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I’m not usually a fan of horror movies. But every once and a while there are films like The Witch that, instead of going for straight-up horror, are just dark and tense through and through — and that I kind of love. The latest is It Comes at Night, and I’ll just point you to my colleague Bryan Bishop’s review, which I think nails the film’s creepy strengths and thematic shortcomings.
What I actually want to talk about very quickly is how It Comes at Night uses multiple aspect ratios to tell its story. To signify dream sequences (well, nightmares), it cuts out to a wider perspective that makes you feel a bit more claustrophobic, since black bars suddenly border the screen. But the film also mixes things up at one point, using those black…
