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.