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In-depth, extensive, and with a killer score, this documentary will teach you everything you need to know about folk horror.
The first reviews are in for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and folks, it looks like we have another major awards season contender on our hands. Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman lead George C. Wolfe's big screen adaptation of August Wilson's beloved play. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom transports viewers back to 1920s Chicago, where, over the course of a day, legendary jazz singer Ma Rainey (Davis) tries to get to a recording session where her band awaits her while clashing with her white managers. Meanwhile, Ma Rainey's band sits around, converses, and clashes with …
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Much like the way Leonardo DiCaprio's face looks in the above photo, I currently look this way after finding out Tenet actor Michael Caine doesn't know what anything about plot of Tenet. Finally, after multiple collaborations with Christopher Nolan, it sounds like the director has finally managed to thrust Caine into the dark with the rest of us. Speaking with The Hindu (and further reported on by Indiewire) recently, Caine opened up about a great many aspects of his professional career including his work on Nolan's past films. The actor's partnership with Nolan began with 2005'…
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Folk horror is having a bit of a resurgence at the moment. Last year brought the Netflix thriller Apostle, Ari Aster returned with a new take on trauma in this summer's Midsommar, and the next buzzy folk horror you should put on your list is about to land in theaters. RLJE Films and Shudder are bringing the festival hit Gwen to theaters, VOD, and digital next month, ahead of the film's release on the Shudder streaming service. Written and directed by William McGregor (Misfits), Gwen follows a young girl in 19th Century Wales during a moment of crisis. …
Folk Horror, as a genre, is one which encompasses a wide span of storytelling conventions. With his second theatrical release, Ari Aster aimed to not only immerse himself in the world of Folk Horror but to offer something entirely new. Midsommar has done exactly that. It has all the trappings of many of the best films that the genre has to offer, as well as new visual and thematic additions that could only come from a mind like Aster.
A little-seen subgenre, "folk horror" has English roots. Emerging in the country in the 1950s and reaching its apex in the 70s, the subgenre seems out of step with our current age, but Ari Aster saw fit to return to it with his sophomore shocker, Midsommar, which builds on a rich tradition of films about modern individuals contending with pagan cults and rituals. Though some recent works, like Robert Eggaers' The Witch, also draw from this tradition, witch cinema is really its own subgenre, and films that are so firmly set in the folk horror mold are rare. Below are ten folk horror films past and present to check out.
Hereditary writer/director Ari Aster is back to torment audiences with another horrifying head trip through the rabbit hole of grief with Midsommar; a vibrant, perverse sophomore feature that reunites the filmmaker with A24. But if Midsommar marks a return to familiar creative inspirations for Aster, the end result is a stylistic counterpoint, leaving behind the dark confines of a household trapped in hell in favor of a sprawling, sunny fever dream that adorns its terrors in floral arrangements and summery cheer. The end result is a surreal and surprisingly funny folk horror fairy tale that never quite taps into …