It Comes at Night
classified 15Please note: This was screened in July 2017
This dark, post-apocalyptic nightmare sees two families living in a remote farmhouse under a self-imposed quarantine (all whilst an infection is raging out in the wild) - and has been hailed as a horror triumph by blown-away critics.
Imagine the end of the world. Now imagine something worse. This is the world 17 year-old Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr) most navigate as he comes to grapple mounting terrors - external and otherwise - in the aftermath of an unnamed outbreak. Secure within their home with his vigilant and heavily armed parents (Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo), Travis must juggle fear, grief and paranoia amid scarce resources when a desperate young couple (Christopher Abbott and Riley Keough) seek refuge in the family home with their young child.
Despite the best of intentions of both families, panic and mistrust boil over as the horrors of the outside world creep ever closer. But they are nothing compared to the horrors within, where Travis discovers that his father’s commitment to protecting the family may cost him his soul...