Midsommar - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Midsommar or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Midsommar

[ronnie]

When Christian is waiting to speak with Siv in her house, he studies a piece of wallpaper with the image of a burning bear on it. This foreshadows his eventual demise at the end of the film where, during a ritual in the yellow building, he is placed inside a disembowled bear, set in the middle of the eight other human sacrifices, and burned alive.

[willard]

The film was originally given an NC-17 by the MPAA. According to Ari Aster, around 30 minutes was cut from the final film mainly due to content. The director's cut released shortly after its theatrical run restores this footage.

[maureen]

William Jackson Harper is the only American actor in the film. Jack Reynor, although born in Colorado, is Irish, Florence Pugh is English, and Will Poulter is English. All other supporting actors are either Swedish, British, or Hungarian.

[ruby]

After the sex scene, Christian was supposed to run away in the robe that he had entered in. Jack Reynor himself suggested that Christian run out completely nude to appear more vulnerable: thus he appears fully nude when trying to escape. Reynor was inspired by having recently watched The Last House on the Left (1972): like many films in the horror genre, female characters are disrobed, humiliated, and/or assaulted before their demise. He felt it was due time that male characters be made to suffer similar indignation.

[brent]

When Josh sneaks away to photograph pictures of the 'Rubi Radr' holy book, he thinks that he sees Mark standing in the doorway of the temple: it is in fact Ulf (the man who screamed at Mark for urinating on the ancestral tree) wearing Mark's skin. (This is confirmed by the screenplay). Earlier Mark had asked Josh if he thought that Ulf was going to kill him for urinating on the tree. Though it happens off-screen, this is exactly what happens.

[michele]

This film was greenlit on May 18, 2018, and premiered on June 18, 2019, marking an unusually short production period for a wide-release theatrical film.

[bernard]

Much to the chagrin of Swedish horror fans, the film was not released during midsummer in Sweden, but a few weeks afterwards.

[kristen]

Early in the film, the college men are seated in the bar under a massive reproduction of the infamous Sophia Loren-Jayne Mansfield 'wardrobe malfunction' photo.

[camila]

Production for the film was announced immediately after Hereditary (2018) was released.

[jeffrey]

Jack Reynor, who stars in this movie as Christian, played a cult member and temporary leader in the CBS All Access show "Strange Angel" (2018)

[camila]

Pelle mentions that Maja has just become "byxmyndig". This is Swedish slang for the age of consent, which is 15 in Sweden. Isabelle Grill, who plays Maja, was 20 years old when the movie was filmed.

[wallace]

Mark displays an extreme phobia of ticks, which is based on Ari Aster's real-life fear of bugs and illness. Like Mark, Aster wore two pairs of socks over his jeans to ensure he would not receive bug bites.

[carla]

During the climax of the movie, one of the elders of Harga has Dani choose between Christian or a randomly-picked community member to be sacrificed at the final day of the Midsommar festival. The method they use to randomly pick the member is a lottery ball machine, much like a famous short story known as 'The Lottery' which revolves around sacrificing a community member so that a society can continue to flourish.

[eli]

Early in the film, Simon sees a group of kids playing and asks Pelle what they are doing. Pelle explains that they are playing "Skin the fool". During the sacrifice scene at the end of the film, Mark's skinned and mutilated body is carried into the temple with a jester's hat atop his head. The kids game may have been derived from the actual practice of "skinning the fool" for the Mid-summer sacrifice.