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Jul. 3rd, 2019 10:07 pmSo as previously mentioned, movie buddy really wants to see Midsommar which is director Ari Aster's followup to "Hereditary", considered the best horror flick of 2018. Now, this is being considered the best horror flick of 2019.
People have compared it to Wicker Man, but the description reminds me a bit of Harvest Home by Tom Tyrone, later made into The Dark Secrets of Harvest Home starring Betty Davis, Rene Auborgonoulis (ODO from DS9), Rosanna Arquette, Dan Ackyrode, John Calvin, Joanna Mills, and the voice of Donald Pleasance.
I found Harvest Home on youtube. The book was creepy psychological horror, reminiscent of the Stepford Wives and Get Out. The movie isn't quite as good. It's about a couple with a daughter, who are struggling and decide to retreat to the country, Harvest Home, and slowly find themselves embroiled in secretive pagan cult. The husband decides to write a book about it -- and discovers far more than he bargained for.
HERE's PART II.
Midsommer from the reviews has been compared to Get Out, and various other films.
I've been reading the reviews...and am curious (because hello, had a cultural anthropology minor), but ...I can't tell if I can watch the thing without it keeping me up at night and/or grossing me out on a certain level. It appears to end with the heroine in pretty much the same place as the hero of Harvest Home...which no, it's not what you think. Harvest Home isn't Wicker Man, it's much creepier and a lot better.
Harvest Home according to my mother was one of my grandfather's favorite novels. My father's father loved horror films, particularly science-fiction horror films. He used to take my grandmother to the Saturday Maintainee to watch, and he had quite the collection of horror novels, including a book about sci-fi horror movies -- that I remember flipping through at the age of ten.
I'm going to grill Chidi on Monday, he said his friends who'd invited him to see it, were psyched to see the film. And he and I get scared by the same things.
People have compared it to Wicker Man, but the description reminds me a bit of Harvest Home by Tom Tyrone, later made into The Dark Secrets of Harvest Home starring Betty Davis, Rene Auborgonoulis (ODO from DS9), Rosanna Arquette, Dan Ackyrode, John Calvin, Joanna Mills, and the voice of Donald Pleasance.
I found Harvest Home on youtube. The book was creepy psychological horror, reminiscent of the Stepford Wives and Get Out. The movie isn't quite as good. It's about a couple with a daughter, who are struggling and decide to retreat to the country, Harvest Home, and slowly find themselves embroiled in secretive pagan cult. The husband decides to write a book about it -- and discovers far more than he bargained for.
HERE's PART II.
Midsommer from the reviews has been compared to Get Out, and various other films.
I've been reading the reviews...and am curious (because hello, had a cultural anthropology minor), but ...I can't tell if I can watch the thing without it keeping me up at night and/or grossing me out on a certain level. It appears to end with the heroine in pretty much the same place as the hero of Harvest Home...which no, it's not what you think. Harvest Home isn't Wicker Man, it's much creepier and a lot better.
Harvest Home according to my mother was one of my grandfather's favorite novels. My father's father loved horror films, particularly science-fiction horror films. He used to take my grandmother to the Saturday Maintainee to watch, and he had quite the collection of horror novels, including a book about sci-fi horror movies -- that I remember flipping through at the age of ten.
I'm going to grill Chidi on Monday, he said his friends who'd invited him to see it, were psyched to see the film. And he and I get scared by the same things.