Trippy Little Movie

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 2019)

I saw "Midsommar", starring Florence Pugh-Fighting With My Family, The Commuter; Jack Reynor-On the Basis of Sex, Transformers:Age of Extinction; William Jackson Harper-The Good Place_tv, All Good Things and Will Poulter-The Revenant, We're the Millers.
This is a trippy little movie that is written and directed by Ari Aster, the man who directed the 2018 Hereditary. I say trippy because there are some drugs administered and lots of hallucinatory nightmares popping up. Florence and Jack are in a relationship-dating about 4 years now-but things are a little strained. Florence has just lost her parents and sister and is real depressed. William and Will are Jack's friends that are planning a trip to Sweden with a Swedish foreign exchange student they recently met and they all think that it would help Florence get over her personal problems if she tagged along. Their Swedish friend takes them to his community where they are in the process of celebrating their mid_summer festival-they do it every 90 years-and wants them to even participate in some of their pagan rituals....I mean, activities. Jack and William also want to write their college thesis on the village. They soon find out that there is more going on than they had anticipated. I guess none of them have ever seen the movie Hostel.
It's rated "R" for disturbing ritualistic violence, grisly images, drug use, language and sexual content-including both male & female nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours & 27 minutes.
I don't know if I would buy it on DVD but it would be alright, as a rental, if you are not too squeamish about bodily fluids.