Dark Skies

Dark Skies (2013) is Scott Stewart's sci-fi horror you can watch online on iFILM. A quiet suburb, an ordinary household — the Barrett family — and a string of things that make no sense once the lights go out.

It starts small. Canned food stacked into neat towers on the kitchen counter. The alarm tripping with no one near it. Flocks of birds slamming into the house. Lacey (Keri Russell) and Daniel (Josh Hamilton) blame the kids, then each other, until their youngest son starts talking about visitors who come while everyone sleeps. With work gone and money tight, something is patiently testing how far this family will bend before it breaks.

It comes from the producers behind Paranormal Activity, Insidious and Sinister — the same lean, dread-heavy school of horror. Late in the film J.K. Simmons turns up as a man who knows far too much about a force that picks its targets long in advance. Stream Dark Skies (2013) online on iFILM.