It Comes at Night

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It Comes at Night

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Released Jun 9, 2017

1h 37m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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After a mysterious apocalypse leaves the world with few survivors, two families are forced to share a home in an uneasy alliance to keep the outside evil at bay -- only to learn that the true horror may come from within.

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Critics Consensus

It Comes at Night makes lethally effective use of its bare-bones trappings while proving once again that what's left unseen can be just as horrifying as anything on the screen.

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Kambole Campbell

One Room With A View

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.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 25, 2018

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K. Austin Collins

The Ringer

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.

Aug 10, 2017

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Jason Anderson

Sight & Sound

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.

Jul 19, 2017

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Isabella Liistro

Loud and Clear Reviews

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

Jan 18, 2025

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

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

Rated: 4/5

Sep 4, 2023

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Jordy Sirkin

Jordy Reviews It

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.

Feb 22, 2023

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French C

I wish I had listened to the other reviews saying not to watch this: 1. It’s NOT scary 2. NOTHING is explained 3. Everything happens during the daytime

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/06/25

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Casey C

there's nothing scary about the movie. i hated it, such a waste of time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/04/25

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João Vinícius A

I wasn't finding a solid story or one that even held up, so I went looking for something in the scary parts, and surprisingly, there's nothing there either.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/13/25

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Nia E

Why is this called it comes at night when everything happened in the daytime. It should be called it comes in the morning, they never showed how or what happened to the dog, how it got back inside, who unlocked the door. Try to do better

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/03/25

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Paul S

The story was really intense and suspenseful, but sometimes it fell flat. Overall the movie was really fun to watch, and I definitely recommend it for sci-fi and thriller fans.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/22/25

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Audience Member

“The Thing” meets “The Last of Us”. Existing on the outskirts of the horror genre, this film provides a darkly pessimistic, yet realistic perspective on the post-apocalyptic reality families would face. It prays on the paranoia that is ingrained in human nature in a way that leaves a lasting impact on the viewer. While it shares a lot of themes with post-apocalyptic horror pieces across mediums in the 2010s, it delivers them with much more streamlined efficiency compared to the more iconic pieces in the genre that have more fleshed out lore. Much of the horror lies in the unknown, one of the film’s many themes that resonant even stronger in a post-COVID world.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/13/25

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Synopsis

After a mysterious apocalypse leaves the world with few survivors, two families are forced to share a home in an uneasy alliance to keep the outside evil at bay -- only to learn that the true horror may come from within.

Director: Trey Edward Shults
Producer: David Kaplan, Andrea Roa
Screenwriter: Trey Edward Shults
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Animal Kingdom
Rating: R (Language|Disturbing Images|Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 9, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.0M
Runtime: 1h 37m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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