It Comes at Night
It Comes at Night is a 2017 American post-apocalyptic psychological horror film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults. It stars Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Riley Keough. The film focuses on a family hiding in a forest as the Earth is taken over by a highly contagious disease.
Plot
A highly contagious disease ravages the planet. A couple, Paul and Sarah, and their teenage son Travis are secluded in their home deep in the woods in an undisclosed location. After Sarah's father, Bud, contracts the disease, they kill him, and burn his body in a shallow grave.
More details
author | Trey Edward Shults |
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director | Trey Edward Shults |
editor | Matthew Hannam Trey Edward Shults |
genre | horror thriller |
keywords | abandoned house ambush bleed break cry even fresh water hear home deep in the woods infect kill lock morning retreat return home search seclude shallow grave sleep sleepwalk suffer teenage son |
musicBy | Brian McOmber |
producer | Andrea Roa David Kaplan |
productionCompany | A24 Animal Kingdom |
publisher | A24 |
theme | independent post-apocalyptic psychological horror psychological thriller |