Tag Archives: Folk Horror
MIDSOMMAR BUMMER
The film Hereditary was scary successful last year. Writer/director Ari Aster’s feature debut delivered an incendiary performance by Toni Collette and a tightening noose of a story that gradually strangled viewers in supernatural sights, occult symbols, real life tragedies and heavy themes about the generational traumas that can ripple though family lines. Hereditary is a [...]
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Tagged Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Folk Horror, Hereditary, Jack Reynor, Midsommar, Occult, pagan, Toni Collette, Vilhelm Bomgren
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Adios, Wicker Man
The British horror film The Wicker Man (1973) is one of my favorite movies in any genre. The flick is spooky throughout, but this story of a police officer investigating a missing child case on a remote island is also funny, artful, campy and sexy, and it features a ubiquitous soundtrack that makes this macabre [...]
