We can’t wait for Ari Aster (Hereditary) to mess us up real good with this year’s Midsommar, being released by A24 on July 3rd. If Hereditary was any indication at all, Aster’s follow-up is sure to be one of the most talked about horror films of the year; and on that note, Aster and Jordan Peele talk Midsommar inside the pages of the new issue of Fangoria!
EW provides an exclusive sneak peek at that issue today, along with the cover art that puts Midsommar front and center. They also share some quotes from inside the pages.
“There are some obvious comps out there, but this movie is just so unique,” Peele says to Aster during the Fangoria conversation. “This hasn’t existed yet, and anything after Midsommar is going to have to contend with it. I mean, this usurps The Wicker Man as the most iconic pagan movie to be referenced.”
Peele continues, “It plays a weird sleight of hand, where it transcends the horror of itself. It is an ascension of horror. I didn’t feel victimized; I felt like I was being put up on this pedestal and honored through the eyes of the protagonist. It’s a very unique feeling for a film to conjure because after it ended, I found myself looking back at the final act like, ‘Holy shit.’ That was some of the most atrociously disturbing imagery I’ve ever seen on film, and yet I experienced it with this open-mouthed, wild-eyed gape.”
Aster’s new film stars Jack Reynor, Will Poulter and Florence Pugh with Vilhem Blomgren, William Jackson Harper, Ellora Torchia and Archie Madekwe.
“Pugh and Reynor will play a couple that travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.”
