So apparently people who bought tickets to a screening of Midsommar Directors Cut got instead treated to a screening of Beau is Afraid.
lol shut up, Pete Hammond. Emotional drama in horror doesn’t negate the horror.Aster is the brilliant artist responsible for, arguably, genuine horror masterpieces with his first two features, 2018’s Hereditary and 2019’s Midsommar. The latter is one I still am processing, a fantasia of cult weirdness set at a summertime festival in rural Sweden that lives in my head and won’t leave. Although both have elements that can be labeled horror, the nightmarish human drama that is at their core makes trying to pinpoint them as genre exercises of any stripe a folly.