It Comes at Night Movie Review
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Positive Messages
The central message isn’t exactly clear, but whatever it is, it’s extremely pessimistic, with no faith in human goodness or kindness. Clearly, however, the movie wishes viewers to discuss something. What does it all mean?
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Positive Role Models
Characters occasionally show reluctant trust and try to help one another, but paranoia and brutality always win out. Those who are on the more loving and trusting end of the spectrum end up being punished for “letting down their guard.”
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Violence & Scariness
Characters have gross, gory diseases: boils, black bile spilling out of their mouths, etc. Injured dog, bloody fur, plus painful whining. Guns and shooting, characters shot and killed (including children). Dead bodies are burned. Punching, beating with blunt objects. Character are imprisoned, gagged, and tied to a tree. Scary nightmare sequences. Disturbing imagery and sounds.
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Sex, Romance & Nudity
Couple kisses in a bathtub (no graphic nudity) and in bed. Sex noises heard — heavy breathing, groaning, etc. — through walls (nothing shown). In a nightmare sequences, a woman kisses a teen boy.
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Language
A few uses of “f–k” or “f–king,” plus “s–t,” “son of a bitch.”
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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking
Characters share a cup of whisky. Later, a character takes a drink of whisky alone.
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Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that It Comes at Night has been promoted as a horror film, but it’s not exactly that. Nor is it a thriller or a sci-fi movie; it’s more like an apocalyptic, deeply pessimistic, deeply unsettling drama. It’s not the kind of scary fun that horror lovers usually enjoy, though it’s definitely violent and mature. Characters have gory diseases, with boils and black bile dribbling from their mouths, as well as guns and shooting. Characters are killed, bodies are burned, people punch and fight each other, and there’s a painfully injured dog. You can also expect nightmare sequences and disturbing images and sounds. A couple kisses n a bathtub and in bed, and sex noises are heard, but there’s no nudity. Language includes a few uses of “f–k,” “s–t,” and “bitch.” Characters share a casual drink of whisky.
