It Comes At Night's Ending Explained

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It Comes At Night left a lot of people feeling confused — here’s the indie horror’s ambiguous ending explained. Directed by Trey Edward Shults, It Comes At Night is a post-apocalyptic movie with a difference. Rather than an action-packed fest with zombies running riot, it’s a subdued slow burn that focuses on a family’s attempts to survive in a world ravaged by a mysterious and unexplained virus that has killed off a large swathe of the population. All of this leads into It Comes At Night's ending which results in a horrific tragedy.

One of the best Netflix originals from 2018, It Comes At Night opens with an introduction to said family – dad Paul (Joel Edgerton, The Gift), wife Sarah (Carmen Ejogo), their teenage son Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr), and pet dog Stanley – as they are forced to kill Sarah’s father Bud (David Pendleton) after he has succumbed to the virus. The family has been surviving in a ramshackle cabin in the woods cut off from fellow survivors until a man named Will (Christopher Abbott, First Man) breaks into the house. After making sure he’s virus-free and finding out he has a wife (Riley Keough’s Kim) and a young son (Andrew, played by Griffin Robert Faulkner), Paul reluctantly allows Will and his family to live with them. Unfortunately, not everyone makes it through It Comes At Night's ending.

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Throughout the A24 movie It Comes At Night, Travis is plagued by nightmares about the virus and his grandfather’s death that blur the line between reality and hallucination. One night, Travis finds young Andrew sleeping in his grandfather’s old room and discovers their missing dog Stanley gravely wounded and infected at the cabin’s supposedly secured front door. Distrust