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.

“Midsommar is a many-splendored—many-categoried—thing. Aesthetically, it’s sun-blanched, flower-child “daytime horror,” with a color palette seemingly borrowed from a Coachella photo spread. Narratively, it’s nordic pagan “folk horror,” where terror lies in the arbitrary irrationality of human social codes and cultural tribalism. Commercially, it’s the kind of glossy, conceptually ambitious, highly stylized “elevated horror” whose makers tend to self-reflexively emphasize the qualities that differentiate their work from “mere” genre cinema, and whose contours have been litigated by a certain kind of trend-hungry critical discourse for several years now. As in his first feature [2018’s Hereditary], director Ari Aster has harnessed a singular mode of uneasiness in Midsommar that is cumulative and insidious: every setpiece is composed of precise, striking visual elements that are at once abstract and potently, primally suggestive.” -FILM COMMENT

Doors Open 30 Minute Before Showtime.