This story contains full SPOILERS for Midsommar! Ari Aster's movie Midsommar, the follow-up to his 2018 critical hit Hereditary, is partly an open homage to folk horror films (à la The Wicker Man), ...

Content warning: This column includes descriptions of mental illness and suicide and includes a description of a death by suicide in the film “Midsommar.” Historically, the genre of horror films has ...

Ari Aster knows that he’s got a peculiar hang-up about head trauma. One of the standout moments of the director’s breakthrough film, Hereditary, was the short, sharp shock of seeing a young girl’s ...

Midsommar is a weird movie with a very weird ending. Anyone who saw Hereditary probably expected something trippy and unique from director Ari Aster’s second feature film, but you may still need some ...