Night Swim Pitch Meeting
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2024
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Blumhouse has made a name for themselves in the horror genre with massive box office hits on relatively low budgets. But as their output increases, sometimes we get some movies that just aren’t hit material. Take a movie that’s about a haunted pool, for example.
Night Swim definitely raises some questions. Like should this have just remained a short film? What are the rules of this pool ghost exactly? Why did it unalive their cat? Since when is a baseball bat a good method of ghost removal?
To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to Night Swim!
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A 2 minute movie stretched to 2 hours and condensed back to 5 minutes and 10 seconds is tight.
Yea yea yea
"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be."
Bravo!
So anyways...
2 hours?
"What if a Pool was *Haunted?"*
- "I'd... simply not swim in it"
_(Credits roll)_
“How to beat” Night Swim
Padding time is tight!
I mean, they had a haunted elevator once. And somehow after it had killed multiple people, they hadn't simply put an Out Of Order sign on it
I'd... simply not swim in it, then fill it with concrete.
Dont say that it would ruin the primse
"Don't say that, that undoes the whole premise!" said with such annoyance has gotta be a new favorite pitch meeting line.
Wonder if it's gonna be a new running gag
The man is a machine.
ya!! it's about time for Barely a inconvenience to take a rest..
Instant fan of the pause, blink, blink, looks at script, looks up, "So anyway..."
Thank you Ryan, for helping this lifelong fan of B-movies know if a movie is good-bad, or bad-bad.
Yes, Ryan's got the gift for that.
Kinda miss "hey shut up" in that part tbh
@@8tonystark8 Yeah he milked this version of the gag a little too much. I do like the script lookdowns, but not this much.
You know this movie is so special when Pitch Guy didn't even pull at least one "I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back" when the Producer brings in fair points about the plot holes.
He knows… he knows
or a single "- I don't know - Fair enough" just purely bamboozled
or a "heyshutup"
This time, the shame was just too great.
and there also wasn't "because - that works"
The "water can't get through dirt" "Mud" bit cracked me up
The immediate "F***..." really sold it.
also "the pool water comes from an underground spring" i'm pretty sure that's not how pools OR springs work
@@dietotaku Hot-springs pools are actually not uncommon.
So instead of a cursed pool they'll have a cursed wet swamp in their garden.
Honestly, I think it's a downgrade.
"Ghosts can't go through doors! They're not fire!"
"The dad is fully possesed by the pool" is definitely a sentence I never thought I'd hear
There doesn't seem to be an explanation for why it possessed anyone either. It could literally just take the life of whoever else swam in the pool, which was like a lot of people.
I didn't know a possessed pool had guidelines and terms and conditions
The amount of times Ryan Pitchman had to look down in complete horror at the massive plot holes is just fantastic. 😂
Just fill that plot hole with water and now you have a plot pool!
Didn't realize that Night Swim was popular enough even warrant a pitch meeting.
I figure it was a Sharknado kind of deal. Popular bc it’s dumb & people watch it as a joke lol.
I think he had to do it for content, because there's not much to talk about
Running out of films to do videos for
yet Wonka isn't popular?
This one must've really angered Ryan.
"Can you make the first flop of 2024?"
"That's super easy. Barely an inconvenience!"
The worst movies always come out in January
@@brickhouse2265 Well there have been exceptions like Megan and Scream 5 in the past few years.
You could say it was a BELLY flop
It's not even a flop though. Sure the box office was low, but movies such as these are produced for pennies. Wikipedia states it had a BO of 31.5 million against a budget of 15 million.
@@everett6072 So yes, it won't affect Blumhouse that much. But they should still choose which films to make a bit more carefully.
Watching pitch meeting for movies I didn't know existed is tight.
lmao! samesees
"Mud"
"F**k"
Genuinely, made me snort with laughter. 😂
I nearly spit out my water, looking for this comment just to see who else cracked up
Yeah this part actually had me laughing my ass off for a minute
I laughed loudly and immediately at that part.
Yep. I had to pause, regain composure and rewind. lol
i have been crying laughing at this the whole time my god it's so good
the sad thing is, the premise of "a pool with wish-granting waters that requires a sacrifice to work" could actually be a fun horror movie premise. They could have the family learn the rules very early on, and then the movie is about the temptation for the magic, and how far the family is willing to go to keep getting wishes.
So just an even worse Wish Upon?
That would make the movie a watered-down version of TWO Are You Afraid of the Dark episodes.
@@MmeCShadow I really hope that pun was intentional
There already was another movie with what you're describing which I'm sure was made by blumhouse as well. The dad also died there, I think.
So we can boil this down to blumhouse have serious daddy issues. Perhaps a good horror movie script should have been on Blumhouse growing up.
This pitch meeting had more viewers in 26 minutes than the movie had throughout the entire screening period.
I saw it in theaters on opening day. I was the only one in the theater.
That's a pretty cool observation. Insane how many viewers these videos have.
and better reviews.
@@TonyGModestonothing better to do?
@@crona3316 nothing better to do than asking random people on the internet "nothing better to do?"? 🙃
''The sacrifice for healing himself is him dying'' loool 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah!.. yeah...
Sounds like the writer took that from a anime.
I really love the new bit of the screenwriter just completely giving up and not even trying when questioned on stuff. It feels really realistic to me, like I completely accept that Hollywood screenwriters respond to criticism by simply ignoring it, either because they're ashamed, or too stupid, or proud, or just don't care.
That was one of your bests. Laughed so hard every time the screen writer had no answers.
Yeah, but I think it was a miss opportunity for A LOT of: hey, shut ups.
@@truvakI thought the complete lack of confidence in the absurd premise sold it. Just the helpless glance at the script as is to say "Ok.. so I didn't really think this through"
True; I've never seen so much silence in a Pitch Meeting. 😆
@@truvakthe silence is the absolutely perfect reaction 😂😂😂
@@NoOne-yc4wl👈 NoOne gets it.
This channel provides such an essential service for people who want to know how bad an obviously bad movie is but don't want to sit through the movie. Thank you for all that you do here.
I was just thinking about how if this channel didn’t exist, I would probably just be completely oblivious to most movies, having no idea if they were any good or anything. Thank you Ryan.
@@thecoach3577 Same here. I don't watch movies or shows for the most part so I have no idea what's going on
Ryan does gods work
He makes every movie look bad. That's his job.
I do this so often
This is literally that one Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode with the ghost/demon in the basement that granted wishes when it was fed, except this is in a pool. Wow.
There was also the episode that had a pool ghost and that was waaaaaay scarier than this movie was lol. It was the same premise, just actually entertaining.
@@ericsiemens9891 well yeah, an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? is only about twenty-two minutes, which is realistically how long it would take to fully interrogate this concept. The movie's main mistake was being a movie.
That show was fantastic. Explore an idea and move on, confident that humans have the capacity to create more, rather than trap audiences in an endless loop of empty remakes and pointless sequels.
The timing on “mud” was amazing
This episode was solid gold. The pauses when he didn't have any answers, the terms and conditions, and then the police wondering why a pool would be filled in. Great stuff!
Can you explain why police would wonder that? What's so weird about a filled in pool?
@@ROaxel It happens right after the father goes missing. So the cops would be investigating and discover a recently filled in pool. This would then lead them to believe the two incidents are connected in some way. And as many missing persons cases end up actually being murders, a cop could theorize that they killed the father and buried him in the pool to cover up the crime.
@@ROaxel someone doesn't watch true crime or the ID channel....
@@blueravenchick No, I'm afraid I don't
@@makingmercien9642 Oh I see. Thanks for explaining. I didn't even think about that possibility
“That’s not in the terms & conditions of the spooky haunted pool” 😂
My favourite line from this pitch - I cracked up and how
Magic things having EULA's is tight!
I would have. But the three moments of silence kinda killed the pace of this thing & that happened right after the third one. Those don't work.
CreateWithShank is a foul hi ndu in ind ia
The “Sure Ok!” as a response to a question being taken as a statement is highly underrated and super refined stuff.
The way script writer guy stared at his notes after every plot hole... 😂
2:47 and 3:25 and 4:32
The silence as a replacement for "hey shut up" or "i want u to get all the way off my back"
Is just genius 😂
I take that as "Pitch-Guy" knowing he's pitching a bag of poo, but sticking with it to the end. Which to me makes this funnier for sure.
I immediately thought it was better than the shut ups, but I want to believe there's still a time and place for the _...all the way off my back_
I feel like "hey shut up" and "all the way off my back" are for the blockbuster SG who's done this a thousand times. This is indy horror SG who has probably never pitched to such a critical thinking PG before.
@@la_scrittice_vita actually thought about saying this, at least for the former example, i'm glad somebody did
It's the "continuing"...
"The sacrifice to the pool for him healing is him dying?"
"Yeah! ........(checks notes) Yeah!"
Don't you mean "yeah, yeah, yeah!" ?
So many gems in this one! I love when screenwriter guy is stumped by producer guy’s logic and just stares at the script for a beat 😂
„Padding things to make them appear more substantial is tight!” 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Ryan mimicking the dad spitting out the possession was one of the best things I've ever seen
Screenwriter guy has confidence you can't teach. Like when he emphatically said 'Cus water can't get through dirt'. Not to mention every single time he checked his notes to find no answers but decided to carry on like there were no problems. Laughed up a whole lung to this. Definitely one of your best.
You didn’t have water in your lung, did you?? Because that’s a symptom of being almost murdered in a haunted pool.
You should go see a lunguist.
PLEASE do the pitch meeting for “Anyone but you”. There are sooo many moments when “so the movie can happen” apply!! 😂
Sounds like a classic "F You It's January!" movie
My brain refuses to believe that this is a real movie. I can't believe that Ryan made up an entire movie and then made a pitch meeting about it.
0:56 I can't believe he got Julie Nolke to star in it!
I get the feeling that Ryan heard that this movie was about a haunted pool and immediately thought, “Yep. I’ve got my next Pitch Meeting video.”
I love the embarassed staring at the notes. Nice refresher for your "Get of my back with that thing!" ^^
Those pauses were absolutely hilarious
"it's not in the terms and conditions" and the constant pauses to review the screenplay are the best parts of this pitch 😂😂😂
Having never heard of the movie, I can say with 100% confidence that this pitch meeting was a better use of my time.
They showed the best parts in the trailer like usual....
Having watched the movie I totally agree
I mostly watch the pitch meetings instead of the films as they are a better use of time indeed!
Agreed
Watching paint dry would be a better use of your time as opposed to watching that movie.
When I first caught a glimpse of “Night Swim” I thought it was the spooky pool from the 80’s movie “House”.
Of all the Pitch Meetings of movies I've never heard of that you two guys have done, this was the funniest. Job well done.
The pause at 2:54 might be the best pause for comedic effect I've seen in any pitch meeting, with the face the icing on the cake. You rock Ryan
especially when he amplified the sound effects. 😂
Completely subverted my expectation of “I don’t knowwww”
@@cerisejaxel9636 I missed that!
Yeah, way to rock an awkward silence. Harold Pinter would be
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pleased.
Omg, the staring at the script when questioned on a plot point and then moving on is brilliant 😂
''Don't say that, that undoes the whole premise!'' needs to be a recurring catchphrase!
Dude the long pauses killed me this episode. You are awesome!
I remember the _Are You Afraid of the Dark?_ episode involving a pool being far scarier than Night Swim 😂
The Tale of the Dead Man's Float
Yo, I was scared of pools for YEARS because of that episode.
Well to be fair, AYAotD was fucking terrifying.
Yeah that ghost was terrifying.
Those were actually pretty good, though.
I love those silent pauses where the pitcher just stares at the script lol
The Mrs. and I just watched this last night; she and I basically said all of the same things Producer Guy said!
So happy to know we can now professionally analyze a movie based on our previous Ryan George watchings.
I've only seen this today, Monday, and it was the best way to kick off my week! 🤣😂
Pure comedy gold. Thank you, Ryan!
Must be a slow time for movies if you're pitching this movie.
Those pauses from the painfully obvious plot holes and moving on were brilliant. I love it when Ryan does that. And that f bomb at the end was just so perfectly timed.
I wish he'd do one for The Creator... I don't remember being as pissed off at plot holes for a very long time
@@1chrisanderson Maybe he's working on it or taking a break from that sort of thing after Rebel Moon.
He said at the end that, January is a slow month for movie releases.
@@nunya___When did January become Hollywood's rolling the bin to the sidewalk month? It's been going on for yearsssssss.
Yeah, perfect opportunity to do some classics - namely because people actually watched them! :-)
Screenwriter guy looking defeatedly at the script was hilarious 😂
This is like my favorite kind of pitch meeting. Never heard of the movie, would not have seen it otherwise, Pitch Meeting is hilarious and way more fun than actually seeing it
This is for sure one of my favourite pitch meetings. Ryan George is tight!
The movie having gaping plot holes made this pitch meeting so much funnier than usual, I wss dying 😂 thank you so much Ryan
Gaping plot holes are TIGHT!
@@glorygloryholeallelujah No... That's not... No... 😭 WHYYYY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY IT
The plot holes were so big he couldn't even do the hey shut up 😂
There are so many film reviewers on RUclips, this channel manages to to rinse a film in it's own unique way, never fails to make me smile, the Tenet pitch being one of the best.
My favorite is still WW84 Pitch Meeting... ruclips.net/video/4_Tm0SxIp6w/видео.htmlsi=xX1rwXz4fiPFzDhc
Time Stamp (in the WW84): 2:09
Writer Guy: "Who's to say?"
Producer guy: "You are!"
Writer Guy: "Yeesss."
I literally had to stop the video I was laughing so hard the first time I saw that.
I loved the Tenet pitch meeting, too. Especially since Producer Guy's nose bleed was a direct callback to the Stranger Things Pitch Meeting! 🤣😅🤗
That looking silently into the script for a moment thing is my new favourite thing.
This was the best pitch meeting in ages. Love it. I think Ryan should do a revisit of the 'Old' Pitch Meeting.
I emailed this to my grandmother..and she loved it!
Although she did die twenty or so years ago so that's a little concerning.
Anyway...
Another excellent video as ever! I can always rely on Ryan George to make me giggle uncontrollably. 👍
How did she die? For added context.
Dead relatives are tight!
@@NeoTechniShe was due to appear on a show called "It's The '90's" but there was an accident with..er..a time machine, I think?
We were still able to bury most of her, so it's okay.
Damn, I loved that show. I just wish I could remember what the presenter looked like. For some reason I just can't think of his face.. 🤔
'How did she die?'
Went for a Night Swim.
Your grandma had an email address 20 years ago?
I kinda really liked how the scriptwriter guy just glared at his script whenever the producer guy brings up a valid point and then goes like "anyway!"
I think it's something you could do from time to time again it's a nice change especially when there are a lot of inconsistencies but it's not something you should always do
Good idea
Yeah feels like something is missing instead of a new idea. "hey shut up" may be my favorite response in that regard
😂😂 Excellent video Ryan! Thank you for being you and sharing with us. God Bless!
"a pool ghost, a ghost of the pool if you will" :D said with such wonderfully unbridled enthusiasm, *beautiful*
Considering how many utterly horrifying possibilities come from a haunted pool, it's so weird that they managed to drop the ball. But we got a great Pitch Meeting out of it!
I mean. Pools are incredibly easy to avoid
@@2buxaslice So are haunted houses, haunted dolls, and haunted mostly anything else that has been filmed. But here we are.
@@Riwillion People live in houses, haunted dolls can move or hide, etc. Pools are just a luxury item that doesn't move and only used very occasionally. In terms of potential, while I have no doubt a talented writer might come up with something good, we're still definitely near the bottom of the barrel.
@@misterwhyteHear me out:
Rich family buys a pool as a status thing, then stops using it.
The pool gets mad and starts forcing them to use it by possessing them or something.
The movie is them trying to deal with the pool, and they can't get anyone else to help them because why would anyone believe them?
@@misterwhyte
You mean the bottom of the pool.
“That’s not in the terms and conditions of spooky haunted pools” 😂
This is somehow my best Pitch Meeting episode yet 🎉🎉 Ryan keep Ryaning 🙌
Every time screenwriter guy pauses it's hilarious.
"that's not in the terms and conditions...of the spooky pool" 😂😂😂😂😂
Watching pitch meetings instead of the movies is TIGHT!
*Bad movies
It sure is!
Repeating the same recycled comment across all these pitch meetings is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
You made the right call with this one ha
Yeah yeah yeah
Pure Gold!!
This is why the channel was made.
😂😂😂😂😂
I haven't laughed so much like this in a long long time :D
Greetings from Ukraine!
"Padding things to make them seem more substantial is tight." Agreed. 😂
Yeap, I was not surprised to find out the producer guy is stuffing his crotch.
Pitch Meeting systematically calling out the flaws in modern movie making in hilarious fashion is tight!
The Pause of Shame tho…savage!
I am so thankful for this movie to the actual screenwriter guy or gal and actual producer guy or gal.
Thanks to them we can have this absolutely golden Pitch Meeting.
Uh oh. The "look at script and ignore the previous question" ability has been unlocked!
This will be useful for SO MANY movies
"Padding things to make them seem more substantial is tight!". Now you know Ryan knew EXACTLY the double entendre there, which is why he's frickin' brilliant.
Checking the script and simply moving on has to be my new favorite gag. Brilliant.
4:09 to 4:15 how do you keep coming up with new mannerisms?! so funny when you say 'yeah...yeah!'
Ryan, you're brilliant man..these never miss....I have but one regret, and it is that I only get to experience these for the first time once.
The rules of Matco Polo are the strongest magic in the world
You know what bit I loved? When Producer Guy would ask Screenwriter Guy a logical question, and SG would start fumbling through his huge stack of papers looking for the answer that doesn't exist. That always cracked me up, but i haven't seen it in forever.
Ghost Rider pitch meeting, right?
@@EventualWarlord that's definitely one of them, yes! Im so glad I explained it enough that one person understood me. He did it in several PMs around that time, and it cracked me up every single time.
I've actually watched this pitch meeting 3x now lol low key probably my favorite one!! Haven't seen night swim either but the ad kept popping up on our Roku TV and my daughters are petrified lol. This might male them laugh though good job Ryan's
Funny things I watch in this week. Thanks Script guy and Producer guy. 😂😂😂
I've probably never laughed so hard at a Pitch Meeting! Your acting and mannerisms are getting so good man!
You would think I would get bored of pitch meeting after so many instead I get excited when everytime a new one comes out and Ryan has not disappointed at all. If anything I keep going back and watching older ones all the time!
Keep at it !
loved it; the pitch meeting, that is. writer guy actually being speechless about the plot holes generated, too much to even utter a "hey, I need you to get off my back over this!". XD
but yeah, I may not be a good writer, but even I could have come up with a script with less plotholes.
can it be that most horror/scary movies lack an epilogue? like Terminator 1 had, for example.
"And why exactly did you burn your own house down again, ma'am?"
"I didn't, it was the ghost who did thisanthat, I already explained..."
"Ma'am, even if I believed you, the judge will demand something solid. I'm afraif you have to come with us..."
*evil giggle from the bushes*
or something like that.
Great video! Love these!
The pauses were AMAZING 😂😂
Even though I've never heard of this movie, I still immediately watched it
Ryan, I want you to know: Your videos are TIGHT!!!
This video has been posted for 8 minutes and your content for 6, how did you watch the film in 2 minutes? Even the short was 3 minutes
Even though I never heard of this movie or the Marco Polo game, I still immediately watched it.
@@Scribz1212I was talking about immediately watching the pitch meeting😅
@@SiesBrus that isn't how pronouns work lol
@@Scribz1212oh yeah you're right I'm sorry. I'm not a native so mistakes like that happen😬
Those long pauses are comedic gold.
This is one of the funniest pitches he's releases in a bit. I love all of then, but this one had me laughing right from "well don't say that, it ruins the entire premise!"
Great video, Ryan! This was tight 👌🏻
"Can't he just go back to being sick?" The best!
It's incredible how you can still make these funny even after all these years, and even get more and more laughs. Superb job, was barely an inconvenience I assume tho
Thanks for the great video!
3:25
🤣🤣🤣
This movie went swimmingly
I heard it made a big splash!
@@StreetPreacherr It dropped some kids off at the pool.
I just farted.
I heard it (belly) flopped
When Ryan spits out the possession… cracked me up so hard. Oh my God 🤣🤣🤣
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! Please keep it up.
Please tell screen rant to do something on Narnia so you can finally do at least one pitch meeting for it 🙏🥺 it’s on Hulu now so people are definitely watching it
So much more skill and talent went into this pitch meeting than went into the movie...
Nah, i think the camera work for that was better than this
This Pitch and producer guys logic is exactly why i can't even watch cheap scary movies. They are just dum-de-dum-dum-duuuuummmm :)
I'm always happy when the Pitch Meeting is for a movie I would never bother with otherwise
So glad he covered this cuz i was curious what Night Swim could possibly be about but not willing to actually watch it
Watching pitch meetings for movies I’ll never see is TIGHT!!!