Horror Movie to Watch: It Comes at Night(2017)

It Comes at Night sending chills down your spine. But, you can’t see what 'it' is. You can only watch in horror what 'it' does to the people who become the victims.

This is one of those rare movies that doesn't insist on scaring you in every sequence with a ghost or a monster jumping onto its hapless victim out of nowhere when you least expect it. Director Trey Edward Shults believes in making you watch what would happen to you when the world ends.

At the beginning of the movie we see three people wearing gas masks and gloves attending to an elderly man who is heavily sick. His body is full of spores. He is Bud, the dad of Sarah. Sarah, son Travis and her husband Paul (Joel Edgerton) has decided to kill Bud to save the family from being infected from an unknown virus that apparently wiped out a major number of the human population. They kill him and burn the body.

Paul and his family live in a house in the woods. One night a man breaks into the house. Paul catches him and ties him to a tree in the forest and leaves him for the night. Next morning the stranger, Will, reveals that he broke in thinking that it was an abandoned house and he came searching for water for his wife Kim (Riley Keough), and son Andrew.

Paul invites Will and his family to his house and they start living in that house. The already tense mood of the film grows grimmer as Travis suspects Will and Kim's child Andrew is infected as he overhears the couple's talk about leaving the house. He conveys this to his dad and mom.

Paul insists on checking out Andrew to see if the kids sick or not. But Will resists and a fight ensues culminating in one of the most depressing climaxes you would ever see in a movie.

The movie shows us how a virus outbreak made people selfish and inhumane. Everyone fights for their survival. If one of them is sick they have no choice but to kill him or her. The only thing that keeps them going is the wish to survive by not getting infected. This lack of love and trust is the horror element in the movie that scares us.

It Comes at Night (2017)

Director: Trey Edward Shults

Cast: Joel Edgerton , Christopher Abbott , Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Riley Keough

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