Haunted Pools, Kaiju, And Drinking Buddies Reunite In This Week's Three Trailers

By Jen Maravegias | Film | December 8, 2023 |

By Jen Maravegias | Film | December 8, 2023 |

Blumhouse continues the horror movie tradition of pools being A Very Bad Idea in their next project, Night Swim. Starring Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Amélie Hoeferle, and Gavin Warren (Fear The Walking Dead), Night Swim is about a former major league baseball player (Russell) forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness. He persuades his wife that their new swimming pool will be fun and good for his recovery. “But 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.”

I’m going to be super mad if it turns out to have been built over a cemetery that was supposed to be moved, but only the gravestones got relocated. Or if an “Old Indian Burial Ground” is involved.

Night Swim opens in theaters on January 5th.

Everyone’s favorite slouch, Jake Johnson, directs and stars in Self Reliance on Hulu in January. The film also stars Andy Samberg, Emily Hampshire, and Wayne Brady. It also reunites Johnson with his Drinking Buddies costar, Anna Kendrick. It is the kind of witty, absurdism that Lonely Island has proven they can deliver when the stars align. And it’s Jake Johnson’s sweet spot. So this should be fun.

Self Reliance will be available to stream on Hulu beginning on January 12th.

Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse will continue expanding in 2024 when Godzilla and King Kong team up against mysterious creatures from the hollow earth that threaten their lives and our own in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. At the end of 2021’s Godzilla vs Kong the titans parted as reluctant allies, so it makes sense that the follow-up would continue with that idea. In the long history of Godzilla movies, he’s teamed up with other Titans but never the giant ape. It’s an idea whose time has come. I guess? It’s going to be hard to follow Godzilla Minus One.

A lot is going on here. We’ve got Son of Kong, some other-worldly sh*t that looks a lot like Gozer The Gozerian making an entrance. And giant versions of the murderous apes from Congo. If it all seems a little too ridiculous, let me remind you of Minilla.

Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, and Kaylee Hottle reprise their roles in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. The cast also includes Dan Stevens (Legion), Alex Ferns (The Batman), and Fala Chen (Irma Vep). It will open in theaters on April 12th.

This week’s laginappe is three of your greatest fears wrapped in a trench coat called No Way Up. The movie starts with an airplane crash that strands the survivors in deep waters with a dwindling air supply. And then there are sharks on a plane! Samuel L. Jackson must have hung up on them when they called about being in this movie. Instead, we get Colm Meany as the gruff MF’er who has to save the day. Will they drown? Will they suffocate? Or will the sharks make a delicious meal out of everyone?