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MIDSOMMAR 18

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OUT 28 OCTOBER DVD, BD, Digital HD

EXTRAS Featurette, Director’s Cut (BD)

leading light

All hail Ari Aster’s glorious (sunshine) masterpiece…

Ari Aster’s follow-up to shattering 2018 debut is not as scary, leaving weekend multiplex crowds disappointed. But its vaulting ambition, scale, pace, tone and ability to clog sun-soaked images with is one of the great horror films of the decade. And, like , Aster’s sophomore film is concerned with grief and pagan rituals.

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