Imagine the most hellish relationship you've ever had. Add a village of creepy smiling Scandinavian folks, hallucinogenic concoctions, an exhausting dance contest, lots of flowers and a sense of ...

That deep, guttural gurgling sound that is nature’s way of something is wrong is like nails to our species’ instinctual chalkboard. It’s also practically its own musical cue in Ari Aster’s Midsommar.

It hasn’t quite been an all-sequel summer at the multiplex—some remakes have slipped in, too. Basically, the studios have been treating audiences like newborns (formula, round the clock). So when a ...

At long last, “Midsommar” asks the cinematic question we’ve all been waiting for: How, precisely, does one say “completely bonkers” in Swedish? Fans of highfalutin horror have been awaiting “Midsommar ...

Midsommar features a standout performance from Florence Pugh and an expertly assembled atmosphere of dread, even if its lacks the propulsion and all-consuming terror ...

Warning: Major Spoilers ahead! Ari Aster's latest film Midsommar is to bad relationships as Hereditary is to difficult families, though the verdant brightness of this latest movie makes the sourness ...

'Hereditary' director Ari Aster sends unwitting Americans into a strange Swedish cult for his sophomore outing 'Midsommar.' By John DeFore The horror equivalent of a destination wedding, Ari Aster’s ...

The flaws in this longer version of Ari Aster’s bucolic horror-comedy underline the strengths of the audacious original Before the arrival of Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, Ari Aster’s bucolic ...

Ari Aster is a bold new voice in psychological horror, the kind that messes ruthlessly with your head. He proved that last year with Hereditary, featuring Toni Colette in one of cinema’s most ...

Being afraid to watch horror movies might be good for your sleep, but it's not necessarily good for your social life. It's not fun when everyone around you can't stop talking about the latest buzzy ...

Youth is called the spring of life. Which is to say everything is in bloom when you’re young. But what is it to be youthful? Increasingly modern society keeps moving the goalpost of “young adulthood,” ...