jtncsmistad It's official. Joel Edgerton is one my favorite actors. The talented Aussie is perfection in the relentlessly unsettling "It Comes at Night".Edgerton plays Paul, whose soul purpose lies in protecting his wife and teenage son from a never-named source of sinister sickness which has evidently ravaged the planet. When another family moves in to their backwoods home seeking water and refuge it all goes quite swimmingly for a time. However, peace and harmony are eventually obliterated by fear and volatility. Relationships are questioned, frayed and then...well, you'll have to see for yourself. Trey Edward Shults wrote and directed here. His feature debut, the 2015 domestic drama "Krisha", left this reviewer less than impressed. Still, there were within certainly elements of promise for Shults's filmmaking future. Promise fulfilled. "It Comes at Night" deserves inclusion among the best films of the past year. Or any other.

micheline-470-569696 Unlike other people I love onions. On pizza, in salads, with salmon and horseradish and many more. And I love surprises. Especially in movies. However, if it looks like a candy apple and is classified as a candy apple... I want it to taste like candy apple. I don't like onions as a surprise. You do neither? Don't expect this movie to be candy apple that its trailer promised.You know, allt hrough the movie I thought I had figured out the "secret hints" at a plot twist I was confident that one of my speculations would turn out to be correct... like......everything was just Travis' (the son's) hallucinations while being terribly sick... or ...Will and Kim (the visitors) had sinister intentions/ a dark secret/ a troubled past which would be unravelled by someone of the family (Paul/ Sarah/ Travis)... or ...Will and Kim were just stool pigeons and there were going to be more people out there in the woods coming after the family's belongings and supplies... or ...Andrew had been kidnapped by Will and Kim (hence his sleepwalk and Kim's strange reaction to it) and they tried to hide that he wasn't their son... or ...It's all about Paul's schizophrenic paranoia and its impact on all his family, the whole virus-apocalypse thing never actually happened - or at least not to that zombie-like extent... or ...Travis or his mom would wreak havoc after Paul killed Andrew... or ...the "thing that comes at night" had nothing to do at all with a virus but with human's evolution... ...but... in the end...NOTHING.I loved the cast and their performances. The plot was something we've heard of sooo many times already... but could have become a new and different approach to the virus topic thing - which honestly would have been awesome!The movie builds up suspense to an extent I haven't been experiencing for a long time. And I love that it is playing with the viewers munds and imagination rather than overuse cheap shock moments with exaggerated sound effects every few minutes. I also don't mind endings that aren't actually endings, I like finals that leave you with questions and lead to discussions.However, in this movie all the suspense, the presumptions, alleged innuendos and questions blow up during the whole movie only to eventually erupt into a dissapointing unsatisfying ending.To those who claim it's an allegory on humanity or today's society or whatever: I can understand that point of view too. I also like movies with some deeper meaning. However, does this mean a lack of logic and omitting any answers and explanations are requirements for a movie with superior importance nowadays? And does this mean that all the people who gave bad reviews lack profoundness? Just because they expected something else from a movie that's considered to be a horror movie? I don't think so. I'm a fan of a clever, thought-provoking plot that goes beyond the usual shocker flick. This wasn't one of them. This was a wannabe philosophical mystery something that makes me ask why they would call it "horror" movie in the first place? If you don't know how to connect pensiveness and fright, at least don't classify it into such a strong genre like horror (with a heavy with meaning title) and make the viewers expect something that never really happens.

bward-20 This movie had all the elements to be good....but wasn't. I kept waiting for some small explanations and back story but no. I wouldn't watch this even if we're free on Netflix.

yonthlim I can relate to how people disappointed by this movie, as we watch certain genre of movie we tend to build up an expectation toward its genre.When we watch horror movies we expected to be scared and had a good time. When people watch It Comes at Night. People will expect malicious ghost/monster-like manifestation of the word "It". But the thing is, The word "It" in the title and in the movie itself is not about a ghost, monster, or psychotic killer. It's the genre itself.I would like to categorize this movie as a fun suspense, and the suspense did comes along the movie especially at night. It portrays trust-issue in the condition where trust outside of your own family is scarce. The monster here is not the ink-blood-vomiting zombie, but it's how we deal with our own issues. If we can't control it, we could lose something important to us.People who disappointed by this movie have overlooked the real monster in this movie. It's in the protagonist and their allies, it's a nature of us as human being trying to survive, yet ironically lead us to extinction.