Review #152: Midsommar (2019)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #7 - Midsommar (2019) First things first, I've seen Midsommar a few times before- it's my wife's favorite movie in fact, and it's often on in the background while we're doing things around the house- but this was the first time I've actually sat down and paid attention to it in quite a long time. Not only that, but we chose to watch the Director's Cut, which I'd never seen- and it adds a whopping ~30 minutes' worth of content, mostly in the forms of extended scenes that add a lot of context to the scenes that are already there! So, I'll put this right out there: I think this is a great film, though it's lacking something and I'm not sure what. It took until this latest viewing of the film to really feel a significant amount of dread or fear for the characters; my first time through I distinctly remember sitting through the whole movie and constantly...