'Midsommar' is both an arty mood piece and a dread-filled horror show with some truly gnarly gore.
A summer movie season like this one, where non-Disney sequels are bombing just about as fast as Hollywood can release them, can potentially create even more hunger for alternatives to the usual deluge of brand-name tentpoles. Sometimes this comes in the form of offbeat arthouse fare, or in the form of semi-retro exploitation pictures—smaller-scale horror, thriller, and action movies that aren't automatically larded up with CG zap effects.
As with Hereditary, the horror starts on the normal human scale of everyday tragedy , as a devastating family death leaves Dani shaken and grief-stricken and holding on to any remnants of her normal life, especially her boyfriend Christian . Christian is first seen mulling a possible breakup, over pizza and light drugs with his fellow college-aged buddies .
Throughout, dread hangs over the proceedings, which are both bright and desaturated, to better emphasize the blinding cult whites. It's not the heavy, contorting dread of Aster's previous film; it's more disciplined than Hereditary's free-form freakouts, but also more traditional. Even within those confines, the effect is impressive: Aster can show as little as a rocky cliff or a brief scene of food preparation, and with barely any more context, you brace for the worst.
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