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MIDSOMMAR MURDERS

This essential summer scare-fest will bring you crashing back to earth post-Glasto

WORDS James Gill

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alance loves festivals. There's something about standing
in a large field with close friends, dancing to music,
that's almost spiritual. And, yes, in some instances,
chemical. And that's the beauty of writer/director Ari
Aster's latest offering Midsommar, which lures you in with warm
thoughts of summer shindigs. However, Glastonbury this is not.
When friends including Florence Pugh, Will Poulter and Jack
Reynor, three of the finest young actors around, head for a summer
get-together in Sweden, it all feels so welcoming. Well, at first.
Welcoming soon descends into weird and things go wrong - very,
very wrong - as the event, which only occurs once every 90 years,
features pagan rituals and much more besides that Pugh and pals
are encouraged to watch and experience first-hand.

While Midsommar won't quite do for festivals what Jaws did for
swimming and lilos (not because it isn't a treat, but because things
take a turn for the truly bizarre), it will stay with you throughout the
summer months. After all, it's from the wonderfully twisted mind
of Aster, the visionary responsible for acclaimed psychological
horror-drama Hereditary (currently streaming on Prime Video, so
check it out).
There's a haunting and cultish Wicker Man-esque vibe to
Aster's second feature film, which also offers rubber-stamped
confirmation Poulter, Pugh and Reynor are talents to always watch.
And, at a time when cinemas are dominated by franchise films, it's
a perfect opportunity to buck the trend by scaring yourself silly.
Midsommar is in cinemas now

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