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Midsommar

2019 · TMDB 7.1

Directed by Ari Aster

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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A grieving woman joins her boyfriend at a Swedish midsummer festival that turns sinister. Ari Aster's film bathes folk horror in daylight, making the horror all the more disorienting.

From The Wicker Shadows of Folk Horror

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