[WATCH] ‘Midsommar’ Trailer Celebrates The Summer Solstice

Horror visionary Jordan Peele praised Midsommar for being “iconic” and “atrociously disturbing,” and the primary reactions from audiences recommend that it’s additionally shockingly humorous. In any occasion, the followup from Herditary director Ari Arster lately debuted a primary trailer that previewed an American couple’s terrifying journey to a Swedish commune the place disturbing, clique-y antics start to unfold on the summer time solstice, and on this followup trailer — arriving on the precise summer time solstice, June 21, the longest day of the yr — cult rituals rise to the floor.

Meals, video games, parades, chants, and extra “gross” competition happenings happen, together with a recreation known as “skin the fool.” Oh, and there are bears on the scene and a few levitation. This doesn’t bode properly. From the synopsis:

Dani and Christian are a younger American couple with a relationship getting ready to falling aside. But after a household tragedy retains them collectively, a grieving Dani invitations herself to affix Christian and his buddies on a visit to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer competition in a distant Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer time vacation in a land of everlasting daylight takes a sinister flip when the insular villagers invite their company to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise more and more unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary thoughts of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale the place a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight.

Midsommar arrives in theaters on July 3.