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New ‘It Comes at Night’ Trailer Thickens the Paranoia
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
There are certain horror fans who perpetuate the notion that the genre just isn’t what it used to be, but anyone who’s been paying attention knows that to be quite untrue. In the wake of the critically acclaimed Get Out comes Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes at Night, which currently has a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
Ahead of the film’s release on June 9th, check out a new trailer below. It’s short, intense and mysterious, so don’t worry about it spoiling details about the movie.
Joel Edgerton plays a man who 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.
Our very own Kalyn Corrigan has seen the film, raving in her review and calling it a “haunting post-apocalyptic fever dream.”
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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