The hype for It Comes at Night has slowly been creeping in. It all started with one of the best posters I’ve ever seen. Then a vague teaser piqued our interest even more. Since, A24 has been trickling information out in small doses, with each and every new piece of information getting us overly excited for the next Joel Edgerton thriller. The infectious fervor is spreading after this past weekend’s world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival, which held a secret screening of Trey Edward Shults’ film. Out very own Kalyn Corrigan was on hand, raving in her review, calling it a “haunting post-apocalyptic fever dream.”
With the cat out of the bag, A24 is now going full steam with their promotions, sharing a brand new trailer that finally reveals what the film is about. Looking like a modern take on Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever, It Comes at Night looks like a rabid paranoid infection thriller that harks all the way back to George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. The red door? It’s the only way in, and only way out. There are rules, with the main one being that you don’t want to go out at night. Why? Because that when it comes. There appears to be some sort of infection and keeping locked up at night keeps everything at bay, until it gets in. I can’t wait to see what comes next when it’s released in theaters on June 9th.
A man (Joel Edgerton) learns that the evil stalking his family home may be only a prelude to horrors that come from within.
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge.
Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within him as he learns that the protection of his family comes at the cost of his soul.
Riley Keough, Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbot, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. also star.
