What would you do if you have a beautiful spouse, young girl, a well paying blue-collar job with great insurance and you started having recurring lucid nightmares about an apocalyptic thunderstorm that are so vivid the injuries sustained in the dream hurt for days after you woke up? These nightmares warn you of impeding doom. That doom is a disease that will infect everyone and everything you love and will cause them to turn into murdering animals. On top of that your family has a history a severe mental illness.

This is what happens to Curtis (played by the always reliable Michael Shannon). First he tries to keep the nightmares a secret, but as the movie progresses he starts to see the visions in his nightmares when he’s awake and it becomes more difficult to hide. Since the nightmares are not going away he tries to seek help whether by seeking free counseling, reading books on mental illness and even seeing his mother who has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. At the same he’s spending more time building out the tornado shelter in the backyard because he believes when the storm does come he will be able to protect his family.

If you’re looking for a psychological drama/horror then you will not be disappointed. Everything unfolds naturally and you, the audience, do not know if Curtis is becoming schizophrenic or near the end of the film where both Curtis and Samantha (played wonderfully by Jessica Chastain), his wife, both explode in their own way.

Grade: 65-70 (on the 20-80 scouting scale)