Night Swim (2024) review

Former MLB player Ray Waller (Wyatt Russell) moves into a new house with his wife Eve (Kerry Condon) and children Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle) and Elliot (Gavin Warren) where he soaks in the backyard pool to treat his multiple sclerosis and finds it actually has therapeutic properties ... but as time goes on it's clear the pool is possessed and the monsters inside tend to grab people and stuff them into the drain pipe.  There is the barest effort by McGuire (in his feature debut) to expand on a short film and turn it into a proper full-length movie (which is very rarely a wise choice), but it's sorely lacking in so many areas: the "backstory" of the water - which is supposedly "fed" by a some sort of cursed spring - is preposterous and it's mostly committed to setting up its jump scares involving various outcasts from the team at Troma popping up to snag ankles (and still retaining that PG-13 rating to lure in the kids).  To its credit, it does try for a feel-bad ending ... but a better one would have been Elliot used as the "sacrifice" and Ray returning to the Milwaukee Brewers as their all-star third baseman....