Movies Like Midsommar

If you loved Midsommar (2019) for its daylight horror, unsettling folk rituals, and the way it uses a toxic relationship as the real source of dread, these 10 movies deliver a similar experience. We picked each one based on shared tone, themes, and emotional feel — not just surface-level genre tags.

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   1. The Wicker Man

   1973 Horror

   The Wicker Man follows a devout Scottish police sergeant who travels to a remote island to investigate a missing girl and finds a community devoted to pagan customs. It is the foundational folk horror film, and Midsommar owes it an obvious debt: an outsider, cheerful villagers, ritual festivities, and a fate sealed long before he understands it. It is less graphic and more of a mystery, with folk songs and an eerie calm in place of Midsommar's hallucinations.

   Where to watch The Wicker Man
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   2. Hereditary

   2018 Horror

   Hereditary follows a family in mourning after the death of a secretive grandmother, as grief and strange occurrences tear them apart. It is Ari Aster's first feature, made just before Midsommar, and both use trauma and family pain as the real fuel for their horror. Hereditary is darker in every sense, set largely inside a shadowy house, and it is more conventionally terrifying, with supernatural scares and a devastating sense of inevitability.

   Where to watch Hereditary
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   3. The Witch

   2015 Horror

   The Witch follows a Puritan family in 1630s New England who are banished from their settlement and start to fall apart after their baby vanishes near the woods. Like Midsommar, it is a slow-burn folk horror film about isolation, belief, and a young woman whose story ends somewhere unexpected. Robert Eggers' film is much bleaker and grayer, with period dialogue and a small cast, so it trades Midsommar's sunlit pageantry for cold dread.

   Where to watch The Witch
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   4. Apostle

   2018 Horror

   Apostle follows a man in 1905 who travels to a remote island to rescue his sister from a religious cult that is holding her for ransom. Midsommar fans will recognize the outsider infiltrating an isolated commune with strange beliefs and dark secrets. Gareth Evans' film, starring Dan Stevens, is more violent and more of a period thriller, and it leans toward overt supernatural horror instead of Midsommar's ambiguity.

   Where to watch Apostle
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   5. Kill List

   2011 Horror

   Kill List follows a former soldier turned hitman who takes on a mysterious contract alongside his partner, and the job grows stranger and more disturbing with each target. It begins as a gritty crime drama before plunging into folk horror, which is why it lands on a Midsommar list. Ben Wheatley's film is grimy, low-budget, and deliberately confusing, so it feels rawer and harsher, but its final act shares the same shocking ritual dread.

   Where to watch Kill List
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   6. The Ritual

   2017 Horror

   The Ritual follows four old friends on a hiking trip in northern Sweden who take a shortcut through a forest and find signs of something ancient stalking them. The Scandinavian setting and pagan backdrop make it a natural pick after Midsommar, and both explore friendships fractured by grief and guilt. It is closer to a creature feature, set mostly in dark woods rather than open meadows, and it delivers more traditional scares.

   Where to watch The Ritual
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   7. Suspiria

   2018 Horror

   Suspiria follows an American dancer who joins a prestigious dance company in 1970s Berlin, which turns out to be run by a coven of witches. Luca Guadagnino's remake shares Midsommar's interest in a female-led community with secret rituals and a young woman drawn deeper into its embrace. It is longer, colder, and more political, with a gray Berlin setting, and its dance sequences replace Midsommar's festival rites as the source of horror.

   Where to watch Suspiria
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   8. The Lighthouse

   2019 Horror

   The Lighthouse traps two lighthouse keepers, played by Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, on a remote New England island in the 1890s, where isolation and drink drive them toward madness. It shares Midsommar's art-house approach to horror, with striking images and a story that blurs reality and hallucination. Shot in black and white with a near-square frame, it is grim and claustrophobic, more of a two-person descent than a cult story.

   Where to watch The Lighthouse
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   9. Annihilation

   2018 Sci-Fi

   Annihilation follows a biologist, played by Natalie Portman, who joins an expedition into a mysterious zone where plants, animals, and people are being transformed. It is not folk horror, but it matches Midsommar's eerie mix of beauty and terror, with lush, colorful landscapes that hide something deeply wrong. Alex Garland's film is science fiction about grief and self-destruction, more cerebral in tone, and its horror comes from nature rather than people.

   Where to watch Annihilation
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    10. Bone Tomahawk

    2015 Horror

    Bone Tomahawk follows a small posse of men in the Old West, led by a sheriff played by Kurt Russell, who ride out to rescue townspeople abducted by a cave-dwelling clan of cannibals. Like Midsommar, it is a patient slow burn that erupts into sudden, shocking violence in a remote landscape. It is a western first, with dry humor and long stretches on the trail, and its single brutal sequence is far more graphic than anything in Midsommar.

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