Exploring the intersection between girlhood and horror cinema.
🎀 Episode 5 - May Queens and Rotten Fruit, Midsommar (2019) and sisterhood in folk horror
In episode 5 of The Girl Horror Podcast, we will be exploring Ari Aster's Midsommar from 2019. This film is different to most horror films in its atmosphere, but cleverly explores the concept of women's grief and how sisterhood can support us for better or worse.
Suggested reading
Midsommar: Grief is a Lonely Woman
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Suggested watchlist
Midsommar (2019)
The focus of episode five of The Girl Horror Podcast, exploring picture perfect innocence, grief, and the need for a woman to have support during times of hardship.cess. A must watch for this episode.
The Wicker Man (1973)
A determined puritan police sergeant finds himself arriving in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl. The problem is, the local pagans claim that this girl never existed.
Men (2022)
Jessie Buckley stars in this strange and uncomfortable exploration of a young woman on a solo trip to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.
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