It’s fair to say that the two most prickly, subjective genres in filmmaking (or in storytelling in general) are comedy and horror. This is for obvious reasons that trace back to each individual person ...

We had just one movie grabbing attention over the holiday weekend, Spider-Man: Far From Home. which had Spidey and his high school friends taking on a European summer excursion that turns pretty ...

"Midsommar" is an upsetting movie, and I mean that word in pretty much every way you can think of. Writer/director Ari Aster's second horror feature, after "Hereditary," upsets because of the ...

The setting of “Midsommar,” a luxuriant deep-tissue freakout from writer-director Ari Aster, is a picturesque commune in Hälsingland, Sweden, that is holding a nine-day celebration in observation of ...

Think of your worst romantic relationship, the one that churned you up inside and left you a sobbing mess for months. This is the territory that Aster mines in his latest work. Florence Pugh plays ...

Fun in the sun? Not so much. Ari Aster is back with “Midsommar,” a little over a year after his lauded feature directorial debut “Hereditary” came out last June. “Midsommar,” released on July 5, has ...

Midsommar might be the horror hit of the summer, but for some viewers, the first 15 minutes have proved unsettling for all the wrong reasons – thanks to the film’s graphic depiction of a character ...

In Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” the devil is not an ugly monster hiding in the shadows—he is in the daylight, dressed in a white robe and a crown of flowers. The film takes place at a traditional festival ...

Midsommar (pronounced “midsummer”) is a cool, coy, and self-conscious movie, less an overt horror work than a young man’s art film with some vivid gore splashed throughout it. The premise finds its ...

Editor’snote: The views and opinions expressed in this review are solely those of Marlon Wallace and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of WBOC. Ari Aster is a filmmaker who made a name ...

After sneaking back into theatres for an Extended Director's Cut last month, that version of Midsommar will see a widespread home video release--sort of. It seems Midsommar's extended version is ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Hereditary filmmaker Ari Aster followed up one ...