Paranoia runs high in the second It Comes at Night trailer

Last Updated on July 31, 2021

A new trailer has arrived online for writer/director Trey Edward Shults’ psychological horror film IT COMES AT NIGHT, coinciding with a secret screening that our own Chris Bumbray attended at the Overlook Film Festival. You can check out the trailer below, and CLICK HERE to read Bumbray’s 8/10 review of the film.

Starring Joel Edgerton, Riley Keough, Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbot, and Kelvin Harrison Jr., IT COMES AT NIGHT has the following synopsis: 

A man learns that the evil stalking his family home may be only a prelude to horrors that come from within.

Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge.

Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous within him as he learns that the protection of his family comes at the cost of his soul.

The first trailer really told us nothing about the movie, just getting across an unsettling atmosphere. The second trailer reveals a little more, but still keeps an air of mystery around the film.

This looks like it could be something that’s right up my alley, as I tend to enjoy films about characters trapped in intense situations finding out that other people are a greater threat than whatever more nightmarish threat is waiting outside their locked doors. Bumbray said that’s exactly what IT COMES AT NIGHT is, so I’m looking forward to its June 9th release.