It Comes At Night [2025]

We watch Paul and Will circle one another like wary animals. They share meals and bourbon, but their eyes are always scanning, always calculating. The tension crescendos in scenes that would be mundane in peacetime—fixing a roof, looking for the dog—but become high-stakes chess matches in the context of the apocalypse. The film posits that in the absence

But the audience, trained by the film’s title, is waiting for the dark. It Comes at Night

The film’s most genius sequence is a masterclass in tension without a monster. We watch Paul and Will circle one another like wary animals