Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster and starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter. It follows a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a festival that occurs once every 90 years, only to find themselves in the clutches of a Scandinavian neopagan cult. The film grossed USD 47 million and received positive reviews from critics.
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Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster and starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter. It follows a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a festival that occurs once every 90 years, only to find themselves in the clutches of a Scandinavian neopagan cult. The film was initially pitched to Aster as a straightforward slasher film set among Swedish cultists. Aster devised a screenplay using elements of the concept, but made a deteriorating relationship the central conflict after he experienced a difficult breakup. It was shot on location in Budapest in the summer and autumn of 2018 and was theatrically released in the U.S. on July 3, 2019, by A24 and in Sweden on July 10, 2019,. The film grossed USD 47 million and received positive reviews from critics, with many praising Aster’s direction and Pugh’s performance. The group flies to Sweden and arrives at the commune, where they meet Simon and Connie, an English couple from London who were invited by Pelle’s communal brother Ingemar. The next day, Dani is coerced into taking more psychedelic drugs and ends up winning a maypole dancing competition, subsequently being crowned May Queen.
As May Queen, Dani must choose either Christian or a local villager to be the ninth victim. She chooses to sacrifice Christian, who is stuffed into a disemboweled bear’s body and placed in a small wooden temple alongside the other sacrifices. The commune leaders purge an elder of its evil, while the next four victims must be offered to them by Dani. The first four victims are lured by Pelle and Ingamar while the other four are burned in a fire and celebrate by mimicking the screams and wails of those being burned in the temple. The final victim is Christian who is then turned into a blood eagle in a barn by an elder. The movie ends on a cliff, with a woman’s wail heard in the distance and an elder explaining that this is a normal thing every member does when they reach the age of 72. The scene disturbs the group, but they decide to stay long enough for Josh to finish his thesis. Later, an elder tells Connie that Simon has already left without her, and she decides to leave on her own. After the ritual, Christian comes to his senses and tries to run away, but he instead discovers Josh’s body planted in a flowerbed.
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