Midsommar: Horror That Refuses the Dark

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Horror lives in the dark. It has always been the genre’s first tool — the thing off-screen, the corner the candle does not reach, the cut to black that lets your own imagination do the director’s work. Ari Aster’s Midsommar, from 2019, throws that tool out. It stages nearly its entire runtime under a sun that never sets, in a Swedish meadow so bright you have to squint, and it is one of the most upsetting films of its decade. Taking the dark away turns out to be scarier than any shadow, because in the light there is nowhere to hide from what people do to each other on purpose.

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Midsommar: Horror That Refuses the Dark