancient god. And if that still isn’t enough for you, it’s also weirdly as much about baseball as it is about swimming at night.

The movie follows the Waller family as they move into a new house. The dad, Ray (a terrific Wyatt Russell), is a baseball star suffering from multiple sclerosis, but harboring dreams of playing again one day. His wife, Eve (Kerry Condon), is more than capable of taking care of things around the house, since Ray’s career previously kept him away for days and weeks at a time. And the kids, Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle) and Elliot (Gavin Warren), are desperate to settle into a new school for good this time, after years of moving wherever their dad got traded. They’re hoping they might even be able to play some sports themselves. Also, their new house features a magic swimming pool — but that’s a revelation for later.

جبکہ نائٹ سوئم’s PG-13 rating ensures the imagery never heads too far into the deep end, Bryce McGuire’s directorial debut is still pretty haunting on occasion. The opening scene, in which a small girl falls victim to the mysterious pool, is particularly terrifying. The girl chases her brother’s toy boat around the pool as its lights flicker and shadowy figures appear all around her in the darkness. It’s an impressively creepy little set-piece, but it also sets the perfect tone for the movie. نائٹ سوئم’s best scares are the ones that lurk just outside what we can see, whether that’s at the edge of the pool or the edges of what the movie’s characters say and do.

The best example of that, believe it or not, is in the movie’s baseball subplot. Ray isn’t a bad father, necessarily, but it’s clear that his passion for baseball has left little room in his heart or head for anything else. He’s moved his family around constantly, he’s been gone for huge portions of his kids’ lives, and he missed his wife giving birth to their first child because he was on the field.

The movie never suggests what we should do with any of this information, or whether we should judge him for it, apart from making it clear that he’s done his best. There’s no question that he loves his kids and his wife, but his love for them fills in the cracks of the passion he built his life around, not the other way around. It’s a profoundly quiet kind of tragedy for a horror-comedy about a killer pool, but the silliness around Ray’s situation is what makes it hit so hard, and lets it tie back into the pool situation so nicely.

[ایڈ۔ نوٹ: The rest of this review contains lore and theme spoilers for نائٹ سوئم.]

The pool in the Wallers’ new backyard is, as it turns out, connected to a magic spring that people used to worship thousands of years ago. The spring would bring its followers their greatest desire, but in exchange, they had to sacrifice a life to the pool. The ancient people figured this out and used it consciously, but the modern world tends to be less aware of supernatural costs.

Ray never knows the rules of the magical pool, or why it suddenly starts to heal his MS. He just knows he’s getting stronger, and that his physical therapy in the pool is helping him heal. So when the pool starts presenting a danger to his kids, he barely even notices. He’s getting what he wants, after all.

صرف ایک بار نائٹ سوئم chooses to make its metaphors louder than this is when Eve confronts the house’s previous owner (and the pool’s previous user), an older woman who can’t help but constantly brag about her son. He was a wonderful boy who spent his childhood sickly, she says, but after their stay in the house, he magically recovered and has turned into an impressive young man. When Eve confronts the former owner about whether she ever had a daughter, the woman finally expresses نائٹ سوئم’s pitch-black fear out loud, effectively saying “It’s better this way.” She didn’t mind sacrificing her daughter for her son.

It’s a fantastically bleak scene, aided by clever makeup effects and disgusting-looking black water, and it lays out the movie’s fear elegantly. It’s the book version of شائننگ, refracted through the shallow end of culture: What if a parent’s personal desires outweighed their love for their kids? نائٹ سوئم explores the point where Ray is ultimately willing to stop putting his passion for baseball ahead of his family, even if he doesn’t realize the ways he’s doing it.

That’s a fascinating question that the movie’s set-piece finale can’t quite live up to: It trades in its fantastic subtlety in favor of an کپٹی-like trip through a spirit world. But the fact that the movie raises questions about priorities and parenting at all is enough to elevate it beyond its seemingly silly premise. For most of its run time, نائٹ سوئم is a much deeper and more incisive look at quiet familial dysfunction than most movies that make that their whole focus.

اس کی خاندانی کہانی کی تمام طاقتوں کو ایک طرف رکھتے ہوئے، قاتل سوئمنگ پول کے بارے میں کسی فلم سے کچھ زیادہ ہی خوفناک منظر دیکھنا شاید مناسب ہے۔ پول ہارر کے کچھ تفریحی بٹس ہیں۔ نائٹ سوئم، جیسے اسکیمر کے فلیپ کے پیچھے ایک اور دنیا دیکھنا یا خالی ڈائیونگ بورڈ کی بہار کو چلانے کے لیے انتباہی نشان کی طرح کھیلنا۔ اس کے افتتاحی منظر سے باہر، اگرچہ، نائٹ سوئم بھوکی روحوں اور قدیم دیوتاؤں کے بارے میں سب سے خوفناک فلم نہیں ہے۔ لیکن ارے، یہ جنوری ہے۔ ہارر کے پرستار وہ لیں گے جو ہم حاصل کر سکتے ہیں۔ بعض اوقات اس کا مطلب جادوئی تالابوں اور بیس بال کے بارے میں ایک دوسری صورت میں دلچسپ خاندانی فلم میں صرف چند اچھے ڈرانے ہوتے ہیں - جو کہ بنانے کے لیے کافی سے زیادہ ہے۔ نائٹ سوئم دلچسپ، دیکھنے کے قابل جنوری ہارر کی فہرست میں ایک قابل اضافہ۔

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