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Ari Aster's Midsommar, the Scandinavian sun that rarely naps, and horrors set in blinding light
Midsommar is packed with reminders that if a film succeeds in depicting the darkness within vividly, then a sunshine-y environment can make the experience even more unnerving. Because viewers have nowhere to hide.
Midsommar movie review: Ari Aster disguises a break-up movie as folk horror in Hereditary follow-up
Where Ari Aster’s Hereditary used the American horror playbook to tell a story of trauma and grief, his follow-up Midsommar steps outside those aesthetic constraints while zeroing in on similar ideas.
Ari Aster’s Disappointment Blvd. to feature Joaquin Phoenix; film to be backed by A24
Though details about Joaquin Phoenix's Disappointment Blvd. are being kept under wraps, the plot's being described as “an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.”
Midsommar director Ari Aster says his next film will be four hour long 'nightmare comedy'
Ari Aster is also known for his horror shorts The Strange Thing About the Johnsons and Munchausen.
Midsommar director Ari Aster to produce English remake of South Korean classic Save the Green Planet
Save the Green Planet is about a disillusioned young man who captures and tortures a businessman who he believes to be part of an alien invasion.
From The Wicker Man to Midsommar: Tracing the folk horror tradition and its recent renaissance in cinema
It is impossible to talk about Midsommar without discussing its precedents, which pioneered the rich traditions and iconography of folk horror.
Midsommar director Ari Aster on finding horror in the mundane, and why he's scared of the dark
American filmmaker Ari Aster, who made Hereditary and Midsommar, was present at the Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai Film Festival for the Indian premiere of the latter.
Midsommar: A24 offers three months of free couples therapy ahead of digital release of Ari Aster's horror film
Directed by Ari Aster, Midsommar follows a couple, on the verge of a nasty breakup, who travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown’s fabled mid-summer festival.
Nicolas Cage says he wants to work with Midsommar director Ari Aster: He has that auteur panache like Brian De Palma
Nicolas Cage who has worked with celebrated directors ranging from Brian De Palma to Werner Herzog, called Aster a "real student of film".
Midsommar early reactions: Ari Aster's film is 'a psychedelic fairy tale about ridding oneself of fear and pain'
Midsommar's narrative draws from the tradition of Midsummer, Sweden's most popular folk festival.
Midsommar trailer: Ari Aster's Hereditary follow-up finds Florence Pugh trapped in a creepy Swedish cult
Midsommar's narrative draws from the tradition of Midsummer, Sweden's most popular folk festival.
Midsommar: A24 teases Ari Aster’s Hereditary follow-up, starring Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, Florence Pugh
Midsommar is expected to hit the theatres later this year.
Lady Macbeth actress Florence Pugh to play lead in Hereditary director Ari Aster's upcoming horror film
Florence Pugh's upcoming projects include Netflix's The Outlaw King, Stephen Merchant's Fighting With My Family and BBC's recent adaptation of King Lear
Hereditary: Horror film hailed as scariest in years leaves Twitterati sleepless and 'disturbed on a cellular level'
Some of Ari Aster's filmmaking peers from Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) and the Safdie brothers (Good Time) took to Twitter to express just how terrified Hereditary left them.
Hereditary, The Babadook, Don't Look Now: How horror films help us cope with grief, death and loss
Horror films not only make us psychologically engage with our deepest fears but they also help us process our repressed emotions.
Hereditary movie review: Ari Aster's esoteric film steers clear of jump scares, manipulative horror tactics
Hereditary is an arthouse middle finger to its shrill mainstream counterparts like Insidious and The Conjuring.
Hereditary writer-director Ari Aster reveals incidents from his own life have inspired the horror film
Hereditary tells the harrowing story of a family tragedy that veers into the realm of the supernatural
Hereditary review round-up: Toni Collette is 'hypnotic' in 2018's most 'unsettling, unpredictable' horror movie
Time Out described Hereditary as a “new generation’s The Exorcist” while The New Yorker said it is "far more upsetting than it is frightening and is not recommended to the readily traumatised."
Hereditary, Ari Aster horror film touted as this generation's The Exorcist, to release in India on 22 June
Hereditary tells a harrowing story of a family tragedy that veers into the realm of the supernatural — the Graham family starts to unravel following the death of their reclusive grandmother.
Hereditary: Watch the trailer of 'the horror movie that traumatised Sundance Film Festival'
Hereditary has been called the "horror movie that traumatised Sundance Film Festival 2018". It is also being touted as this generation's The Exorcist.