Unsettling, but in a wrong way

Rating: 3/10 (14 August 2019)

The film started badly for me: the opening scene in which Dani's sister committed suicide and murdered her parents contributed nothing to the plot. I also did not like Dani as a personage, she came across as a weak and dependent person, not an attractive character for a horror film. After watching the opening scene I hope it would get better, but unfortunately: the story didn't seem to go anywhere and creepy moments didn't come, partly due to the sunny setting. By the way, I had expected that the non-setting sun would make the atmosphere in the film more intense, something that did not happen. some scenes (the forced sex, the elderly people jumping off the rocks, ...) made me very uncomfortable but did not feel threatening or scary. "Feeling weird" is not something I'm looking for in a horror movie, other reviewers (see the positive reviews) apparently do. Midsommar left me disappointed.