This segment accommodates spoilers for the finishing of “Midsommar.”
One obtrusive touchstone for “Midsommar” is “The Wicker Guy,” which almost wrote the style handbook on secret cults and human sacrifice. Alternatively, when requested if he referenced some other sunlight hours horror films, Aster as an alternative pointed to influences out of doors the world of strict horror. A kind of used to be “Black Narcissus,” a movie we revisited on its seventy fifth anniversary in 2022.
It is no secret that “Midsommar” is a breakup film, with the query “Do you’re feeling held via him?” forcing Dani to rethink the character of her courting with Christian amid his forget and unfaithfulness. This provides the time-honored, ritualistic “Christian” sacrifice (and metaphorical breakup) on the finish a unique underpinning than what we have observed in different people horror motion pictures. Talking of collaborators like his cinematographer, Pawel Pogorzelski, Aster stated:
“We have been speaking extra about breakup films than horror films, like Albert Brooks’ ‘Fashionable Romance.’ If ‘Midsommar’ works past my wildest goals, it could be one thing you move to after a breakup. Like, each time after a breakup, I watch ‘Fashionable Romance.’ On ‘Hereditary,’ the films we watched [during filming] were not horror films, and on ‘Midsommar’ too. I like horror — ‘Hereditary’ used to be completely a horror movie, I would not argue in opposition to that. This movie is adjoining to horror; I would not name it a horror movie. I recall to mind it as a fairy story with horror components.”
“Horror-adjacent” is indisputably one solution to describe “Midsommar,” however Aster additionally appeared to point out that he sought after it to land as a horror comedy or horror dramedy of varieties. “I am hoping it is wrenching and humorous,” he stated. “And I am hoping you might be guffawing on the finish! Absolute best-case state of affairs, you might be guffawing on the finish, and the laughs catch for your throat a bit of.”
