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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 lớn discuss something. What does it all mean?"> Positive Messages

The central message isn"t exactly clear, but whate


Characters occasionally show reluctant trust & try lớn help one another, but paranoia và brutality always win out. Those who are on the more loving và trusting end of the spectrum over up being punished for "letting down their guard.""> Positive Role Models

Characters occasionally show reluctant trust & t


Characters have gross, gory diseases: boils, black bile spilling out of their mouths, etc. Injured dog, bloody fur, plus painful whining. Guns và shooting, characters shot và killed (including children). Dead bodies are burned. Punching, beating with blunt objects. Character are imprisoned, gagged, và tied to lớn a tree. Scary nightmare sequences. Disturbing imagery và sounds."> Violence và Scariness

Characters have gross, gory diseases: boils, black


Couple kisses in a bathtub (no graphic nudity) và in bed. Sex noises heard -- heavy breathing, groaning, etc. -- through walls (nothing shown). In a nightmare sequences, a woman kisses a teen boy."> Sex, Romance & Nudity

Couple kisses in a bathtub (no graphic nudity) and


A few uses of "f--k" or "f--king," plus "s--t," "son of a bitch.""> Language

A few uses of "f--k" or "f--king," plus "s--t," "s


Characters nói qua a cup of whisky. Later, a character takes a drink of whisky alone."> Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

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Parents need lớn 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…


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 lớn discuss something. What does it all mean?

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Characters occasionally show reluctant trust and try to lớn help one another, but paranoia and brutality always win out. Those who are on the more loving & trusting end of the spectrum kết thúc up being punished for "letting down their guard."

Parents Need lớn Know

Parents need khổng lồ 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 và mature. Characters have gory diseases, with boils and black bile dribbling from their mouths, as well as guns & shooting. Characters are killed, bodies are burned, people punch & fight each other, and there"s a painfully injured dog. You can also expect nightmare sequences & disturbing images và sounds. A couple kisses n a bathtub & in bed, and sex noises are heard, but there"s no nudity. Language includes a few uses of "f--k," "s--t," & "bitch." Characters giới thiệu a casual drink of whisky.

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Trey Edward Shults post-apocalyptic indie horror It Comes At Night left a lot of people scratching their heads; here’s the movie’s ending explained.


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It Comes At Night left a lot of people feeling confused - here’s the indie horror’s ambiguous ending explained. Directed by Trey Edward Shults, It Comes At Night is a post-apocalyptic movie with a difference. Rather than an action-packed fest with zombies running riot, it’s a subdued slow burn that focuses on a family’s attempts lớn survive in a world ravaged by a mysterious & unexplained virus that has killed off a large swathe of the population. All of this leads into It Comes At Night"s ending which results in a horrific tragedy.


One of the best Netflix originals from 2018, It Comes At Night opens with an introduction khổng lồ said family – dad Paul (Joel Edgerton, The Gift), wife Sarah (Carmen Ejogo), their teenage son Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr), and pet dog Stanley – as they are forced khổng lồ kill Sarah’s father Bud (David Pendleton) after he has succumbed lớn the virus. The family has been surviving in a ramshackle cabin in the woods cut off from fellow survivors until a man named Will (Christopher Abbott, First Man) breaks into the house. After making sure he’s virus-free và finding out he has a wife (Riley Keough’s Kim) & a young son (Andrew, played by Griffin Robert Faulkner), Paul reluctantly allows Will và his family to live with them. Unfortunately, not everyone makes it through It Comes At Night"s ending.

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Throughout the A24 movie It Comes At Night, Travis is plagued by nightmares about the virus and his grandfather’s death that blur the line between reality & hallucination. One night, Travis finds young Andrew sleeping in his grandfather’s old room và discovers their missing dog Stanley gravely wounded & infected at the cabin’s supposedly secured front door. Distrust mounts between the two families as they blame each other for the security breach and suspect each other of bringing the virut into their home. All of this finally reaches a boiling point in It Comes At Night"s ending.


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In It Comes At Night"s ending, Paul – believing Andrew is sick – forces Will & his family out of the cabin. A fight breaks out that ends with Sarah shooting Will và Paul shooting Andrew và Kim. Later, a visibly infected Travis lies in bed and is comforted by his mother. The A24 horror film closes with a scene showing a devastated Paul & Sarah seated at a table, presumably having put Travis out of his misery và seemingly succumbing khổng lồ the virut themselves. The most simplistic reading of It Comes At Night’s ending is that Travis was the one who was infected all along & Will và his family were killed for nothing, but horror fans looking for firm answers will be frustrated.

Paul wouldn"t let Will và his family leave in It Comes At Night"s ending because of a line he mentioned in a previous conversation with Sarah and Travis. Paul basically said that if Will"s family leaves they"ll want to lớn take half of their supplies, and there"s always the possibility of the family coming back with nefarious intentions. Throughout It Comes At Night Paul"s lack of trust, which borders on paranoia, greatly informs his decision-making. Like with any zombie movie or TV show such as The Walking Dead, when he believes that Will"s family is sick he feels that it"s his responsibility to lớn put them out of their misery & in an act of self-preservation he kills them all.


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All the way up until It Comes At Night"s ending Travis experiences a number of surreal và terrifying nightmares. While these may seem complex & nonsensical they actually act as the film"s biggest size of foreshadowing. One of the first nightmares that Travis has includes seeing Will with hugely dilated pupils, basically meaning that Will has the mysterious sickness. This, along with his dream about Kim dripping bile into his mouth, foreshadows the events of It Comes At Night"s ending. If one were khổng lồ interpret the ending believing that Will và his family are the ones that are sick, then Travis" nightmares perfectly encapsulate và play into the final moments of the movie. This is highly likely in the underrated psychological horror, considering Kim"s impassioned plea lớn her son Andrew not to lớn let Paul "see his eyes". However, if one were lớn interpret It Comes At Night"s ending with Travis being the one who has been sick the entire time then the nightmares could be fever dreams brought on by the illness. Travis" nightmares still act as a narrative device in this instance, ultimately teasing his fate in the movie"s ending.


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It Comes At Night"s ending doesn’t give away who infected who, nor does the movie offer much information about the virut or what it does lớn people that necessitates the infected being killed. Similarly, the audience never discovers what the “It” of the title is or why it comes at night. The ambiguous ending is by thiết kế too, which is probably why It Comes At Night left critics so divided. It Comes At Night"s director Trey Edward Shults explained in an interview with Thrillist, "A lot of questions are left unanswered. That is intentional. I will say I left things the way they are for a reason và I hope it sticks with you.” 

Ultimately what supposedly comes at night is never truly explored in It Comes At Night"s ending, but audiences can ascertain that the virus" effects are enough lớn warrant killing someone. The most obvious answer is of course zombies and based on what happened lớn Travis" dog this could be the most likely conjecture. Otherwise, there"s no reason to kill someone after the vi khuẩn takes hold since masks và gloves seem to lớn protect their wearers & it"s doubtful that family members would kill one another over a regular virus; rather it makes more sense if it were to be a Night of the Living Dead type sickness. Too, the answer could simply just be the illness itself & may possibly trace back lớn Travis" nightmares. The nightmares could be a symptom of the sickness with the fever dreams letting the infected know beforehand what is about khổng lồ happen khổng lồ them. It"s true that It Comes At Night doesn"t ever let audiences know what "it" is, but these are the two most viable options.

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It Comes At Night"s ending plays off of Paul"s paranoia and mistrust lớn display the movie"s true meaning. Ultimately, it"s a film about self-preservation, how strict Darwinism hardens those against trust, and how paranoia leads khổng lồ false if not detrimental assumptions. American culture and capitalism have essentially boiled down to a "survival of the fittest" mentality, và when this adage is applied to lớn real life, it strips humanity along with it. It Comes At Night"s changing aspect ratio marks Travis" slow descent from being numbered among the "fittest" and his subsequent death. When one takes on Darwinism to the highest degree, it leads to an ultimate focus on self-preservation alone. Self-preservation, while necessary at times, is then taken to extremes, và it"s usually at the cost of one"s own humanity, as well as that of other people. When someone is solely honed in on themselves, it creates a lack of trust in others and paranoia that someone else could rise to the vị trí cao nhất of the food chain. Trey Edward Schultz hopes that the movie will stick with audiences, & his blatant criticisms of capitalism certainly vì chưng with It Comes At Night"s ending. That being said, both the ending and pretty much the whole premise of It Comes At Night is xuất hiện to individual interpretation & that’s precisely why it works so well as an exercise in this The Lighthouse-type psychological horror.