It Comes at Night

It Comes at Night (2017) is Trey Edward Shults's psychological horror from A24, and you can watch it online on iFILM. A deadly contagion is spreading across the world. Paul has sealed his wife and teenage son inside a remote house deep in the woods, ruling it by strict law: the door stays locked, and no one goes outside alone or without a mask.

One night an intruder breaks in — Will, scavenging water and shelter for his own family. After a tense vetting, Paul lets the strangers stay, and two households share one roof. But trust here is thinner than glass: a single cough, one locked red door, one of the son's nightmares, and suspicion spreads faster than any sickness. Joel Edgerton plays the father who will do anything for his own, Christopher Abbott the newcomer, with Carmen Ejogo and Riley Keough as their wives.

Shults isn't really filming a virus — he films the fear that turns men into monsters before the illness ever arrives. Few answers, suffocating quiet, and an ending that lands like a gut punch. Stream It Comes at Night (2017) online on iFILM.