Sorry for the nightmares the above image may cause. You can see it again below!
We’ve been mighty curious about A24’s Trey Edward Shults-directed horror film It Comes at Night ever since the eerie teaser dropped back in February; for the last couple months, plot details have been so scant that we really had no idea what to expect. But EW just got the scoop on some more details today that clarify the plot, along with a couple brand spankin’ new images.
The site notes that the film, starring Joel Edgerton, will center on “a civilization-destroying pandemic,” with the main characters (a father, mother and teenage son) holed up in a remote house in the woods. “When an intruder arrives, pleading for help, they are forced to choose between kindness and potential infection. And this is one killer sickness.”
Makeup artist Jessie Eden told the site that real life illnesses such as the Bubonic plague and the Ebola virus were used as reference for the fictional contagion, which is particularly nasty.
But it’s not all about gross-out visuals. Edgerton promised that It Comes at Night will be an intelligent horror film, rather than what he referred to as “blood porn.”
Check out the new images below!
In the film…
A man (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.
