Midsommar Movie Review: Everything’s okay in the middle of summer

Major spoilers below. All hail the May Queen. In Ari Aster’s sophomore follow-up to last year’s brilliant Hereditary, the horror moves from the claustrophobic space of personal grief and madness to the brightly lit, never ending smiles of well-intentioned Swedish…

The ‘Midsommar’ Trailer is A Gorgeous and Radiant Descent into Madness

A24’s summer lineup is looking to be stacked beyond belief. Ari Aster’s follow-up to Hereditary, Midsommar, is easily one of the most anticipated horror films of the year and it has just received its first official trailer. Aster described the…

The’Midsommar’ trailer shows that darkness can hide in the brightest places

Indie powerhouse studio A24 looks like it will continue its streak of bringing us unsettling and unnerving horror films with it’s newest offering, Midsommar. From the writer/director of last year’s incredible Hereditary, Ari Aster returns with a familiar tone, but…

‘Light from Light’ Review: Marin Ireland and Jim Gaffigan Search For Supernatural Meaning | Sundance 2019

We’re all either believers or skeptics when it comes to the paranormal, but that doesn’t mean we know which of the two we really are. This is the bottom line of Light from Light, an “anti-horror” drama from director Paul Harrill…

TYF’s 20 Best Films of 2018

Every year when we get to this point there’s a mixture of dread and excitement concerning the compiling of this list [and I’m sure my fellow editors would agree]. On the one hand, it’s a chance to celebrate the years…

The Best Films of 2018 So Far

Each year it seems that someone will make the decidedly naive comment about how “it’s been a bad year for films” and every year countless others will have their “well, actually’s” on standby along with a tidy list of titles…

Hereditary Movie Review: Ari Aster Has Created Something Terrifyingly Dreadful and Magnificent

Full disclosure — when it comes to horror, you’ll typically find me hiding behind my hands, but nothing has shaken me more than Ari Aster’s Hereditary. At just over two hours, it’s an unrelenting, dread-inducing portrait of a family descending…