A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarr... Read allA couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
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- TriviaWhen the film was released in Sweden, rather than eliciting fear in the audience, many people laughed. Many Swedish critics praised the film as an excellent black comedy.
- GoofsThe outfits the villagers of Hårga wear during the celebrations are vyshyvankas, which is part of the Ukrainian and Belarusian national costumes, not the national or regional costumes of Sweden and Hälsingland.
- Alternate versionsA 171-minute long director's cut premiered at the Scary Movies XII film festival at the Lincoln Film Center. This version adds more graphic violence and extends many pre-existing scenes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chris Stuckmann Movie Reviews: Midsommar (2019)
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Performed by Freeez
Written by John Robie and Arthur Baker
Produced by John Robie
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Weird and sometimes scary in the scandinavian midnight sun
This was a weird, but entertaining horror flick, that popped up on my danish TV app.
As a dane, and thus a real life neighbor to the swedish settting in the film, it was quite entertaining to watch this Hollywood take on Midsommar, that pagan leftover in swedish culture, something that we danes no longer celebrate.
The film is quite uneven and requires quite a bit of suspension of disbelief. Some scenes and traditions of the Hågra are too random to not have set off our protagonists in real life.
Said protagonists are paper thin in the film, it's all about the Hågra and the setting.
I will say this film is interesting from a scandinavian perspective, because it features a lot of swedish actors and a lot of blonde people. This still being normal here, particularly in places like rural Sweden.
However, from an american point of view, that is increasingly diverse, I can see how this "land of the blondes" might seem very foreign. I found this reverse exocitism interesting to think about.
Overall, I found the movie unnerving in parts, humorous in others. Well worth a watch.
As a dane, and thus a real life neighbor to the swedish settting in the film, it was quite entertaining to watch this Hollywood take on Midsommar, that pagan leftover in swedish culture, something that we danes no longer celebrate.
The film is quite uneven and requires quite a bit of suspension of disbelief. Some scenes and traditions of the Hågra are too random to not have set off our protagonists in real life.
Said protagonists are paper thin in the film, it's all about the Hågra and the setting.
I will say this film is interesting from a scandinavian perspective, because it features a lot of swedish actors and a lot of blonde people. This still being normal here, particularly in places like rural Sweden.
However, from an american point of view, that is increasingly diverse, I can see how this "land of the blondes" might seem very foreign. I found this reverse exocitism interesting to think about.
Overall, I found the movie unnerving in parts, humorous in others. Well worth a watch.
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- Dec 22, 2023
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- Midsommar: The Directors Cut
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- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $27,426,361
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,560,030
- Jul 7, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $48,046,804
- Runtime2 hours 28 minutes
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- 2.00 : 1
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