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It Comes At Night

It Comes At Night - in which a small family is trying to survive after the apocalypse, and it is hard to make friends. Okay, first of all, really scary. The husband and wife have a son, and there used to be a grandfather the son could hang out with, but he got sick and died and had to be burned. Horribly and sadly. So, they've got a nice, fortified compound, but it gets broken into one night by some guy. The husband ties the guy up to see if he's sick, and he isn't, so upon interrogation the guy reveals that he has a wife and child a few miles away, and they are out of water, but they have livestock to trade. He also says a few suspicious things, but we let that slide because he does seem sincere on some other points. So, the two men go to retrieve the wife and child, leaving the wife and teenage son Travis at home with the dog. The husbands get ambushed by guys with guns, and the guy hesitates to shoot one of their attackers and then hesitates when asked if he knew them. That's when I would have shot him. But, being nicer than me, the husband goes and gets this guy's family and they all start to live together and everything is not so horrible for a while. Then, while Travis and his dad are out foraging, the dog runs away to attack something, and comes home a few days later really sick. It is so sad. Travis is devastated, as am I. Okay, then things continue to deteriorate from there, and the little boy opens the quarantine door by accident/sleepwalking, and Travis helps him back to bed before he realizes the entire story, so the main character of the movie gets sick as well. Like, every night Travis has been having these slow and nauseating nightmares, and sometimes he gets sick in them, and its terrifying. So, the guy and his wife and child try to leave, but they're definitely gonna come back when they need stuff, so there is a fight and the sick child gets shot, but only the mom is really upset about it, because I am mad at him for getting Travis sick, and he was kinda dead already. Then Travis dies, and I guess he gets to see his Grandpa and dog again in heaven, which will be nice. They don't show any of that.


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