12 Easter Eggs in ‘Midsommar’ That Make the Movie so Much Scarier
“So we just gonna ignore the bear then?”
Midsommar (2019) is the best summer horror movie of the 2010s. It’s wickedly surreal, fiercely original, a visual masterpiece, filled with arresting plot twists — and knowing about these Easter eggs make it even scarier. For those that haven’t seen Midsommar, stop reading now and go watch it, as what follows is filled with spoilers.
- In the New York bar scene, Pelle tells Christian, “Don’t forget about all the Swedish women you can impregnate in June.”
2. Did you notice how the Swedish dialogue spoken by the Hårga natives isn’t subtitled? This is intentional to make the audience feel isolated and confused.
3. This same feeling is evoked by the minimal dialogue in the last 20 minutes. Although Dani and Christian are clearly the main characters of the story, they do not talk to each other at all during the last 20 minutes of the film, which subconsciously is extremely haunting because it reinforces their isolation from each other.
4. The village in the movie only seems to have about 100 people or so, which does not make it genetically sustainable. We know that they breed with outsiders like Christian and Dani, but the Hårga are also okay with some members inbreeding because they believe incest creates oracle children.
5. When Dani is lifted onto the pedestal and brought to the dinner table — Dani’s sister’s face is visible in the trees. You can even see the exhaust tube which she used to kill herself.
6. Earlier, Dani also has a more explicit hallucination of her dead sister while she is tripping on the mushroom tea.
7. When Dani has a nightmare she breathes out black smoke; this is also a reference to how her sister and parents died.
8. While everyone is eating, Christian’s drink is red. Everyone else is drinking yellow juice. What’s up with Christian’s drink? It was steeped with menstrual blood.
9. When the group is sitting in their New York apartment, there is a book on the coffee table called The Secret Nazi Language of the Uthark, and some viewers find this to be a subtle reference to right-wing populism in Europe and Nordic culture’s largely homogenous populations.
10. This scene is never explained, so some viewers miss it, but Simon becomes a victim of blood-eagle torture at the hands of the Hårga.
11. When Josh dies, he thinks he sees Mark. This is because Mark was skinned and Josh’s attacker is wearing Mark’s skinned face as a mask.
12. Connie’s death is also off-screen, but it seems she was drowned in place of a Hårga boy in a ritual seen in the director’s cut.
Further reading:
- It’s Canon That The Cult in ‘Midsommar’ Is White Supremacist, Here Are The Receipts
- Dani’s Ending in Midsommar Isn’t the Feminist Win You Think It Is
- The Creepiest Part Of ‘Midsommar’ That Most People Missed
