When Ari Aster released last year’s Hereditary on an unsuspecting public he took the horror world by storm. Polarizing as it was, the Toni Collette vehicle raised the bar for high concept horror and changed the game so to speak. With the anticipation of his next horror opus Midsommar, Aster is building anticipation by giving us a first poster that is filled with anguish and dread. We can’t wait.
Synopsis: Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight.
