Dawn of the new pagans: ‘Everybody’s welcome – as long as you keep your clothes on!’
From the Green Man on King Charles’s coronation invitation to celebrations selling out across the UK, more and more people identify as pagan, or at least pagan-curious. What lies behind its growing appeal?
October 2022
‘I squeamishly refuse to rewatch’: Guardian writers on their scariest movie endings
From the final moments of Don’t Look Now to Midsommar to Men, critics pick the endnotes that caused the biggest nightmares
August 2022
I called it ‘post-horror’ – and now I’ve created a monster
When I coined the term ‘post-horror’, gore fans showered me with abuse. Now it has been adopted by a festival celebrating the films that pushed the boundaries of cinematic terror
April 2020
Midsommar May Queen costume among movie props on sale in coronavirus auction
Necklace from Uncut Gems and wooden mermaid from The Lighthouse also on sale as distributors A24 put on fundraiser
December 2019
Crying! Pole-Dancing! Heroin! The best movie moments of 2019
From an awkward scene with a knife to an A-lister’s comeback with the sounds of Fiona Apple, Guardian writers pick their favourite big screen bits of the year
Top US films 2019
The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: the full list
Our pick of the top films released in the US this year brings a shocking class war, tearjerking breakups, war, glamour, horror and everything in between. Tell us your favourites too
Top UK films 2019
The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: the full list
Our pick of the year’s top movies released in the UK reveals the end of an era, painful breakups, festive families, horrors both real and imagined, and heroes of many kinds
October 2019
Battle of the sexes: why this year's Oscars will be a gender war
Devils and debauchery: why we love to be scared by folk horror
September 2019
Midsommar: Director’s Cut review – extended folk-horror tale is a survivor
The flaws in this longer version of Ari Aster’s bucolic horror-comedy underline the strengths of the audacious original
August 2019
So extra: how the director's cut became Hollywood's best ruse to milk fans dry
They used to come out years after the original – and be quite different. Now films such as Avengers: Endgame are released in ‘new’ versions weeks after the original – and fans are lapping them up
July 2019
Myth-busting Midsommar: why today's shockers need to do more with folk horror
Steve Rose on film
Fear-good hit of the summer: how did horror become a year-long box office slayer?
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
From Midsommar to martial arts: how movie cults got real
Midsommar's ableism resurrects the dark history of eugenics-inspired horror
Emma Madden
Now you've seen it
Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers
Midsommar review – dread-free horror
Modern Toss
Modern Toss
William Jackson Harper on 2019's scariest film: 'Midsommar's a microcosm for humanity'
