iTunes Exclusive Episode It Comes At Night

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producer of the Club House podcast and I don't like things to creep me out just to say
Tyrell but I'm not alone for this particular episode joining me across the desk as he
does from time to time is the official fact checker of this show and a man whose
constitution for creepy stuff is a lot higher than mine and god bless him for it you may
know him is fun don't go but his mom and name him don't for it I'm gonna call him
don't for it. Welcome sir. You know we're gonna be speaking about the wood I grew
up in the woods in Montana I'm just saying right today whatever we do one of these things
it is to review something this is no exception a brand new film from director
tray Edward Schultz. It is called it comes at night.
I've always heard the whole thing. Yes sir. We got to think Ashley and already ready to
sing. I am ally in a brand of marketing. Got to think Ashley a whole crew for the
invite. Thank you. Thank you. You're disposed with being an actor. I was otherwise booked
so I apologize but this director who also wrote the screenplay for this only has one other
film to feature to his name. It's called Creech Not. But here's what you need to know
I'm gonna read you straight from from IMDB and what they have to save.
Secure with a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world. A man has established
a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son but this will soon be put to the test
when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge. This has Joel Edgerton who you might
I remember from one of my favorite films from a few years ago called Warrior. Also Kylie
I'm sorry I'm I'm sure I say this correctly. Riley key out. Now. Do we remember who she is
done? Yes. No. She was on Mad Max though. She is Elvis's granddaughter. Oh really? Okay.
All right. Did not know that. She is Elvis's granddaughter. I've been in quite a few things lately.
She was a man. Her career's kind of taken off a little bit here. Yeah. I think it's the third
or fourth film I've seen her name on this year. You saw this. I did not. This man this
thing looks creepy and I want to I want to pick a bone with you real quick. What's that?
When I saw you at another screen that we went to this week, you said to me, Rob is not
a horror film. It's more of a thriller. I'm calling shenanigans on you because I was on
Twitter today and their official Twitter feed quoted a review that said one of the great
horror films of this year. So I am crying and that comes from their official Twitter feed.
So I'm crying shenanigans. I was crying with them because this is more of a suspense than
a horror. It's more of the edge of the seats suspense film more than anything. Was it creepy
though? I was just to start with that. Okay. There's a couple. I'll just say this. There's
a couple scenes where it runs right in there on a half. Yeah. Where the suspense hits
in which you might put you on the maybe scary a little bit. But it's more of the suspense
of there's no like monsters in this thing. You know what I'm saying? There's no hack
amount like Jason or Freddy or anything like that. That's out the window. When I think horror
films, I think it's stuff like that. This film is based, it takes place at one house in the woods
in the middle of nowhere. Right. Minds me back home. Now would you call this post-apocalyptic or
not? Yes. Okay. I want to say apocalyptic. I'd say basically you find out through watching
a film that some kind of plague hit the society. Okay. Do they do you know what the plague is
or it just is a thing? It's a plague where you see them when they interact with other humans
and stuff that they wear like those gas masks and stuff like that and wear the gloves.
But is it like a zombie thing or is it like a flesh eating virus or do you know what it is?
It's because some kind of virus that just makes you ill. Okay. So it's kind of like,
remember movie outbreak with dust and hop and stuff? I do. Maybe something like that. Okay. Okay.
But you see the symptoms and stuff. But it doesn't make anybody like real crazy loon and stuff
like that and just make some sick. All right. So you're worried about more of the virus than anything.
And you found that out over time. Okay. So basically, which is a thing I love about this film,
which I put in my written view, www dot the clubhouse.plcast.com. That's our website.
That it takes place at one location, basically. That's it. It's kind of for the most part kind of like the hateful
hate was. Yes. Okay. But the hateplate did not take it just place at one location. There was a lot.
I mean, most of it was in that cabin. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. This thing took place at the house only.
Well, so there was no exterior shots even? Well, no, the at the house in the yard of the house.
Okay. So there are some external shots. Yeah. But it's all in that house area.
And so what you did is is it like a small cabin. It's like a two four house. It's like a big house.
Oh, okay. Like, you know, it'd be like one of those houses that may be X Macania.
Remember that. Oh, X Macania. Okay. Yeah. Remember that. And there's like, okay. Big house out in the middle of nowhere.
Okay. I'm with you. I'm with you right now. Okay. So there's like, there is a house you see in the film when
they're cutting wood outside the wood, you know, because electricity's gone and all that. Right.
But it's like it says this is near his house. It's half mile down the road. You know, so it's in it.
It's in the woods, but there are some neighbors, but you have to walk to get to your neighbor's house.
And basically, you would all you find out over time watching the film is that a play kit.
And they've up the cities in their own their house. Okay. And so they still have the guns,
because you never know what's going to happen to somebody infected or they're going to try to steal your supplies.
Right. It's the doomsday kind of thing. Okay. And they have their house set up.
Really well. We're basically there's only one door in and one door out the red door,
what you see in the film. Now, there are some issues where they keep it locked. They keep like
plastic and outside that door. So they can just contaminate. No, that's up when they go inside.
There's one point that you'd say scary where the doors open at night. It's like, oh, the doors open.
Oh, all right. Yeah. No, it can't have disease. This is not a good thing. Yeah. That's fair enough. Yeah.
But basically what happens is you have
Ederton, plays Paul. You got his wife Sarah played by E. H.O.
And their son Kelvin Harris and Jr. He would call him the main character. He plays a 17-year-old son.
Okay. But the main family is the main characters. But if you had to pick, you know, best actor,
you'd be herring to. Would you see this as an ensemble film? What do you mean?
I was like, everybody's kind of unequal ground. Almost. Okay. Fair enough. Well, the family,
I'd say for sure, ensemble. I'd say 90% ensemble. But then what happens is
the character of Will played by Abbott. He ends up at the house side with Christopher Abbott. Yeah.
He ends up at the house thinking, okay. Is this abandoned or not? If then they say they get the guns on
him. And he says, here's a deal. We need water. We got some supplies. Let's trade.
And the end of staying there more is these people are coming in with supplies and bigger numbers
we're going to be more safe. That kind of thing. But still, Paul doesn't trust Will because he's not
family and are coming in. They seem like good intent because he's expecting that maybe he's got
the virus and doesn't know it or is it just more of a, I just find you weird and I don't trust you.
I just don't trust you. Okay. Fair enough. You're not family. But the tent seems good, but it's,
you know, trust but verify. All right. So then it kind of takes off from there. They have the
7-year-old son. But then the issue with the dog. But basically, there are only 9 people in this film.
Okay. But those 3-year-olds are real minor. They probably have 5 minutes on screen. So did you
feel that everybody worked well together? Yes. Yes. And I thought really, if I had to give a shout out,
it would be to Edgetton on this one. Joel Edgetton is a great actor. I'm a huge fan of this. He plays
the guy who, he's got protective family, but he's still has compassion. He's a very versatile actor.
Yeah. If you look at his resume, the guy's done a lot of really neat stuff that you go, oh wait,
that was him? Yeah. And Harrison does good too. Kind of a, you know, newcomer to the game.
There was one, basically, Griffin Robert Faulkner plays a 7-year-old kid. He did pretty good for
his role too. All right. Kind of minor. Fair enough. Basically, it's 6 people. And the family comes in.
And then there's something happens. And the question is, did the virus get out? Okay. Now,
we don't want to go any deeper than that. Because they don't want to really, it's all we want to do.
Okay. Okay. Now, here's the question the thing. And one of our fellow critics we see in a few
times Nathan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He can get real in depth. And he kind of
maybe think about this film. Hmm. Harrison plays the main character. You could say at night,
he has lots of dreams and they do some dreams, he coinces with which are really out of the way. And
you mentioned this in your written review, which again, is located conveniently for your perusal
at www dot the clubhouse podcast.com. Which is our website still? All right. He has dreams.
And the question is, at certain points and Nathan maybe think about this, was this real or was
this a dream? Because you know there's some dream scenes because he wakes up. Right. But there's one
sequence of other moments that you're not sure where the line is. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Yes. All right. After
talking with him and think, oh, okay. This kind of spun you on your head a little bit. Yeah. All right.
When you think after the fact that he talked with other critics, this is one of those I'd like to
see again and really look through the eyes of what he was saying on these little clues. You know,
here's the thing that kind of bugged me at the end without giving in anyway. Yeah. Spoiler free.
When the movie ends, it's a fast ending. So you're saying that the the resolution after the
climax is too quick. Yes. Okay. The last two minutes kind of puts everything together, but it gave
a lot of clues, but it didn't answer. Fair enough. You know what I'm saying? All right. You don't
you have more quick and finishes with more questions and more questions than you get answers. It gives you
some clues. But you think this happened. But it gives you that thing of, did it really happen?
Are we 100% sure that's happened? All right. You know, so it's rule once thinkers. Here's
I thought this was going to be a horror film coming in one of those scary. What it says it is.
It's a suspense. It's a suspense thrillers. What I call it because there's no monster. No. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, is everything I internet you retrew? You know what I'm saying? Who's internet
I'm looking at? Yeah. But that's what it says. It does have suspense moments. You know,
but it was a great thriller, which really kept me on the edge of the seat. And I love the
versatility. Again, of Ederton, who plays a guy? He's awesome. I'm a big fan. Yeah. He plays the guy who
he cares about his family, but he has compassion and everything. So, you know, um, but on, I know
there's not really too much of the film. I didn't like, because it really made you think.
Okay. Cool. It's the best way to put it. So it's not one. You wouldn't call it mindless entertainment.
Oh, no. How does this? Because it's one that you need to focus on. Yeah. As it's going to be put away.
But I was presently surprised on how much I like this film. Yeah. That's good news. Because a lot of
people don't understand like, yes, you look at films from an everyman point of view. But you're a
tough critic, sir. Yeah. You're not afraid to let it fly. Yeah. And that's why I think one of the things
that brings people listening is that you're honest with them. Yeah. Because Chad and I tend to look
at things through different lenses that you do. And I think the way of the three of us work together,
it kind of works out. Like me without the great credinal that. And if things, I know you don't
hate horror films and stuff like this. But what I tell you that when we, the next screening
I saw this, you said it wasn't a horror film. But I said, I think you would love this. Okay.
So what we're going to do now is we're going to get straight to the final analysis. And the
way we do the final analysis on the show. We don't give you thumbs up thumbs down. We're not going
to give you number rankings or letter grades or, you know, four cabins or whatever.
Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the Empire, they want us to go deeper. We're
going to go deeper. I'm going to ask Don up to two questions. Question number one would be Don
what you see this again. If he answers no, then we're done here. But if he says yes,
I'm going to want to know how far he's willing to go to see it again. The scale from best to the
worst of the best is four price at the theater, twilight, matinee, early morning on a weekend,
second run at the dollar theater, actually leaving your house to go get it from Netflix.
I'm from Red Box, streaming on Netflix or watching it on cable. Don, would you see it
comes at night again? Definitely. I was surprised at how much. How far you want to go to see it?
Don't think the resolution kind of wrap, but maybe you think I'm going to say twilight to almost
full price. Oh, wow. So you're right there on the end. Yeah, the indie kind of like,
so I can't give them to come in it, but still I was surprised. I really like this thing. It is
writer director, Trey Edward Schultz, it is called It Comes at Night. Before we end this whole thing,
got to think Ashley and everybody yet. And I'm on in the grand-a-marketing. Got to take the whole
crew we love in their arrest threats. All right, we're big fans. Go check us from out. It's got
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