Overview
- The feature debut opens in select theaters on December 24, with a wider expansion reported for January 2.
- Set at a 2003 all-boys water polo camp, the story follows new arrival Ben as he navigates a peer-enforced ostracization ritual led by Jake, with Joel Edgerton appearing as the coach.
- Reviews highlight horror-inflected craft—underwater imagery, tense sound design, and Johan Lenox’s unsettling score—to render adolescent anxiety without resorting to traditional genre scares.
- Produced with early‑2000s period detail and filmed in Romania to secure a specific indoor pool location, the film emphasizes authenticity through era-specific props and costumes.
- Following the film’s momentum, Polinger is reported to be set to direct a feature adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death starring Mikey Madison.