10 Recent Movies That Wasted AMAZING Concepts

10. A Haunted Swimming Pool - Night Swim

The first major theatrical release of 2024, Night Swim, certainly rocked an attention-grabbing premise - what if the swimming pool in your new home was haunted?

It's a logline that can't help but make you laugh, so it's a shame that Blumhouse's bafflingly po-faced horror flick takes its fundamentally daft concept so seriously.

With the movie being developed by James Wan's production company Atomic Monster, a campy tone in the vein of Malignant or M3GAN should've been a no-brainer for this one, yet filmmaker Bryce McGuire instead gives it all the solemnity of an A24 joint.

But beyond that, this is duller than any movie about a killer swimming pool should ever be possible of being, and because it's saddled with a restrictive PG-13 rating there aren't even any amusingly OTT death scenes to savour.

Night Swim could've been a bonkers way to kick off the year of horror, but it has so few fresh ideas and such little ambition that it's instead near-instantly forgotten.