Long Winded, Pretentious, but Not Mindless Horror Flick

Rating: 7/10 (14 February 2020)

The movie beginns very slow and that's the speed over the whole playtime. When some young people travel to a nativ cult in sweden, they have no clue whats waiting for them. It's a story about a fictional teutonic cult that celebrate a nativ cult ritual, which happens to occur every 90 years. Beginning with some drug intoxication, many people may guess where it ends. This is a very bright and friedly atmosphered horror movie, which becomes bloody, and visually clearly gory in several scenes. The story slowly developes and progresses over the whole playtime. The characters slide into the story deeper and deeper and that's not only because of the acting, the technical aspects of that movie allow the audience, to easily glide into the storyflow. There are many strong visual scenes, that match with a hypnotic score. So the hole movie slows the audience down while telling the story. It didn't really feel like 2 hours and 27 minutes, because I was so slowed down myself.
I wouldn't call it a real new invention of the horror gere. There are some pretty good horror movies that formerly were made in Scandinavia. 'Midsommar' is not really an excellent movie, but also not mediocre. I've seen a bunch of compareable movies before. 'The Wicker Man' from 70's dealt with such a scenario close to 46 years earlier. All in all I like the atmosphere, so it's a recommendation.