It Comes at Night

It Comes at Night is a powerful, slow-burning horror, a distressing and nihilistic examination of human nature that lingers in the mind long after the shocking denouement.

The movie has its flaws. But one of Shults's main triumphs is to get us to believe in the danger of the outside world as fiercely as his characters do.

Shults's adoption of a more vicious mode sharpens his already discomfiting take on families in states of extreme duress in his debut feature Krisha.

It's a simple exercise in terror that avoids too much explicit violence, and a quietly impressive little movie.

The "It" of the title refers to the contagious disease that has devastated the outside world (a world that, like much in this beautifully minimalist film, we never see), but it also denotes something even more virulent and destructive: human fear.

Shults wants to ask his viewers, "How far would you go to protect the people you love?" But his work is so clinical and devoid of revelation that it's neither persuasive nor involving.

It Comes at Night is an excellent examination of paranoia and human instinct

"It Comes at Night" is tightly comprised of excruciating moral challenges that escalate with time.

Writer/director Trey Edward Shults builds so much tension with such vague storytelling, and I loved every bit of the ambiguity and metaphorical message it provides.

It’s an unconventional horror picture. It’s a deep emotional treatment of loss. It’s a troubling, unorthodox coming-of-age story. The cool thing is how well Trey Shults packages all these things together without an ounce of conflict.