"It Comes At Night" is Coming to Scare You
Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 10:30AM 
Chris here. While yesterday’s trailer for Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled certainly rattled us, here’s another first look to give you the more terrified kind of chills: Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha follow-up, It Comes At Night.
Shults’ first film was a decidedly homegrown effort, but this looks to be a spooky step up in scale and ambition if no less psychologically taxing. The director has also assembled an intriguing cast with Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, and Christopher Abbott. The trailer keeps the specifics of this post-apocalyptic vision under wraps, but hints at some kind of malevolent force at play while Shults continues to mine tense family dynamics. From the opening shot of the trailer alone, we can probably bet this will be one of the year's most formiddable horror films.
Krisha was one of last year’s many promising directorial debuts (even if it had been kicking around for a while). Considering it played the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes, might Night be heading to the Croisette in some form as well? It Comes At Night opens on August 25.
Reader Comments (8)
Oooh, I love this trailer. Shows just enough to hook you, which of course means they'll release a 3 minute trailer that shows everything and spoils the movie, so maybe I'll skip that one. Plus I loved Krisha so I'm excited to see what else Shults can do.
Wouldn't it be awesome if Krisha (the actress) was in this?
Wouldn't be even more awesome if Krisha (the character) were the Big Bad?
@Corey - it's actually a sequel! Love it.
I nearly broke my bf's hand during Krisha. It was intense and personal. This trailer had me shaking with anticipatory joy!
Excellent trailer. Has me intrigued about this movie. Haven't seen Krisha yet, so it will go to the top of my list.
I'm so in. Krisha was a few scares away from being a horror film anyway (the beats were there without the boos) so this feels like a good step forward for the director. The score is already as bizarre as Krisha, so I can't wait.
Loved KRISHA. He's so good at showing internal paranoia, which would fit perfectly with a straight horror film.
YAAAS