I was not impressed with Hereditary, and though there was lots of buzz about Midsommar when it came out, I thought my feelings would be the same. Perhaps it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, but I was right. Midsommar follows grieving Dani (Florence Pugh) as she tags along on her boyfriend's research trip to Sweden, where the remote society is actually a sinister cult. Its similar to Hereditary in that the film relies on over the top gore, with the camera lingering on bloody sc

Midsommar begins with a cold open on a murder-suicide. This is an Ari Aster film, after all, and therefore has to be as chock-full of...

Here’s an unpopular opinion – I feel Hereditary(2018) relied on being strange and disturbing and got too much praise for it. I can’ t say much the premise of this film, because it kind of spoils everything. The best I can do is that a family find out some weird truths about their grandmother after her passing. And that’s part of the problem. Hereditary feels like it relies on shock tactics in order to stand out from the crowd. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know the event that was