Twisted folk horror with a wicked sense of humour that will disturb you.

Rating: 7/10 (11 November 2019)

A group of American college students who have never seen the Wicker Man travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan suicide cult. Ari Aster's follow up to Hereditary has been described as both a 'Wizard of Oz for perverts', exposing the rotten heart of western civilisation, and a bad trip comedy (the hallucinations the characters experience while tripping on magic mushrooms are some of the most realistic ever portrayed on film). Midsommar is an ambitious movie, impressively crafted, and above all unsettling, further enhancing writer-director Aster's credibility as a horror auteur to be reckoned with.