The plot is centers around two families. Paul ties him to a tree, and places a bag over his head overnight to confirm he is not suffering from the disease. Search for "It Comes at Night" on Amazon.com, Title: 'It Comes at Night' uses a classic work of art for both thematic and visual inspiration. [18] It made $700,000 from Thursday night previews and $2.4 million on its first day. 49 people found this helpful. It Comes At Night could become A24’s biggest hit, although that’s not a particularly high bar. It comes at night (2017) is a very interesting horror-thriller film. Check out some the surprise hits of 2021 that caught the attention of IMDb fans and are all available to stream now. When he notices the man's odd behavior, he starts to question his intentions. The film focuses on a family hiding in a forest as the Earth is taken over by a highly contagious disease. Will offers to trade some of their food for water. A24. Shults has described it "as this kind of labyrinth" and a metaphor for "the mesh of Travis' head". Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within him as he learns that the protection of his family comes at the cost of his soul. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? It’s got a message, but sends it in ways that prevent it from ever chilling, thrilling or even roping in the viewer. He wakes Paul and Will. The cast includes Joel Edgerton, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbott, and Riley Keough. Im not sure why its titled this. Former teacher Paul (Joel Edgerton) has set up a fortress in the woods, complete with a stock of food and water, where he lives with his wife, Sarah (Carmen Ejogo), and teen son, Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr.).Unfortunately, they've just had to shoot and burn Travis's grandfather, who was sick with the disease. Paul's response suggests an increasing distrust of Will. With Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough. It isn’t expected to open truly wide, but it only needs about $2 million to reach the top ten. There is a known disease going around everywhere and that is why everyone is so desperate and the main family wears gasmasks whenever they go out. A man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, an unsettling affair that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions. Now imagine something worse. That night, Will seemingly contradicts a story he told Paul earlier about his and Kim's activities prior to finding the abandoned house. The main being a family of three and then there is a second family that is invited to stay with the main family because they're in dire need of supplies. 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The film is not by any stretch of the imagination your run of the mill horror flick, truth be told I wouldn't even consider it a horror film at all, it's a psychological thriller. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. View production, box office, & company info. Paul returns with Will, his wife Kim, and son Andrew. We rarely know anything he doesn’t, and it’s his 17-year-old emotions that we come to equate with our own. Award-winning filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his breakout debut Krisha with the psychological horror thriller It Comes At Night, centering on a teenaged boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he grapples with mounting terrors—external and otherwise—in the aftermath of an unnamed cataclysm. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge. Deadline Hollywood noted the film's poor audience word-of-mouth led to a drop of potential Saturday and Sunday sales. [21], Kelvin Harrison Jr. was nominated for Breakthrough Actor at the Gotham Independent Film Awards 2017. That evening, Travis discovers Andrew sleeping on the floor of Bud's old room suffering from a nightmare. 'It Comes at Night' turns two families surviving the postapocalypse into a paranoid nightmare – Peter Travers on why this indie-horror is a minor gem. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Will demands Paul give him "...a fair share..." of food and water so they can leave. Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge. Very big difference between a horror and a psychological thriller. Written by SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/A24subscribeA new horror film from acclaimed filmmaker Trey Edward Shults. Paul suspects Andrew is infected, and decides they should quarantine in their separate rooms for a couple days so they can calm down and ensure no one is sick. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place. A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar. It feels like your watching a long episode of the walking dead except there's no zombies, monsters, or anything supernatural. A cryptic, allegorical tale with a lot of intellectual ambition, “At Night Comes Wolves” takes on toxic masculinity and the cultish way religion tends to amplify it in an emotionally remote and dramatically flat thriller. It Comes at Night is a powerful, slow-burning horror, a distressing and nihilistic examination of human nature that lingers in the mind long after the shocking denouement. It Comes at Night is one of those movies with more scares from the characters’ bad dreams than from anything that manifests itself indoors. There really is no ending either. Sarah suggests bringing the strangers to their home, reasoning the more people, the easier it would be to defend themselves. To the extent that “It Comes at Night” is a mystery, it stays a mystery. A young videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge. The movie makes you think, it is a complex and interesting movie to watch and then discuss afterwards. They kill and burn the dog. 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They investigate, finding a bleeding and gravely-sick Stanley on the floor. Now let me just start out by saying that if you are wanting to see this movie based on the way in which the trailers made it look, then you may very well be disappointed. Kim argues the possibility as tensions rise. He added that "it is one of the most terrifying films in years". It stars Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Riley Keough. It Comes at Night opens this week and it brings a blast of unsettling, arthouse horror into the stifling summer movie season. 8/10 for It comes at night. Imagine the end of the world. In IT COMES AT NIGHT, a mysterious, deadly disease has ravaged the land. The actors all give incredible performances, Harrison Jr., Abbott, and Keough shine the brightest in my opinion, Edgerton is good too, but Harrison, who plays his son exceeds him as far as a compelling performance goes. After establishing the rules Paul and Sarah use to stay safe, including a) keeping the only entrance locked with a key Paul or Sarah wear around their neck, and b) keeping nighttime excursions to a minimum, the two families establish a sense of normality, and grow closer. A highly contagious disease ravages the planet. Sort By: Date Score. Two sides of the Hollywood distribution coin: It Comes at Night is anticipated (and marketed) as an antidote to the plodding monotony of typical Summer fare, only to reveal itself (in 2,533 theatres nationwide, no less) as a lame, counter-intuitive example of the inherent flaws of the modern low-budget Art-House picture. Paul kills them, while accusing Will of setting him up. Use the HTML below. After Travis reveals the door was open before he came downstairs, Sarah suggests sleepwalking Andrew opened the door. It Comes At Night isn’t openly about cancer, the way Krisha was openly about addiction. Was this review helpful to you? The directing is on point throughout the entire film, I commend Trey Edward Shults for his clear talent that is displayed here. Im not sure why its titled this. Use the arrow keys and the spacebar to control the game interface. [7] He cites Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1562 oil painting The Triumph of Death as inspiration and it features prominently in the movie and its first trailer. The next night, they capture an intruder breaking into the house. It Comes at Night subtitles. [4], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 87% based on 252 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. A distraught Kim tells Will they need to leave. Not sure how this made it into theaters. Paul and Sarah, now visibly infected, sit at the dinner table in silence. Shults began writing the film after the death of his father as a way of dealing with the pain. Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. After Paul asks to be let in to see if Andrew is sick, Will draws a gun and takes Paul captive. [4], Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave the film a thumbs up, saying "It is a movie in which the villains are loss, grief, pain, fear and distrust — very human emotions — and it has no traditional brain-eaters." IT comes at night. 39. [11][12] In August 2016, it was announced that Christopher Abbott, Riley Keough and Carmen Ejogo had also joined the cast. Now imagine something worse. After Sarah's father, Bud, contracts the disease, they kill him, and burn his body in a shallow grave. "[19] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score 78 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Blast of unsettling, arthouse horror into the stifling summer movie season online ad for a job... 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