Midsommar sounds very promising.
and Jack Reynor as a couple on the brink of a breakup after a family tragedy, the film follows those two and a group of friends as they travel to rural Sweden for an annual Midsommar festival. Chaos ensues, of course, and the festival spins into a culty pagan ritual.
Of course Aster and A24, the distribution company attached to the film, have been keeping the details of the plot so tight that even uncovering what genre the movie falls under seemed like an impossible task when the first trailer dropped, but now it appears thatis a horror film, a romantic tragedy, and a comedy all rolled into one, according to early comments made by the director and reviews from across the web.
insists that it might not give viewers a fright "in the traditional sense" but praises Aster for a refreshing take on the folk-horror genre, and calls it a "smoother ride" thanand it currently sits with a 100 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Other filmmakers have joined the chorus of glowing praise for Aster's sophomore film, like Leslye Headland, who"an American answer to Von Trier or Haneke" and plans to list it as one of her favorite films of the year. Earlier this month, Jordan Peele—another horror-cinema auteur who recently stuck the landing for his own sophomore film—The Wicker ManHereditary
is subjective, but the scariest part of the whole thing might just be that the scenes are bathed in bright light the entire time the protagonists are in Sweden. Credit must be given where it's due when it comes to flipping a typical horror film trope on its head., the answer is, well, some of it. There is an actual Midsommar festival that takes place in Sweden every June, but it doesn't involve "disturbing" bloody rituals like what is shown in the film.
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