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Take Shelter

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Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. From TMDB

107 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 18, 2026 · last updated Oct 21, 2026 · How this works

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    Happy 76th Birthday to the highly underrated Kathy Baker, Emmy-winning theater, TV, and film actress, acclaimed for her roles in THE RIGHT STUFF, STREET SMART, CLEAN AND SOBER, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, TAKE SHELTER, LAST CHANCE HARVEY, PICKET FENCES, BOSTON PUBLIC, MEDIUM, THE RANCH, and more.

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  • Festival Reviews .org @festivalreviews.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    Cinematography Adam Stone (Bikeriders, Take Shelter, Midnight Special) festivalreviews.org/2025/06/27/c... I’d love to work on a film where the camera is constantly on the move and has the ability to effortlessly traverse every spatial plane. #cinematography #dp #matthewtoffolo

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  • Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2025

    A movie for anyone who saw Take Shelter and said "Michael Shannon is way chilled out, here. He's like a normal type of guy, and watching this is making me too relaxed."

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  • Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    Jessica Chastain - 📽️ Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011) In her breakthrough year of films, Chastain gave one of her best performances to date opposite Michael Shannon. While he is plagued by apocalyptic visions and mental illness, Chastain as his wife is the expressive, pained audience character.

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  • Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    This week’s Filmspotting features a talk between me and Adam Kempenaar after the Filmspotting Fest screening of one of my favorite films, Take Shelter. It’s maybe the most personal and confessional piece of film criticism of my entire life. Enjoy!

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  • Brian Holder @brianholderd.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2025

    120/365 a year’s worth of movies I love Take Shelter (2011). Michael walks the thin line between having premonitions and madness, and you keep wondering which long after the movie ends . #FilmSky (Caught up)

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  • TattooedHorrorGranny @tattooedgranny.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    611) Take Shelter (2011) #NowWatching on @primevideo.bsky.social #2026FirstTimeWatch 552 #FilmSky #DramaSky #TakeShelter

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  • 🪾⛈️🪾 @firstnamebob.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2025

    #MayMovieChallenge 5/7 - tornado Take Shelter (2011) Director: Jeff Nichols

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  • Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2026

    Great first film! Gonna go to the lobby to get myself a snack, and see you folks in about 10 for Take Shelter! . #FrightClub #TakeShelter

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  • Dana @thatdana.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    Ten+ non horror movies to get to know me 🤓 Take Shelter The Lego Movie Quills The Dark Knight Rear Window Se7en Hot Fuzz American History X Tombstone The Shawshank Redemption The Big Lebowski Toy Story Requiem for a Dream

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    Take Shelter [85] is a Metacritic Must-See (now on Hulu) www.metacritic.com/movie/take-s... #11pmspecial "Taut, unsettling, haunting and powerful." - Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

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  • The Burgermeister Meisterburger 🌮 @burgy.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2025

    #MayMovieChallenge #MovieChallenge Day 7; Tornado in a movie Take Shelter (2011)

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  • Kevin Schultz @kevinschultzfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    I've caught every Jeff Nichols film in theaters since 'Take Shelter'. Midnight Special, to this day, is the one that I never find another person who has seen it. Absolutely stunning in the theater though.

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  • Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2025

    Ben Nichols, lead singer of Lucero (one of my favorite bands). His brother is filmmaker, Jeff Nichols, and this song was featured in his brother's great movie, Take Shelter #music #musicsky #NowPlaying youtu.be/cbPtQZaZZlQ?...

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  • Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2024

    Movie years project Year 2011 (64/122) Now Watching 📽️ #2/8 Take Shelter dir. Jeff Nichols rec'd by @innocence.com, @cinematt.bsky.social

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  • Kane @demikane.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    Best movies of August 2026: -Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma -Take Shelter -Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans -Righting Wrongs

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  • RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    rewatching TAKE SHELTER. I love this film, esp. how it intimately & subversively frames bunker mentality thru the lens of a breakdown spiral, yet culminates in one of the most moving scenes of love & support I've ever seen on film. haunting score, too. a little masterpiece, imo #FilmSky 📽️

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  • Schneebs @schneebs.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    Jeff Nichols is my favorite filmmaker of this generation full stop. MUD made me bawl. TAKE SHELTER is th scariest movie I’ve ever seen (SINISTER a close second!). MIDNIGHT SPECIAL is a movie I never thought I’d see again. The thoughtful, hopeful haunting sci-fi film about how much better we CAN be.

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  • cowboyVT (hiatus) @acowboybythesea.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    and if I said Take Shelter was a good film that highlight his capabilities ...

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  • Disorderly Borderline 🇨🇦 @disorderlybrdrline.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2026

    I just realised why that sounds so familiar to me. "Take Shelter" is a 2011 movie starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. This Is Where We Are. youtu.be/yj7dgBib_UM?...

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  • Bryan @bryanpedersen.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2025

    It's so great, not knowing. Reminds me of that great Jeff Nichols movie, Take Shelter #sundayscares

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  • Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2025

    i don't think it's common knowledge that in 2006 william friedkin made a gnarly upsetting film about paranoid psychosis of the Morgellons variety (‘Bug’). environmental horror on par with ‘Take Shelter’ & Todd Haynes’s ‘Safe’. hard to recommend to anyone, very disgusting & filthy. nicely done

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  • A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2025

    Top 10 movies that I saw for the 1st time in 2021 are: Ordet Alien Modern Times Man With A Movie Camera Little Women (2020) West Side Story (2021) Contempt First Cow Take Shelter Luca In roughly that order.

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  • Robin Hitchcock @hitchdied.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    I've never actually seen the film Take Shelter but I do think about it every time my phone blows up with "weather is about to kill you"

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  • Kelly @kellyb.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2025

    He and Michael Shannon in "Take Shelter" are electric. It's a helluva film.

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  • Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    Favorite songs: Lucero - Can't You Hear Them Howl I've ben a fan ever since I heard one of the lead singer's songs in the movie Take Shelter. I saw them at a small venue in town last year and they put on an excellent show. #musicsky #music #nowplaying #nowlistening youtu.be/y4d02nNX8_M?...

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  • Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    Watch Take Shelter The movie is a WOW

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  • Conway Skeety @ar-kansas.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    I watch Take Shelter every few years and it gets scarier each time somehow. My favorite Jeff Nichols film and favorite Michael Shannon performance. #filmsky

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  • Jan @janhopis.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    Oh yeah I liked Berberian Sound Studio, Toby Jones doing a "one for me" film between the absolute shit is always excellent. Take Shelter I would say as well in this genre.

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  • Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    Favorite songs/artists Ben Nichols - Shelter Heard this song during the end credits of the movie Take Shelter. Nichols is the lead singer of Lucero and the brother of filmmaker, Jeff Nichols. #musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic youtu.be/cbPtQZaZZlQ?...

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  • Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    Favorite songs/artists Lucero - Can't You Hear Them Howl Discovered this band while watching the Jeff Nichols movie Take Shelter. His brother, Ben Nichols, had a haunting song during the end credits. #musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic youtu.be/ke_V0XJIgLE?...

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  • Carrie McDonough @carrieamcdphd.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

    PS Take Shelter remains an excellent film

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  • Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2025

    Then you might also like this one on Take Shelter that explores the extractivist theme (as well as the housing crisis and climate unconscious) in the film. doi.org/10.16995/int...

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  • Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.comBluesky · Mar 12, 2025

    Realizing now what I missed by not seeing TAKE SHELTER (a movie I also adore) in a theater.

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  • Hennie Kriel @officially-hennie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2025

    24/01/2011: Psychological thriller ‘Take Shelter’, directed by Jeff Nichols, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Rotten Tomatoes score: 92% Metacritic score: 85/100 #FilmSky #TodayAtTheMovies

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  • Bronte @bronte-horror.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    Just finished watching Take Shelter. Wow! Slow burn, but it really pulls it off in the end. This movie is a great look into mental illness and two people surviving through it together as a family. I really liked it and recommend you give it a shot #horrorsky

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  • ReneeToZ @reneetoz.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2024

    Now watching "Take Shelter" from 2011. The film and performances are quietly engaging and increasingly tense. I never hear anyone talk about this one. #FilmSky

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  • 🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2024

    Catching up with a 2012 Jeff Nichols film I missed in advance of The Bikeriders with Jodie Comer and Austin Butler and, of course, it wouldn't be the quintessential Nichols film without a part for Michael Shannon (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Midnight Special, Loving). Releases 6/21 in Seattle.

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  • Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2023

    Have you seen 'Take Shelter'? I haven't seen the WN film, but you've got me interested for the first time.

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  • Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2023

    Katarzyna Paszkiewicz sees the ecotrauma in a 2011 apocalyptic fairy tale, where "there's a storm comin' like nothing you've ever seen." Read her new "Facing the End of the World: Take Shelter as Horror Ecocinema" from J Film & Video @illinoispress.bsky.social. #horror doi.org/10.5406/1934...

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  • bleary @bleary.off-the-records.comBluesky · Aug 24, 2026

    Just watched Take Shelter a couple of weeks ago. Terrific film.

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  • AbstractOne @abstractone.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Take Shelter is hard movie to find but such a great psychological thriller.

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  • Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2025

    Take Shelter (2011) My pick for the best movie of the 21st century thus far. It has only gotten eerier and most prescient since 2016. Has one of the best finales I've ever seen, criminally underwatched. Taught it this semester as well, students really dug it.

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  • Romeo Echo @romeoecho.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    couldn't resist, had to look it up... Michael Shannon in Take Shelter. Good movie!

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  • Benjamin Louche @sofuckinsuave.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2025

    Sunday night in the Louche/Thorne household is MYSTERY MOVIE* night! TONIGHT: Take Shelter (Prime) * a film we've already seen picked at random

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  • Bratansov @bratansov.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    Aug 3 2023: Take Shelter (2011) showcases the acting prowess of Michael Shannon (& co). The film reflects on schizophrenia with striking photography, very tense narrative and a cathartic climax that is, sadly, kind of ruined by the epilogue. Still, perfect for movie night. 9/10 #movieReview

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  • Brandon @misterbinky.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

    You know what movie reminds me of it, for all of these right reasons? Take Shelter

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  • Matt Smith @mabrasm.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2025

    Take Shelter is a great movie with a similar premise.

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  • Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2025

    Red State, Take Shelter... this could be a good film festival tbh

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  • harry’s son @artfuld0dger.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2025

    i am by no means a cinephile, but I will automatically watch any movie with Michael Shannon. always phenomenal imo. going to have to watch Take Shelter, since I didn’t realize his greatness until a few years later.

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  • Alex Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    I love Take Shelter. Great film. Unbelievable performance. Too close to home these days though.

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  • Stfergs @stfergs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    Take Shelter! What a phenomenal film. And not one that immediately jumps to mind for me, but I’m so glad you included it here.

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  • Badwebis @badwebis.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2025

    Take Shelter such a good movie people need to see it

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  • Jody Collins @jodycollins.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2025

    "share an intense movie performance" Michael Shannon in Take Shelter

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  • Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2025

    Take Shelter ruined my mood for a good five weeks after I saw it. Phenomenal film, with an atmosphere and outlook and ability to join up so many dots between disparate paranoias that was *so* far ahead of the general consensus of the time. I’ll never watch it again.

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  • ActuallyItsAndy @actuallyitsandy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2025

    Whoever suggested the movie “Take Shelter” thank you. It was thought provoking and will be something I’ll think about for a while.

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  • Mike Moses @mikemosesok.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2024

    Reminds me of the ending scene in that movie: “Take Shelter”. Good movie.

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  • Alec @a13czander.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Take Shelter is such a damn good movie holy shit (he says, once again)

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  • Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2024

    Reminder that a brand new issue of @intransition.bsky.social has dropped at our new home - we’ve got a packed issue with a reflection by Laura Mulvey, a voice over commentary by Chris Keathley, and works on Deadwood, Take Shelter, The Rehearsal, music videos, and space in silent film!

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  • Ghost of 4 @[email protected]Mastodon · Dec 20, 2023

    "All the strange things they come and go as early warnings" — Peter Gabriel https://web.archive.org/web/20110520022421/https://thefilmstage.com/2011/01/25/sundance-review-take-shelter/ TAKE SHELTER (2011) remains one of my favorite films. In the thick of my delusions and paranoia I kept identifying with Shannon's character (and identifying my hubby with Chastain's who had to watch in fear and confusion as events unfold for her husband). Let me lighten that heavy endorsement: I think TAKE…

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