For this year’s 31 Nights of Horror Challenge, the Day 29 prompt is Folk Horror. We watched Midsommar on Max.

Storyline

Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, Christian invites a grieving Dani to join him and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in the North European land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing.

Our Thoughts on Midsommar (2019)

I personally thought it was quite interesting and i like how it keeps getting weirder and weirder but i do understand why some people wouldn’t like it and would think it’s boring, certainly if you’re more into violent and gory films. If you’re more of a psychological horror ( it’s not really a horror it’s quite hard to put a word to it really) sort of person you might like it. It can be a bit slow and lose people which i get but i think the scenery in it and the gradual rise in weirdness makes up for it. I’m not sure i would recommend it, but i would say if you’re into that stuff go for it. It is very long though which is a downside, and it’s not as though it’s very entertaining to make up for the length.

6 out of 10

Trivia

When the film was released in Sweden, rather than eliciting fear in the audience, many people laughed. Many Swedish critics praised the film as an excellent black comedy. Most of the Swedish dialogue spoken by the Hårga natives is deliberately not subtitled, in order to create the sense of isolation for the audience and especially for the foreign visitors.