We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Horror movies are never really about the terror they put on display. Elements of both hooks are present, but those are ultimately reductive takes, ways of distilling a complex film simmering with ideas into something more simple and palatable.

See the entire gallery. Title: It Comes at Night A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar. Krisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family, but past demons threaten to ruin the festivities. A family in s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. A man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, an unsettling affair that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions. A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland.

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. And I was just trying to help him find some peace. It was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. Paul takes an aggressive hand toward keeping his family safe, and Travis meekly watches and obeys, but their lives change when a stranger breaks into their house and changes their family dynamic.

It Comes at Night , director Trey Edward Shults's follow-up to his anxiety-inducing masterpiece Krisha , is a post-apocalyptic nightmare-and-a-half where the horrors of humanity, the strain of chaotic emotions pent up in the name of survival, bleed out through wary eyes and weathered hands. The movie's setup is blockbuster-sized: after deadly virus reverts mankind to the days of the American Frontier, every sole survivor fights to protect their families and themselves. But is the contagion real? And is there any way to stop it? Which he will, after a marathon run of unnerving encounters.