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Mary: "I don't handle gore well."

Morgan Freeman narration: "And Mary was about to have... a very bad time..."

Horror based on atrocious human behavior hits me harder than supernatural stories because it can and may actually occur. It is good that you fortified yourself with a friend's company.

The cult planned on having Dani join from the beginning. Watch the scene where they arrive through the big sun gate again. They greet everyone with "Welcome," but the greet Dani with "Welcome Home."

The cult is not responsible for Dani's family dying. The movie showed their deaths because the tragedy made Dani vulnerable to the cult's influence, they brainwashed her, used her pain to allure her. Pelle was gaslighting her as much as the boyfriend. She smiled at the end because her mind is fractured, that is the happiness of the insane, it's a beautiful shot but it's so incredibly sad. Loved your reactions.

Midsommar AKA how to break up with your boyfriend 101 (works 100% of the time)

The thing with the villagers breathing with her when she has a breakdown is supposed to show them "empathizing" with her to contrast with her boyfriend gaslighting her, but it's a fake empathy. It's superficial. The whole movie is about toxic relationships and how true connections are difficult and manipulation has a toll on the mind.

I don't know who suggested this movie for you but he was an evil genius.

Morty was forced to watch the whole thing 😂

I’m sorry but when you guys kept looking away, I just see Rick making Morty watch it in the background

The whole "They didn't even warn the Americans?!" reaction had me rolling.

I'm Swedish, and I love this film. Some of it is inspired by "Hårgalåten", a song that you can find on YouTube, that's about a legend from the village Hårga in Hälsingland province, where a mysterious musician took all the teenagers to a dance, but he was actually the devil, and in his music a spell was interwoven, that made the teens unable to stop dancing, until only their skeletons were left.

The old people jumping from the cliff is inspired by a concept called "Ättestupa" from viking times, where elders would commit suicide by jumping from a cliff to save resources for the community. I'm doubtful whether it ever actually happened though, it might just be a legend. However there is historical evidence from other cultures, that similar things did occasionally happen.

However, the film was shoot in Hungary, and very little of the costumes, customs and houses have any real resemblance to traditional Swedish culture. Nor does the landscape look very much like Hälsingland. This bugs me a bit with the film, as it kinda ruins the believability for me. At least the language that the villagers speak is proper Swedish, and we do indeed have particularly potent psychedelic mushrooms in Sweden (called "toppslättsskivling"), that's two things at least that they got right.

Mary and Amy: "This is so fucked up!"

Hammer guy: "Hold my beer..."

Mary: “I handle blood better than you.”

Also Mary: “IM NOT OKAY. THIS PART IS FUCKING ME UP.”

The parents and sister weren't killed by the cult; that was just a family tragedy. However, the fact that she'd lost her whole family made her a prime target for indoctrination by the cult, with its promises of community and family, especially after her boyfriend failed so completely at supporting her.

I think part of the reason this movie's so terrifying is BECAUSE it's so beautiful and brightly lit. The dark is the single most common phobia in the world so, on some level, people who scare easily say"If Il watch with the lights on I might not see everything" since most horror movies are so dark. With this film, you KNOW you're going to see whatever they show you, crystal clear, no matter what. There's no "hiding" from it, which only heightens the sense of anxiety.

Connie's death scream can be faintly heard by 3 characters. Josh hears it from the scared temple at the 1 hour 26 minute 24 second of the film, the next shot is Dani taking her baking out of the oven and hears it, then the next shot is Mark wandering around outside and reacts. I think it's implied that there was just 1 scream and the film showed us 3 different reactions.
My favorite reaction moment is ALWAYS when the scene with Dani and Pelle all relaxed and calm, changes to the old folks with their smashed-in faces being rolled out onto the barbeque. Always hilarious reactions. The film did that on purpose!! XD
Also, when Josh is in the sacred temple to take pics of their sacred runic text, notices someone behind and turns, the camera pans around and you can see someone standing behind a hidden corner, that was Pelle, he was the one who knocked him out. And the one with the messed up face was the guy who wanted to - and eventually did - kill Mark. He was wearing Mark's face. :)

There is actually a lot of authenticity in this film, which is what makes me love it as a Swede.
Ättestupa is from the viking age. If someone doesn't die from battle, old people were given the chance to still have an honourable death that would allow them into Valhalla by jumping off a cliff.

The blood eagle is also viking age, a torture technique where they opened the ribcage along the spine and pulled the lungs out while the person was still alive.

The clothes ate clearly inspired by our folk costumes as is the music.

Dancing around a maypole is 100% legit, and the dance till you fall comes from a folk song called Hårgalåten, wherein the devil dresses up as a fiddler and makes the young people dance till they die. The song even gave name to this community.

There's a lot more, like the art in Dani's room at the start (the bear and young girl, by a very famous classic Swedish artist), to the runes and pictures.

The wholesome hugging 😭😭😭 kinda needed that in my first watch

The hugging and wailing you both did throughout this film is great. That's how I felt while watching it.