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.

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 ...

Try as it might to seduce you with its innocuous farm setting and Kumbaya vibes, writer-director Ari Aster’s “Midsommar” is just about the coldest — and most puzzling — film to be released so far this ...

You can’t be afraid of the dark in Midsommar, because darkness never comes. Everything that happens in writer-director Ari Aster’s cornea-searing, fantastically unnerving folk-horror reverie unfolds ...

'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 defining sound of Ari Aster’s work is the keening wail of grief. That’s how Midsommar, the follow-up to his surprise supernatural smash Hereditary, truly begins: With Dani (Pugh) balled up on her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ver the past couple of years, the horror genre has rapidly grown into something that’s not limited to never-ending jump-scares or an exploitative farce of haunted mansions with shadowy creatures ready ...

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,” ...