Tag: Hereditary
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Everything to Know About Ari Aster’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’ Starring Joaquin Phoenix
Acclaimed A24 horror maestro Ari Aster is back for his third feature film, “Beau Is Afraid.”Following the jaw-dropping successes of “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” writer-director Aster announced his upcoming collaboration with Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix in February 2021. “Beau Is Afraid” is billed as an “intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of…
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This Underrated A24 Horror Will Make You Cry (A Little)
Boasting movies such as The Lighthouse and Hereditary, A24 became a reference for horror cinema in the past decade. That’s why every time a new horror release gets an A24 seal, we are all eager to see what new nightmares the company is bringing us. Still, with 24 horror movies released in the last decade,…
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Toni Collette: Intimacy Coordinators Are ‘There as a Safety Net’ but ‘Not Always a Necessity’
As one of the most virtuosic and respected actresses in Hollywood, Toni Collette has earned the right to speak her mind. From her iconic comedic debut in “Muriel’s Wedding” to her Oscar-nominated turn in “The Sixth Sense” to her hair-raising performance in “Hereditary,” it’s clear she knows how to navigate show business. And while she…
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Hereditary Was More Connected To Midsommar Than Even Ari Aster Realized
On the surface, Ari Aster’s follow-up to his absolutely chilling debut “Hereditary” seems like it exists in stark contrast to the haunted family portrait of that first film. “Midsommar” takes its characters through a psychotropic journey in a strange place in a strange land that leads to a bizarre ritual sacrifice. “Hereditary” traps a family…
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The Terrifying Florence Pugh Scene That Still Gives Us Nightmares
In Ari Aster’s hypnotic 2019 film “Midsommar,” a group of anthropology students visits a remote Swedish commune, where a series of ritualistic horrors unfold in the harsh light of day. The group includes Florence Pugh’s Dani, a grief-numbed young woman whose family just died via a gruesome murder-suicide. Strange, dark, and even funny, “Midsommar” follows…
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‘Hatching’ Review: Eerily Atmospheric Finnish Body-Horror Cracks Open a Tween Girl’s Concealed Grudges
Motherhood is scary stuff. From “Rosemary’s Baby” through to “The Babadook” and “Hereditary,” a certain breed of horror film has taught us as much. Equally disturbing, in Hanna Bergholm’s inventive, alarmingly sunny genre outing “Hatching,” is adolescence: lurking under a protective mother’s wings, waiting to crack and come of age in a Finnish suburb’s suffocating,…
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US Box Office: ‘Jungle Cruise’ Sails To $2.7M On Thursday Night, A24’s ‘Green Knight’ At $750K
Disney is reporting $2.7M for its Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt family adventure movie Jungle Cruise. A24’s Dev Patel fantasy movie Green Knight came up strong with $750K at 2,790 theaters. The NY-based indie distrib’s previous preview highs include Ari Aster’s Midsommar (which started on a Tuesday) with $1.1M and the filmmaker’s Hereditary which did a $1.3M…
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Alex Wolff, Scrappy Star of ‘Old’ and ‘Pig,’ Thinks Everybody Needs a Bit More Self-Loathing in Their Lives
Alex Wolff, the self-described “scrappy New York actor” who made a searing impression in 2018’s “Hereditary” and now stars in “Pig” opposite Nicolas Cage and in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Old,” thinks everybody needs a little more self-loathing in their lives.“My face is not symmetrical. Why would I love myself if my face is unsymmetrical? The…
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A24 for $3 Billion? It Makes No Sense — Until You Remember Who They’re Dealing With
A24 has a scrappy vibe, edgy tastes, and is often cited as the standard bearer of a 21st century indie film studio (much to their competitors’ annoyance). Rumors of a possible sale have trailed the distributor for months, including tire kicking by Apple; in 2018, Apple and A24 made a nonexclusive “multiyear deal” for a…
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Sundance 2021: which films might break out this year?
From buzzy horrors to difficult dramas, this year’s low-key, mostly virtual festival offers a restricted yet intriguing selectionEven in any normal year, trying to predict what will and won’t land at the Sundance film festival is something of a fool’s errand. It’s a lineup filled with small, often totally unknown films, most of which don’t…