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‘It Comes at Night’ Gets More Plot Details and New Images
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.
Exclusives
‘Home Bodies’ Image & Poster Introduce Isolated Twins in Sci-Fi Nightmare [Fantasia 2026]
Sci-fi thriller Home Bodies is set to unsettle audiences at the 30th edition of Fantasia, and our exclusive image introduces a peculiar pair of twins at the center.
Home Bodies makes its World Premiere July 23, at 9:30 PM at Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, with the filmmakers and cast in attendance.
An eerie new poster created by Justin Erickson of Phantom City Creative heralds the film’s premiere.
In the film, “Red and Blue, twins raised in total isolation by an automated house, live according to the rules set by Papa, a disembodied voice behind a locked door who provides food, shelter, entertainment, and order. Their carefully controlled world is disrupted by the arrival of Pal, an enigmatic humanoid stranger whose presence begins to fracture the only life the twins have ever known.”
It’s a premise that calls another Canadian creeper to mind and has us intrigued: Pin.
Emma Ho, Ian Ho, and Ess Hödlmoser star.
Home Bodies is directed and produced by Casey Walker, who returns to Fantasia more than a decade after his horror-comedy A Little Bit Zombie screened at the festival in 2012. He’s since gone on to produce a number of defining Canadian genre films like In a Violent Nature, The Void, and Pyewacket.
“I started my career in Montreal and Fantasia has been part of my life ever since,” said Walker. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to where it all started and share Home Bodies on such a special anniversary of the festival.“
Karen Harnisch (Infinity Pool, Sleeping Giant) also produces. Executive producers are Todd Brown (The Raid, Mandy) and Chad Archibald (undertone).
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