Join the Center for Folklore Studies and the Humanities Institute for a free screening of this classic folk horror film! A Q+A will follow, led by Merrill Kaplan, director of the Center for Folklore Studies and the Scandinavian program in the Department of German Languages and Literatures. With free pizza!
A grieving young woman joins her boyfriend and his fellow graduate students on their trip to a rural mid-summer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly develops into an increasingly violent series of rituals at the hands of a strange cult.
Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, Christian invites Dani to join him and his friends on their trip to Northern Europe. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in the land of eternal summer sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing.
This event is free, open to the public and welcoming to all. Co-hosted by the Center for Folklore Studies and the Humanities Institute.
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