It Comes at Night was released in 2017. Written and directed by Trey Edward Shults and produced by David Kaplan and Andrea Roa. The film was distributed by A24 with an estimated bydget of $5,000,000. It went on to gross $14,000,000 domestically in the United States.
Shults' screenplay came about after the loss of his father to cancer. He was writing about his pain from the relationship with his father from childhood to his death, but creating a fictional narrative based upon his emotional experience which led to the creation of the story [Couch, A. (2017, June 9) 'It Comes at Night' Director on His Personal Post-Apocalyptic Tale. Retrieved from https://www.hollywoodreporter.com].
The writer/director also cites the 1562 painting The Triumph of Death, The Shining, Night of the Living Dead and works from Paul Thomas Anderson as his references for shooting the film. The cast includes Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbot, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Riley Keough and it premiered at The Overlook Film Festival in Oregon.
