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Midsommar director Ari Aster to produce English remake of South Korean classic Save the Green Planet
• 5 years agoSave 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
Prahlad Srihari • 6 years agoIt 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
Devanshsharma • 6 years agoAmerican 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
Fp Staff • 6 years agoDirected 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
• 6 years agoNicolas 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'
Fp Staff • 6 years agoMidsommar'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
Fp Staff • 6 years agoMidsommar'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
Fp Staff • 6 years agoMidsommar is expected to hit the theatres later this year.
Hereditary, The Babadook, Don't Look Now: How horror films help us cope with grief, death and loss
Prahlad Srihari • 7 years agoHorror films not only make us psychologically engage with our deepest fears but they also help us process our repressed emotions.
Lady Macbeth actress Florence Pugh to play lead in Hereditary director Ari Aster's upcoming horror film
Fp Staff • 7 years agoFlorence 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