Hey, this thing with you becoming a journalist, I told everybody that would crash and burn. It sure looks that way. Damn it, Clark. I thought you straightened things out. I’ve known you all your life, and I know, I know that you have some potential in that dizzy head of yours. Come on, take this chance and prove you aren’t the damn idiot everyone thinks you are. ↪Clark (2022)
Well we think of life like the seasons. So you’re a child until you’re 18 and that’s spring. And then at some point we all do our Pilgrimage, which is between 18 and 36, and that’s summer. And then from, eh - 36 to 54, we’re working age, which is fall. And then finally from 54 to 72 you become a mentor.
Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, Henrik Norlén, Gunnel Fred…
In recent years I’ve noticed several new directing names emerge - names that are tied with the horror genre, but these filmmakers are reaching for something deeper than typical genre pieces. Ari Aster, Jordan Peele, Julia Ducournau, David Lowery and Robert Eggers just to name a few.
Midsommar is one of the best of these hybrid horror films. Beautifully shot, gripping, and taken to a macabre and frenzied conclusion - it’s kind of a stunning and fearless movie. It’s still content to call itself horror (almost a safety blanket), but dig a bit deeper and see hints of Haneke, Bergman and David Lynch all there.
Also I’m glad that somebody finally realized that The Haxan Cloak is an ideal artist to enlist for dark film scores.
