This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Blistering performances.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Wanna know what comes at night? Do you really wanna know?ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! The "monster" of the film is nothing more than the paranoia and distrust of others that exists in a post apocalyptic world where most people are dead from a very deadly disease.Wanna know what I thought was coming at night? ANYTHING!!! The trailers for this movie that were out before it's release, and look on YouTube or read the reviews here (I'm betting someone else mentions this) showed a series of scenes that gave the impression that this was a creature feature, monster movie, whatever. It could have been aliens, demons, cannibals, whatever... from what I was shown I was sold a completely different film than what I got. Add to that the fact that THE TITLE GIVES THE SAME IDEA to people and fed in to the misleading trailers and you walk away feeling ripped off plain and simple.If it had been marketed as a film along the lines of The Road or a darker less religious (maybe even atheistic with how devoid of any hope the film is in the world it creates) Book of Eli and I totally would have walked away liking it. In a world where society has collapsed it does a great job of showing just how untrusting, un-neighborly, cruel and selfish (more so the 2nd family than the central) people can really be when they cast aside the rules we live by. I just don't see what explanation the filmmaker could possibly have for going with this title, and by doing so, it makes it impossible for him to avoid suspicion and claim innocence regarding the misleading, false-advertising trailers. Sorry, can't blame that one on the studio, your title fed right into the deception.And btw, if that's the intent and you think audiences ENJOY being tricked, ask Trey Parker how that kind of crap works and if he has any regrets over the early years of South Park. We don't like being the butt of the joke or somebody's lab rat. Making sure to check the directors name so I never watch anything else of theirs like ever. I'm sure they would know from reading all this what exactly I would suggest that they go and do to themselves.

But.. I still don't know what comes at night. That really of bothers me, considering it's the title of the film. I know it's labeled a mystery/horror, but it left a bit too much mystery. I would like to have known if the whole family was actually sick before Paul killed them or just the kid? And I kind of wanted to see the sick kid.. even if that's a little macabre. The ending was a little bit of a let down as well with them just sickly, staring blankly at one another; but there you have it. I honestly really dug the movie and would've given it a higher rating if it wasn't for my exigent need to know what comes at night.

Despite the title sounding very sinister, the film is anything but what it implies. Too little information is given about the 'disease' and the rest of the world. The absence of CGI is refreshing, though, and makes it that much more realistic. Great character bonding, too.But what comes at night? The sick? The sickness? What? Nothing came at night...

From the description of the movie on Netflix - and the title of the movie itself - I was expecting "It Comes at Night" to be a full blooded horror movie. But in actual fact, it really isn't. Though there are a few creepy sequences, the movie is more of a straight drama, a kind of post-apocalypse movie that spends most of its time running at a fairly sober level. Actually, the movie being different than what I expected didn't bother me at all. What did bother me was that there are some key features of the movie that don't have enough explanation at all. For example, the part where the dog goes crazy and runs off, and a later scene about a door being open mysteriously. The movie definitely has some strengths - it does not spoon-feed its audience about the plot setup, instead making you learn little by little what happened. There are some tense moments, dramatic and/or creepy. And I wasn't bored at any moment. But the many unexplained questions that come up ultimately make this a (near) miss. Still, if the filmmakers attempt to make another movie, I will give it a look, since there were some good things in this film, and they may have learned from their mistakes here.