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- On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 257 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, " It Comes at Night makes lethally effective use of its bare-bones trappings while proving once again that what's left unseen can be just as horrifying as anything on the screen."
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Jun 9, 2017 · The performances are uniformly stellar throughout “It Comes at Night” (particularly Christopher Abbott, doing his best work since “ James White ”), but the film surprisingly belongs to engaging newcomer Harrison, who becomes the eyes through which we see this story.
Jun 9, 2017 · 88% Tomatometer 257 Reviews 44% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings After a mysterious apocalypse leaves the world with few survivors, two families are forced to share a home in an uneasy alliance to...
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- Trey Edward Shults
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- Joel Edgerton
Jun 8, 2017 · “It Comes at Night,” a rigorous and astute film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, plays the outside-in dialectic beautifully. Initially, the premise looks like one we’ve seen ...
- Trey Edward Shults
- A.O. Scott
- 91 min
- A dystopian nightmare that packs a punch.
- Verdict
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By Alex Welch
Updated: Jun 8, 2017 11:15 pm
Posted: Jun 7, 2017 1:30 pm
When I left my screening of Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes at Night, I could feel my whole body shaking - from the moment I got up from my theater seat, through the entire ride home, until I went to sleep a couple hours later. Described as a post-apocalyptic horror film, the truly astonishing feat of It Comes at Night is that while none of it necessarily scared me like The Witch or The Conjuring did, its images still managed to stay imprinted on the insides of my eyelids, ready for me to revisit whenever I closed my eyes. It Comes at Night left me haunted on a very human level.
The movie fulfills the promise of Shults’ last outing, Krisha, a micro-budget drama set within a claustrophobic environment, that was also about the tension threatening to tear a family apart from each other. But unlike Krisha, Shults translates that similar kind of story into a film that feels more like a post-apocalyptic zombie thriller crossed with a paranoid horror story about monsters lurking in the woods. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel when it comes to either genre, but it combines the two to devastating effect, with a dreamlike narrative and style that lets its tone and paranoia seep into you long before the film’s plot even sets itself into motion.
On that note, It Comes at Night is best experienced by going in knowing and seeing as little as possible, which means avoiding detail-heavy plot synopses and trailers. For context’s sake, I’ll say that the film takes place sometime after a mysterious, infectious disease has apparently begun taking out a majority of humanity. It follows a family living in a boarded-up house in the woods, led by Joel Edgerton’s Paul and Carmen Ejogo’s Sarah, who cross paths with another family, led by Christopher Abbott’s Will and Riley Keough’s Kim. As their lives continue to intertwine, the threat of each family being wiped out by the disease only increases, and as such, the paranoia from both sides spreads faster than the plague they’re trying to avoid catching in the first place.
It Comes at Night is a film about family. Two to be specific, with each trying to stay together, with no desire to tear the other one apart. But the battle to stay alive, more often than not, will have deadly implications for everyone involved. This is no new idea for the dystopian genre to explore, but few manage to touch on it with as much of an ...
IGN praises It Comes at Night as a post-apocalyptic nightmare that packs a punch, with a dreamlike narrative and style that leaves you haunted. The film follows two families struggling to survive a mysterious disease and the monsters in the woods, but offers little in terms of concrete answers or resolution.
- Alex Welch
Jun 9, 2017 · It Comes At Night is set in some undetermined near-future. A plague has apparently wiped out vast swaths of humanity, leaving Paul (Joel Edgerton, sporting his best Kurt Russell beard) to...
- Bryan Bishop
Jul 5, 2017 · It Comes at Night is a drama that doesn’t feel the need to tie up loose ends or deliver neat twists or pat explanations. It mirrors what life would be like for survivors and their attitude...
May 15, 2017 · Film Review: ‘It Comes at Night’ It looks like a zombie movie, but Trey Edward Shults' thriller is a cabin-in-the-woods drama more psychological than sensational. By Owen Gleiberman
