Payton McCarty-Simas
Payton McCarty-Simas is a freelance writer, artist, and editor based in New York City. Their most recent work focuses on horror film and literature, psychedelics, and queerness.
A24’s Folk Horror Boom and Bust
By Payton McCarty-SimasFor the last few years, A24 has critically dominated the horror genre with films such as Robert Eggerss The Witch (2015) and Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018). Both directors follow-up films (Eggerss The Lighthouse and Asters Midsommar, both from 2019) concretized the studios reputation for horror films with a penchant for hyper-formalist attention to detail, broader social commentary, and references to folklore, witchcraft, psychedelia, and the supernatural.
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