ari aster
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How Nicolas Cage’s Dream Scenario Came to Life
Who among us hasn’t dreamed about Nicolas Cage? What might it be like to hang out with the Oscar winner, to watch him work or see how he chooses his incredible array of movies? From The Rock, National Treasure, and Renfield, to Adaptation, Wild at Heart, and Mandy, Cage is one of those actors whose…
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20 Horror Directorial Debuts That Became Genre Classics
Throughout film history, horror has been a go-to genre for a lot of first-time directors. In horror, you can make a huge impression with a long-lasting career. Not every debut horror film creates a legend, of course, but the 20 on this list sure did.
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Midsommar’s Ari Aster Talks Embracing The Grotesque While Subverting Audience Expectations
Folk horror meets millennial anguish in writer-director Ari Aster’s unsettling Midsommar, a movie that proves his occult family dollhouse drama Hereditary was no fluke. Like his 2018 feature debut, Midsommar is a movie best experienced as unspoiled as possible, so we didn’t get into any plot specifics in our recent interview with Aster. But there…
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Midsommar Looks Like What Would Have Happened If Fyre Festival Was Run By Swedish Cultists
So you know, like, slightly less scuzzy businessmen and tents, slightly more…animal sacrifice?