It Comes at Night (2017)
Viewers who wait for demons in 'It Comes at Night' , this movie is more to psychological terror.
It Comes at Night proves that sometimes the greater horror comes from the paranoia of oneself. Is something we hear that is true "something" we hear or something we THINK we hear? "It" in the title of this movie does not need a definition. It is what we fear. The prejudice makes it terrible. Viewers who are waiting for demons in It Comes at Night will be kecele, because this movie is more to psychological terror. It is designed to make us uncomfortable only through suspens and atmosphere. This is not something we expect from a horror movie.
Look at the opening scene of the movie. A weary old man seemed resigned to accept his fate. He knows what will happen to him. Two men wear gas masks and then carry them to the forest. The older man shot the old man, then burned it in the hole they had dug earlier. What's going on here, we do not know yet. But we can see that this murder also left grief for the perpetrators.
Apparently, the two men were the daughters and grandchildren of the old man, Paul ( Joel Edgerton ) and Travis ( Kelvin Harrison Jr. ). The old man also left one of his sons, Sarah ( Carmen Ejogo ) who is Paul's wife and a dog named Stanley. They were afraid of something that had happened to the old man. From their conversation and the necessity to always use a mask outside the home, there seems to be some kind of virus that has plagued in their area. Is this a zombie virus? Not important. This is clearly deadly, until they have to hold anything out there so as not to get into their house in the middle of the forest.
The creator of this film is Trey Edward Shults who raised the premise that halu into a film that halu, but very stressful. The previous Shults movie, Krisha is a minimalist psychological thriller about the family, which is played by her and her own relatives. With a larger budget, for It Comes at Night he can hold a real actor and design more competent drawings. But the scale of the film remains relatively the same. This is a small thriller about family-two families to be exact-in a claustrophobic environment. All the windows are on board, the lighting is very limited, and there is only one entrance, the door is painted red. The second family came after someone banged on their door. This alien man successfully demolished by Paul to be interrogated. Claimed to be named Will ( Christopher Abbott ), the man had said that he just wanted to find a drink for his son and his wife. "They are not" sick "," he claims. But Paul does not believe it. But eventually Paul agrees to accommodate Will's wife, Kim ( Riley Keough ) and his young son, Andrew ( Griffin Robert Faulkner ). Bere six of them live in one house, but the tension is even higher, because they do not know each other and we do not know what each motive. Paul is a tough guy who just wants to protect his family, and this is what makes Edgerton so scary. He can do anything. Will was a fine gentleman, but his confession was a bit odd. The Travis who entered puberty, began to show interest in Will's wife, even to erotic dreams. It was a rule, that at night no one came out of the room. But when he heard voices from outside, Travis brought his lantern, always wanting to check in case .
Well, I'll stop here. What is clear, this film will make you more shudder instead of shouting in horror. Its narrow setting and minimal lighting make the atmosphere of the movie haunted. Shults use long and slow shadows to emphasize the darkness of the dark corridors or rows of dense trees. To escalate the audience's tension and expectation, he also applied some aspect ratio games. Pay attention to how the image ratios change before the movie climax. It's amazing how he can get the terror out of something practically nothing .
Shults gave little explanation. It provokes our imagination to guess what is really out there. But he seems more willing to convey that terror actually comes from the man himself, and this terror does not need context. The terror is in the mind, a kind of basic instinct . Man is living for himself. In this critical situation, which is more important: morality or survival?
Nevertheless, Schults method also makes the film like no contain. I can not say much about this. At the end of the film, I can not dispel a little feeling that the terror is " Deus ex Machina ", or worse " MacGuffin ". Shults can go away after building the movie. Sometimes the mystery is more sticky when he is not explained further. Sometimes we need to know what exactly makes noise at night. The choice is in your hand.
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