This was pretty much my reaction for the It Comes At Night poster, my first introduction to this movie. As I started watching this movie, much to my surprise, this is no demon/supernatural movie. Just an pretty basic unexplored virus, and when the movie ended, I was so engaged by the more important element of this movie that I didn't care about this disease. The human condition of destroying ourselves and nothing reveals this condition more than the point of surviving. If the Walking Dead's premise is the perfect model of how humanity can survive, needed one another and working together in the darkest of times, then It Comes At Night is the total opposite. This movie is pretty much a harsh warning against the disconnecting of the human element of caring for others and growing in a community. However, in the beginning, the steps the main character took to keep his family safe was understandable, but at the end of the movie, I'm asking myself, what's the purpose surviving when you can lose everything from completely cutting off strangers, instead of growing friends, while still being cautious.
I really enjoyed this movie. Joel Edgerton was great and the actor playing his son reminded me a lot of myself. The dream sequences were directed perfectly. I liked how all the horror moments in the movie took place within these dream sequences, and the rest of the movie was more of a intense experience.
