Director Bryce McGuire says the concept for Night Swim came from his childhood fears – and Jaws.
"Swimming pools are fucking haunted," McGuire tells GamesRadar+. "They can be, at least. I’ll say this in my childhood imagination, the swimming pool contained deep and dark secrets that I was convinced were rising beneath me to grab my skinny flailing legs as a, you know, nine-year-old boy when the lights went out. And so it was just that kind of irrational childhood phobia that I felt after watching Jaws and then going into a pool and just being totally convinced that I was not alone – and realizing other people had their own versions of that."
