Take Shelter

Take Shelter (2011) is a psychological thriller from director Jeff Nichols — watch it online on iFILM. Michael Shannon plays Curtis, an Ohio construction worker with a steady job, a devoted wife (Jessica Chastain), and a young deaf daughter. Then the nightmares start. Yellow rain. A swarm of starlings turning on him. A wall of dark cloud rolling in low and fast.

Curtis becomes consumed. He drains the family savings to expand the backyard storm shelter, stocks it with gas masks and canned food, and starts avoiding people who appear in his dreams. His brother-in-law thinks he's cracking up — and there's reason to worry: their father developed paranoid schizophrenia at roughly the same age. The film holds one question open with brutal patience: is Curtis losing his mind, or is everyone else simply not paying attention? Stream Take Shelter (2011) on iFILM.