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It's the season 9 finale! This week your favorite ghouls are discussing Ari Aster's sophomore film, Midsommar!

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Resources:

Midsommar has a deeply trans narrative hiding in plain sight By Emily VanDerWerff
https://www.vox.com/culture/21307689/midsommar-trans-review-ending-spoilers

Blood and Tears and Potions and Flame: Excesses of Transformation in Ari Aster’s Midsommar By Sandra Huber
https://framescinemajournal.com/article/blood-and-tears-and-potions-and-flame-excesses-of-transformation-in-ari-asters-midsommar/

Monstrous Womanhood and the Unapologetic Feminism of ‘Midsommar’ by Caitlin Kennedy
https://screen-queens.com/2019/07/13/monstrous-womanhood-and-the-unapologetic-feminism-of-midsommar/

How Midsommar Brainwashes You by Acolytes of Horror
https://youtu.be/gr2j0o_B2mw

Is Midsommar a Feminist Fable?
https://www.varsity.co.uk/film-and-tv/18054

Midsommar is the Perfect of Recapitulation of Female Rage by Alexandra Tsuneta
https://medium.com/v-a-l-l-e-y/midsommar-is-the-perfect-recapitulation-of-female-rage-cf7b22d3e8eb

Midsommar Is Queer and Camp, Actually by Juan Barquin
https://dimthehouselights.com/2019/07/midsommar-is-queer-and-camp-actually/

Midsommar, Orgasm, and the Terrifying Feminine by Savina Petkova
https://www.girlsontopstees.com/read-me/2019/8/15/midsommar-orgasm-and-the-terrifying-feminine

Midsommar’s “Happy” Ending, Explained by The Take
https://the-take.com/watch/midsommars-happy-ending-explained

Midsommar Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsommar

Ari Aster on Midsommar, Cathartic Endings, the Director's Cut, and His Favorite Films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPGaPTdno10

Ari Aster Discusses the Director's Cut of Midsommar | Scary Movies XII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uXyRg9iAEs

Midsommar’s eerie paintings by Karen Han
https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/18/20696442/midsommar-paintings-art-spoilers-a24 .

'Midsommar': Study of grief in psychedelic folk horror story by REYZANDO NAWARA
https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2019/09/16/midsommar-study-of-grief-in-psychedelic-folk-horror-story.html

Divine Absence in Horror Films by Nick Ripatrazone
https://imagejournal.org/article/god-alone-divine-absence-in-horror-films/

The Architecture of Horror: Space, Light, and Atmosphere in Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar by Raymond De Luca
https://brightlightsfilm.com/the-architecture-of-horror-space-light-and-atmosphere-in-ari-asters-hereditary-and-midsommar/#.YKKB73dKiu4

https://www.reddit.com/r/Midsommar/comments/cfaxxg/birthday_significance/

The Scariest Part Of ‘Midsommar’ That Nobody’s Talking About by Ali Hinnman
https://thoughtcatalog.com/ali-hinman/2020/02/the-scariest-part-of-midsommar-that-nobodys-talking-about/

The many meanings of bears in Christian art by Daniel Esparza
https://aleteia.org/2019/10/30/the-many-meanings-of-bears-in-christian-art/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uthark_theory

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thrillist.com/amphtml/entertainment/nation/midsommar-is-harga-real

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/cz82f2/did_anybody_else_feel_the_director_cut_of/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Midsommar/comments/btxywc/the_hårga_song/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228759479_Fungi_Folkways_and_Fairy_Tales_Mushrooms_Mildews_in_Stories_Remedies_Rituals_from_Oberon_to_the_Internet