MIDSOMMAR has many strings to its exotica-exploiting, commune-disparaging bow

Rating: 7/10 (24 August 2019)

Merely within an one-year span, US breakout horror practitioner Ari Aster has already knocked off his sophomore feature after the excellently gothic familial gore HEREDITARY (2018), MIDSOMMAR spirts a posse of American college students away to a Swedish commune called Hårga in Hälsingland, under the name of partaking the titular celebration which occurs once every ninety years. Among them, Dani (Pugh) is ailed by a recent horrendous bereavement (presented by its chilling prologue), which also aggravates her already strained relationship with post-graduate boyfriend Christian (a hung Reynor baring it all becomes the hype).
The outsiders' inchoate curiosity and amazement (typically and predominantly conduced by psychedelic enhancement from endemic drugs or libations) of the ancestral festivity soon dissolves into shuddering horror when a radical senicide ritual is...
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