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Midsommar Review

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4.4640 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Midsommar is the antidote for "spooky house syndrome". If there is a more idyllic horror movie, I don’t know of it. This slow burn pagan horror film will stick with you and give you plenty to talk about afterwards. It certainly gave us a lot to talk about. This episode of Horror Movie Talk comes in at just over two hours. https://youtu.be/1Vnghdsjmd0 Midsommar can be found in theaters now. Midsommar Synopsis Writer/Director Ari Aster has followed up his dark drama-filled cult-based horror movie with this bright drama-filler cult-based horror movie. Midsommar stars Florence Pugh  who plays Dani, an anxious young woman who experiences a horrible family tragedy, and then accompanies her boyfriend and anthropology doctoral student Christian (Jack Reynor) on a trip to Sweden to experience a traditional summer festival of a certain rural commune. Watch MidsommarFull Movie MidsommarClick here to Watch Christian and his friends Josh and Mark were invited on the trip by their friend and classmate, Pelle who grew up in the small Swedish commune. Unbeknownst to Dani, Christian has been planning to break up with her for a while, and unbeknownst to everyone but Pelle, the once in a lifetime midsommar festival is actually a vicious pagan cult ritual. My Review of Midsommar Midsommar was everything I wanted it to be, and I had high expectations. It’s a breath of fresh air in the horror genre, and like Hereditary, takes a lot of concepts from older horror movies and melds them to create a new and compelling story for today. Ari Aster’s strength is his focus on character and relationship drama, and the characters and relationships in this movie are very familiar and believable. They serve to ground the horror elements so that they also seem very real. The bright and idyllic setting of the movie does a lot to mask and inoculate the viewer to the horrific rituals that occur in the festival. Also, the framing of the events as a rare and sacred cultural event, along with the generous drug usage creates a logical reason for why the American characters are slow to react to the more extreme elements of the festival. Check Out Our Review of The Ritual https://www.horrormovietalk.com/2018/11/28/the-ritual-review/ If you like pagan or ancient rituals in your horror, check out our episode on The Ritual. It’s a slow burn, and while there are horrific and surprising scenes, they are intentionally dampened with the over saturated visuals and muted sound design. The tension and anxiety that I felt ramped up very slowly throughout the movie, to where I didn’t realize how much I was being affected. Towards the end I was on the edge of my seat with a lot of nervous energy watching the inevitable and dreadful fate of the American party.  Score for Midsommar Score 9/10 Midsommar Spoilers Expand for Spoilers and Deeper Discussion... The opening act of Midsommar The film's opening act is really about setting up the relationship between Dani and Christian. Dani is very needy and has a lot of family drama so she leans on Christian very heavily. Christian isn't as self sacrificing and long-suffering as he portrays to Dani, and is actually working up the courage to finally break up. Ari Aster has described this movie as a "break up movie". So it's very important to frame this relationship early on. Check Out Our Review of It Chapter Two https://www.horrormovietalk.com/2019/09/11/it-chapter-two-review/ The latest scare for Dani is that her sister isn't returning her emails, and after she calls and and expresses her worry to Christian, he (after the call) commiserates with his buddies, and they encourage him to finally break it off. Well, Dani's fears become very real when it is revealed that her sister poisoned herself and her parents with carbon monoxide in an apparent murder suicide. Cut to shot of Dani screaming in utter dispair, ala Hereditary.

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Hello and welcome to Horror Movie Talk, an opinionated and accidentally funny horror movie review show.

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Your panel of expert hosts each week are Dr. Bryce Hansen, who holds a Ph.D. in Spookology,

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and Professor David Day, the foremost expert on Scare No-Nose.

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New theatrical releases always get priority, but we also review older horror movies, both good and horrible.

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I'm Dr. Bryce Hansen.

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And I'm the primary expert on Scare No-Nose, David Day.

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And special guest with us today is...

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Oh, I am Garrett Day.

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