Trey Edward Shults of It Comes at Nightmade his directorial debut with Krisha back in 2015 and, believe it or not, the film stars his actual real-life aunt Krisha Fairchild.
The drama finds Krisha at her sister’s house for a tumultuous Thanksgiving after being estranged from her family for many years. Completely overtaken by anxiety in the situation, Krisha, the black sheep of her family, turns to alcohol and pills as everything around her starts to unravel. “Krisha is a combination of addicts and different family members,” Shults has said. "[It is] very much inspired by the relationship I had with my biological dad, who passed away a year ago from pancreatic cancer. Before he passed, I hadn’t seen him for five-plus years because of his issues with alcoholism and addiction.”