Review of It Comes at Night (2017) by Hones40 — 09 Jun 2017

Short answer: This is the worst good movie ever.

The performances were really good. The cinematography was really good. The setting was believable, and with the movie being only an hour and thirty minutes, the story carried itself efficiently without ever feeling like it dragged on. All these elements should make for a quality film, right?

Hell no.

Let's get one thing out of the way first-this movie was so mis-advertised that it makes you sick. You walk in expecting a horror movie and you get a psychological thriller. But even if you somehow were expecting a psychological thriller, it STILL doesn't deliver based upon all the glaring plotholes and dead-end twists leading to nothing. Stupid stuff happens left and right, like introducing a love triangle into the story but it going absolutely nowhere. The idea of actual monsters is flirted with but leads to nothing. A supernatural 3rd party is tossed in for mystery but nothing comes of that either. For christ's sake, they don't even explain why they don't go out at night. The film's most frustrating element is definitely the ending, not so much because of how it ends, but because of the other countless number of ways it could have that would have been much more interesting. It sets itself up perfectly for all sorts of horrifying scenarios but does absolutely nothing with them in the name of retaining this artsy, psychological horror vibe and hoping the audience will be pretentious enough to worship it's blue-balls inducing conclusion.