The Midnight Swim
Beautiful Horrors (Collection)
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1h 27m
Directed by Sarah Adina Smith • Drama • With Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, Aleksa Palladino • 2014 • 84 minutes
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home to settle her affairs. But when the half sisters jokingly summon a local ghost, their relationship begins to unravel and they find themselves drawn deeper into the mysteries of the lake.
"There is originality to spare here... You feel privy to an intimacy that is rare in American genre cinema." —Screen Anarchy
"Enigmatic and fathomless." —Indiewire
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