Like most of the horror world, I liked HEREDITARY, the Ari Aster feature that featured a meditation on family and loss with some cult shenanigans injected in for good measure. I wouldn’t say I am dying to watch it again, but I was certainly intrigued when Midsommar [Blu-ray], his next film, was announced. I didn’t [...]

A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. Ari Aster, the writer director of the 2018 horror masterpiece HEREDITARY returns with the fascinating MidSommar with mostly effective results. [...]

When Ari Aster released last year's Hereditary on an unsuspecting public he took the horror world by storm. Polarizing as it was, the Toni Collette vehicle raised the bar for high concept horror and changed the game so to speak. With the anticipation of his next horror opus Midsommar, Aster is building anticipation by giving [...]