(2019)

Submitted by Jeremy

A college student named Dani (Florence Pugh) experiences a horrible tragedy when her sister kills herself and their parents. She receives consolation from her distant boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor). A while later, they are invited to join Christian’s friends for a trip to Sweden where they will travel to the commune where Christian’s friend Pelle grew up. The basis of the trip is a midsommar celebration that supposedly occurs every 90 years.

While there, the group meets Pelle’s brother Ingemar, as well as an English couple, Simon and Connie. Although things seem to be nothing more than a cultural learning experience, it becomes horrifying when they witness two elders jump to their deaths for a ritual. Simon and Connie try leaving after this, but they instead disappear, and the villagers make it seem like they left safely. Christian’s friends Josh and Mark are also killed after the former takes pictures of the commune’s book of paintings that provide a basis for their rituals, while the latter urinated on an ancestral tree.

Dani slowly adjusts to the commune’s customs, and is later crowned May Queen after winning a maypole dancing competition. However, she witnesses Christian taking the virginity of a village girl named Maja. Dani breaks down at the sight of it, but the other women in the village mimic her cries, appearing sympathetic to her.

At the end of the celebration, Dani must choose a sacrifice for the final ritual. She chooses Christian, who is drugged and paralyzed before being put into a bear suit, and he is later burned to death alongside Ingemar and the corpses of his friends. Dani has all but lost her sanity, and she smiles as her boyfriend burns inside a teepee.