
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. 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... (Full plot summary below)
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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. 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.
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| Time OutJoshua RothkopfIt Comes at Night is a film of tense gradations, a chamber piece set at the twilight of humanity. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThis modest science-fiction thriller brings the hands-on vigor of independent filmmaking to a high-concept premise, but the results are insubstantial and impersonal. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenWith his fine cast and his gracefully restrained screenplay, Shults makes horror recognizable. |
| Film ThreatBill ArceneauxIt Comes at Night is not an easily watched time at the cinema, but through its perilous devastation and mood is a rewarding and valuable time, spent with your own anxiety and the lump in your throat that you try to choke down. |
| Seven DaysRick KisonakIt Comes at Night may well be the most minimalist horror movie ever made... an exceptionally tight, sly and, yes, heavy exercise in psychological suspense. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsWhaddya expect to happen in a scary, spine-tingler with such a big hint in the title? |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairA progressively engrossing horror effort... |
| The ListNikki BaughanA deeply personal exploration of the extremes of human behaviour, with a lean, real-world sensibility that makes it easy to empathise with the notion of survival at any cost. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonA quietly chilling nightmare of human frailty and strength, tense with a nameless disquietude. A supremely accomplished little film. |
| IndiewireEric KohnOnce again, Shults has delivered a top-notch psychological thriller, but It Comes at Night builds an unnerving atmosphere around unspecified sci-fi circumstances. |