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If you share the widespread opinion that Ari Aster's debut feature, Hereditary, is one of the most stressful, beautiful, cathartic horror movies ever made, then you’ve been waiting with bated breath for his follow-up. Midsommar is a brightly lit, flowery folk nightmare about a troubled American couple (Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor) traveling to rural Sweden to take part in some sort of charming outdoor festival. The trailer makes it look like 1973's Wicker Man with a dash of sexual jealousy and a gallon of hallucinatory terror. Please peer up from your slimy burrows, O gods of fright-night entertainment, and let Midsommar be as great as it looks.
by Joule Zelman