Synopsis
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, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
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Cast
- Joel EdgertonPaul
- Christopher AbbottWill
- Carmen EjogoSarah
- Riley KeoughKim
- Kelvin Harrison Jr.Travis
- Griffin Robert FaulknerAndrew
- David PendletonBud
- MikeyStanley
- Chase JolietMan #1
- Mick O'RourkeMan #2
Recommendations
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Time Out
It Comes at Night is a film of tense gradations, a chamber piece set at the twilight of humanity. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
With his fine cast and his gracefully restrained screenplay, Shults makes horror recognizable. - 91
IndieWire
Once again, Shults has delivered a top-notch psychological thriller, but It Comes at Night builds an unnerving atmosphere around unspecified sci-fi circumstances. - 83
Consequence
It Comes at Night isn’t scary so much as it’s horrific, though Shults is extremely gifted at cultivating the kind of slow, droning dread that inflates in your chest like a black balloon. - 80
Screen Daily
Shults has once again made a movie about the terror of family, but It Comes At Night’s confident, ruthless craftsmanship suggests a filmmaker only starting to reach his potential. - 70
Variety
It Comes at Night is a good, tight, impressive little exercise. I was held by it, but the movie, while tense and absorbing, is ultimately a tad forgettable, because it thinks it’s up to more than it is. - 70
New York Daily News
You're also likely to be left wondering to what the "It" in the title actually refers. - 67
The Film Stage
The details in this post-apocalyptic chamber drama — flat-out horror this is not — are spare, an initially refreshing decision that ultimately results in a rather empty, half-formed narrative.
