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Both of these movies are written and directed by Ari Aster. Both have been highly praised. To me they are both bad movies. In fact I think parts of Midsommar were actually supposed to be comic.

"Hereditary" was just a mash up of a bunch of different horror clichés. Some scary moments but overall it seemed disjointed and at the end I was left wondering what a bunch of the scenes had to do with the story.

"Midsommar" was even worse. Lots of details about archaic ritual but not a lot of story. And parts of it seem to be out of a comedy. One guys disappears and later it shows his foot sticking up out of the ground in a flower garden. A key sex scene is features the young couple surrounded by a group of disgusting fat old naked ladies. One of them even starts pushing on the guys but as he is banging the girl. Hereditary also featured a big scene at the end with a large group of old fat disgusting people. I think Aster has some weird fetish for disgusting fat naked women. In another scene a guy is taking a piss and it ends up being on the "Ancestor Tree". And in the end boy who was in the sex scene is sewed up inside the skin of a dead bear so he looks like he is in a big Comicon teddy bear outfit.

I don't care what critics say. These are lame movies. Aster is working on a third film and I am hoping it is a full blown parody.
To each their own, but I thought Hereditary was disturbing on a level a majority of horror films can't even come close to hitting.

Haven't seen Midsommar yet, but the general consensus is it's solid, but not as good as Hereditary.
Try "Sushi Girl" and get back to me.