Ari Aster acknowledged The Wicker Man as the obvious ancestor of Midsommar: outsiders invited to a pagan community's sunlit summer festival that ends in a burning sacrifice.
Film· 2019· Horror
Midsommar
by Ari Aster
Midsommar: it draws on 3 recorded sources.
What influenced Midsommar
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Ari Aster told Vulture that Midsommar is 'a Wizard of Oz for perverts': a grieving young woman carried off to a bright, strange land.
Real-world influences
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Culture
Real world
Real-world influenceHIGH
- Swedish Midsummer
Americans visit a Swedish commune for its midsummer festival, with maypole dancing and flower crowns turned to horror.