It Comes At Night (2017)

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68%

2017, Horror, 1h 37m

RT Critics’ Score: 87% (BIAS DETECTED)
RT Audience Score: 44%
Awards & Nominations: 1 win & 11 nominations

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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

Audience Consensus

It Comes at Night” is a horror movie that will make you want to lock your doors and never leave your house again. The tension is so strong that you’ll be on the edge of your seat the entire time. The characters are believable and the fear is contagious. Just make sure you’re ready for some unresolved moral dilemmas and a shocking denouement. Overall, it’s a slow-burning thriller that relies on shadow and sound to terrify, and it mostly succeeds. Just don’t expect a happy ending.

Storyline

After a mysterious apocalypse, 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 in It Comes at Night.

Production Company(ies)
Shochiku

Distributor
A24

Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)

Filming Location(s)
Woodstock, New York, USA

MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for violence, disturbing images, and language

Year of Release
2017

Technical Specs

Color:

Color
Sound mix:

Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio:

2.39 : 1
Runtime:

1h 37m
Language(s):

English
Country of origin:

United States
Release date:

Release Date (Theaters): Jun 9, 2017 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 12, 2017

Genre(s)
Horror

Keyword(s)
It Comes at Night, horror, Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, Kelvin Harrison Jr., directed by Trey Edward Shults, written by Trey Edward Shults, produced by

Box Office Details

Worldwide gross: $19,735,344
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $23,805,484
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,649
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 2,596,018

US/Canada gross: $13,985,117
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $16,869,353
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,464
US/Canada opening weekend: $5,988,370
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $7,223,388
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,035

Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $5,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $6,031,180
Production budget ranking: 1,843
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $3,247,791
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $14,526,513
ROI to date (est.): 157%
ROI ranking: 749

Cast & Crew

Joel Edgerton

Paul

Christopher Abbott

Will

Carmen Ejogo

Paul

Will

Sarah

Kim

Travis

Joel Edgerton – Paul
Christopher Abbott – Will
Carmen Ejogo – Sarah
Riley Keough – Kim
Kelvin Harrison Jr. – Travis
Griffin Robert Faulkner – Andrew

Trey Edward Shults

David Kaplan

Andrea Roa

Director

Writer

Producer

Director(s)
Trey Edward Shults

Writer(s)
Trey Edward Shults

Producer(s)
David Kaplan, Andrea Roa

Film Festivals

Awards & Nominations
1 win & 11 nominations

Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Kambole Campbell

K. Austin Collins

Jason Anderson

David Stratton

Edward Porter

One Room With A View

The Ringer

Sight & Sound

The Australian

Times (UK)

IT COMES AT NIGHT
All Critics (258) | Top Critics (70) | Fresh (225) | Rotten (33)
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.

August 25, 2018 | Rating: 4/5

Kambole Campbell
One Room With A View
TOP CRITIC
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.

August 10, 2017

K. Austin Collins
The Ringer
TOP CRITIC
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.

July 19, 2017

Jason Anderson
Sight & Sound
TOP CRITIC
It’s a simple exercise in terror that avoids too much explicit violence, and a quietly impressive little movie.

July 14, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5

David Stratton
The Australian
TOP CRITIC
The characters’ behaviour rings true, the tension is strong and the oily darkness of it all looks good.

July 11, 2017 | Rating: 3/5

Edward Porter
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
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.

July 11, 2017 | Rating: 4/5

Ed Potton
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
Viewers unaccustomed to confronting and unresolved moral dilemmas may recoil.

April 4, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/4

Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
An immaculately crafted film from a director who is at the top of his game, but the script is missing a few key parts to make it something truly special.

December 29, 2021 | Rating: 3/5

Drew Dietsch
FANDOM
A compact thriller that mostly succeeds until an ending that doesn’t feel ambiguous as much as it feels unfocused and unfinished.

October 6, 2021 | Rating: 2.5/4

Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
Writer/director Trey Edward Shults makes the most of the least, relying on shadow and sound to terrify.

May 15, 2021 | Rating: 3/5

Michael J. Casey
Michael J. Cinema
One of the most tonally cohesive and claustrophobic films of the year…

April 14, 2021

Jim Rohner
Battleship Pretension
Effective as both a deliberately paced allegory with a sense of dread throughout, as well as a horror movie you can take at face value that’s full of solid jump scares.

February 6, 2021 | Rating: 5/5

Patrick Cavanaugh
The Wolfman Cometh…

Plot
After a mysterious apocalypse, 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 in It Comes at Night.

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