It Comes at Night Movie Review

Movie Analysis & Review

It Comes at Night, released on 09 June 2017, is an Drama, Horror, Mystery film (Released) with a runtime of 91 minutes. Produced by A24, Animal Kingdom in United States of America. Directed by Trey Edward Shults, the movie features performances by Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Griffin Robert Faulkner, David Pendleton, Mikey. The film had a budget of $5.0 million and grossed $19.3 million.
Plot Summary: 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.

Cast and Crew

Cast: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Griffin Robert Faulkner, David Pendleton, Mikey
Crew: Djuna Wahlrab (Compositor), Bridget Fullan (Visual Effects), Kris Fenske (Sound Effects Editor), Allegra Crowther (Scenic Artist), Lori Dinsmore (Best Boy Electric), Trey Edward Shults (Writer), David Kaplan (Producer), Andrea Roa (Producer)
Director: Trey Edward Shults

Overview of It Comes at Night

Release Date: 2017-06-09
Runtime: 91 min
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Status: Released
Budget: $5,000,000
Revenue: $19,280,931
Production: A24, Animal Kingdom
Countries: United States of America
Certification (IN): N/A
OTT Providers: Amazon Prime Video
Keywords: fire, nightmare, nihilism, darkness, homicide, door, paranoia, post-apocalyptic future, forest, fear, dog, madness, pandemic, infected, cremation, hopelessness, malevolence, suspenseful
External: IMDB

Story & Plot

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.

Trailer

Reviews

Gimly: I don't need happy endings in my movies. A downer ending is often what makes a movie great. But I do like satisfactory ones. _It Comes at Night_ did not give that to me. Mystery is often its own reward, and I do believe that's what writer/director Trey Edward Shults was going for here, but it didn't…

Reno: **It's always family first in the apocalyptic world!**

It was not what I was expecting, enjoyed it though. The trailer, the posters hints something else. So I thought it could be a horror, but it was even a terror or a thriller flick. Well, there were a few occasions where it was edgy, though in …

The Movie Mob: **The marketing made me expect something this movie was not and ultimately dissatisfied me with what I got.**

Marketed as a horror creature movie, It Comes at Night disappoints due to the severe lack of creature horror. Instead, the film follows a family surviving an apocalyptic virus that has al…

Nathan: It Comes at Night is very realistic interpretation of a post-apocalyptic world which follows a family trying balance survival with their own morality.

I found almost every aspect of the story to be incredibly grounded; from the way the house is set up to the interactions between our main two fami…

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