It Comes at Night, 2017
It Comes at Night
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.
20171 h 31 min
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Smart, medically-paranoid, taut, complex and intensely mysterious and cruel, Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes at Night does not yield to the conventions of its peers as Joel Edgerton navigates (in a performance that is top notch) through the atmosphere dripping with dread for its entire run time.
Night is also a straight-arrow thriller seen through the tormented eyes of its furtive cast & a back-alley crew and also with its subtle share of jump scares, which do not come across as jump scares but part of the human psyche working over time.
Impressive for a debut feature.
