- Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/tag/ari-aster/ Wed, 17 May 2023 15:29:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 Beau Is Afraid, Mother Is Guilty: Ari Aster’s Maternal-Horror Nightmare https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/beau-is-afraid-mother-is-guilty-ari-asters-maternal-horror-nightmare/ Wed, 17 May 2023 12:28:08 +0000 https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=11100 Beau Is Afraid seems like something other than a horror movie. It’s nightmare-ish at times but simultaneously absurd and…

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]]> You’re Pissing on My People: Midsommar and the Revenge of the Research Subject https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/youre-pissing-on-my-people-midsommar-and-the-revenge-of-the-research-subject/ Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:11:30 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=10364 From The Body Snatcher (1945) to Black Christmas (1974, 2019), from Suspiria (1977, 2018) to The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015),…

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]]> Folk Horror at Home and Abroad in Ari Aster’s Midsommar https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/folk-horror-at-home-and-abroad-in-ari-asters-midsommar/ https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/folk-horror-at-home-and-abroad-in-ari-asters-midsommar/#comments Sat, 05 Jun 2021 12:14:53 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=9543 Upon its release, Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) was hailed as a new Folk Horror masterpiece. Like so many other…

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]]> https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/folk-horror-at-home-and-abroad-in-ari-asters-midsommar/feed/ 2 So, We’re Just Going to Ignore the Sunlight Then? Aesthetic Whiteness in Midsommar https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/so-were-just-going-to-ignore-the-sunlight-then-aesthetic-whiteness-in-midsommar/ Sat, 30 May 2020 20:37:15 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=7689 When we look at the history of horror and the gothic, we see that the aesthetic investment in establishing…

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]]> Academia in Midsommar and Black Christmas https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-real-horror-in-2019-was-higher-ed-academia-in-midsommar-and-black-christmas/ Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:25:33 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=6869 In 2019, horror went back to school in a major way, with a couple of popularly-released films taking on…

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