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It Comes at Night and the high art of the new horror

Yep, It Comes at Night is scary. But the film’s real terror is in its subtext

TO BE SCARED AT THE MOVIES IS A particular kind of pleasure, which might be why horror movies so often do well at the box office. Watching them at home is never the same, maybe because, in an audience, a glance to our right or left reminds us that we’re not the only ones alone in the dark. Together we make

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