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It Comes at Night

2017 · 91 min

A suffocating, slow-burn descent into paranoia and grief, where every shadow feels like a threat and hope is a luxury.

Directed by
Trey Edward Shults
Genres
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Starring
Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo
Tagline
Fear turns men into monsters.
Overview
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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Directed by
Trey Edward Shults
Genres
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Starring
Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • isolation
  • fate
  • survival
  • grief
Places
  • single country house
  • wilderness
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror7
Humour0
Realism7
Romance1
Tension9
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama, horror, mystery
Directed by
Trey Edward Shults
Written by
Trey Edward Shults
Starring
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Music
Brian McOmber
Cinematography
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Runtime
91 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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