It Comes at Night
It Comes at Night
R | 09 June 2017 (USA)
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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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slesch-71189

I'm sorry i have lose 1.5h time of my life,like dunkirk like how it ends. I wait and wait and wait, and i don't know where m...... f..... is coming. Excuise me it was so boring.And last but not least the best to last coming .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. The End. Hahahahahaha so sorry

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a_wemme

Horror movies more often than not are easily defined by having a monster that sets out to kill the protagonist of the movie. Whether it's ghosts, zombies, demons, murderers or simply a natural disaster. Often we know very little of these monsters - we don't know what they are, how they can exist, how they came here or why they want to kill us. We can't argue with them and seldomly can we escape. The reason we fear these things so much is because humans fear death itself. Death is intangible, unidentifiable and uncanny. We can't stop it, we can't argue with it and it lurks around every corner, threatening to consume us relentlessly.To me, that is what makes this movie so utterly horrifying. There IS a monster in this movie - we just can't see it. We know absolutely nothing about what is trying to kill this family. We don't know how to stop it, we don't know what it is, what it wants - we can't even see it! The disease seeps into the very foundation of their existance and neither we nor they even so much as notice, much like any other disease. It Comes At Night lures you in with a genre-typical theme, but then makes a diversion by making a controversial, trope-breaking and honestly refreshing take on horror. In modern horror cinema, we have been conditioned into expecting shocks, sudden jumps and overstimulation of the senses. They are like roller coasters, filling us with adrenaline and huge rushes of emotion. But in reality, it's not really the pit fall of the roller coaster that truly comes to terrify us in the night. It's the knowledge of our own mortality and fragility. The bleak, empty dread of this movie stuck with me for days. Few movies that I have seen have ever captured that sick, hollow feeling of realising that you will die one day. In this movie, death breathes these characters in the neck and turns them into paranoid, vile creatures.This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a wimper. With that said, this is not a particularly exciting movie and I do understand the criticism of those claiming to be disappointed and feeling tricked. I recommend going in with a clean slate, not watching any trailers and don't watch it on a movie night with friends.

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perica-43151

The movie is a good work, that is very atmospheric. It does not deal with cheap thrills, really it is a reflection of horror of losing members of your own family, of illness, and the director dealt with his own loss of father to cancer by filming this. So, while not really a master piece, and a bit abstract for average horror lovers, it is a pretty solid work of art, worthy of your time if you are into exploring these kind of issues in a serious way. It is abstract enough, you can see how people in the middle ages felt when dealing with the plague, or indeed in the case of any future apocalyptic pandemic. Film about atmosphere, not really about cheap thrills.

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jimbo-53-186511

In the midst of an outbreak of a deadly plague, a man and his family keep themselves locked away in their house and follow a very strict protocol (involving keeping doors locked at all times and only venturing outside when absolutely necessary). When a stranger arrives at their house offering to trade food for water the family decide that it may be better for both families to pool their resources and agree to let the other family stay, but can they be trusted?Director Trey Edward Shults does a commendable job in terms of creating atmosphere and tension (particularly at the start of the film). The isolated setting is used to good effect and the mistrust that exists between the families is a fairly solid base in terms of creating paranoia. Unfortunately, this is really where the praise for this film ends...I think it's fair to say that Shults does a much better job as a director than he does as a writer; not a lot is explained here and much of the dialogue is either uninteresting or does very little to drive anything forward. There is no explanation of how this plague began or how people get infected? What you're left with then is a bit of atmosphere, a bit of tension and paranoia, but nothing to glue everything together and with very little in the way of a story it does make it difficult to become involved with this film - it also doesn't help that the film feels a tad repetitive at times as well.Shults is a fairly new director and I can see some potential here; as I say some of the technical aspects are quite good and he also gets some good performances out of his actors. However, if he chooses to write and direct on his next project he could do with putting a bit more thought into his next script.

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