"You’re going to love it," the trailer for Hereditary director Ari Aster's latest horror movie offering Midsommar tells us – but in an eerie 90 seconds punctuated by bells and exhaled breaths, an unsettling tale emerges around an occult Swedish festival that descends into madness and bloodshed.

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The Little Drummer Girl actress Florence Pugh stars as Dani, who visits a friend's hometown in Sweden alongside her boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor). The setting is sun-drenched and idyllic, but the trailer is filled with foreboding and strange images...

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We also see glimpses of The Good Place star William Jackson Harper, as well as Bandersnatch's Will Poulter, as events take a turn for the creepy.

Last year, Aster shocked audiences with his 2018 horror movie Hereditary which left film fans seriously unsettled. Will Midsommar have the same effect?

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Midsommar will be released in summer 2019

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