I love a good fright movie!!! One that shoots icy tingles
thru your body as the hair on your arms and the back of your neck stand at attention
riveting you to your seat while your nails claw deep into the armrests leaving
you a quivering bundle of nerves afterward!
I read online that Midsommar was probably the scariest movie
ever made. I knew I must see it! Well don't believe everything you read online!
For the first half hour I thought I was watching a tedious relationship drama
about a dysfunctional couple. Had I been watching this on DVD or my DVR I would
have fast-forwarded right thru this part. The plot was so slow to unfold it
made me want a nap.
Scary is the last word I'd use to describe this film. It was
just weird, violent, and lewd! There was lots of full-frontal nudity which I
found interesting. -- I don't see a lot of this in my regular everyday life!
However, I would never shell out money just to see naked people. I want a
gripping plot, too!
The story centers on a colorful floral, traditional Swedish
festival that seems innocent when in fact it's anything but. Here's a joke: How
many of these Swedish festival goers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: One to do it and the entire village to revel in the experience! Oh this
film pushes the phrase "It takes a village" to a whole different
level! These Swedish cultists reminded me of the pod-people from Invasion of
the Body Snatchers, a truly frightening movie, at least for 10 year old me. The
later remake not so much, but then I was no longer 10.
The original Night of the Living Dead actually terrified me
when I saw it in my early 20's along with my future stepmother who watched the
entire film with her eyes closed. "Next time I chose the movie,
Dianne!" she declared as we left the theater.
The remake several decades later was equally as horrifying, (I
LOVED it!) if not more so! As with the original, it stayed with me long after I
departed the theater. I found myself avoiding dark rooms in my own home.
However during the past decade there's been such a plethora of zombies in the
movies & on TV that now I can sit in a dark house alone watching, go to bed
afterward and sleep peacefully.
Perhaps as I age it's just becoming harder for me to buy
into fantasy fiction. Either way, Midsommar was a mid-summer disappointment.
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