Written by Taylor Baker "Ari Aster's “Eddington” arrives as a fever dream of American paranoia, where Amazon delivery trucks become harbingers of doom and COVID masks transform into tribal markings. Set within a heightened, hyperreal version of..."… Continue reading.
Tag: Ari Aster
Beau is Afraid
Written by Taylor Baker "Beau Wasserman (Joaquin Phoenix) has some issues. He lives in an apartment building downtown with questionable neighbors, and crime-riddled streets just outside his building's door where a naked older man regularly stabs..."… Continue reading.
Midsommar
Written by Michael Clawson 90/100 Style and story don’t cohere as rewardingly in Midsommar as in Aster’s debut, but his formal dexterity and ornate, hand-crafted aesthetics make for a visually distinctive and viscerally dreadful trip. In Hereditary, Toni Collette’s Annie carefully … Continue reading.
SXSW 2021 Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Written by Taylor Baker 11/100 “I think”, this preface can be found preceding dozens of assertions in Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror. It’s unfortunate that something as juicy and spanning as the occult and it’s … Continue reading.
