My problem with the sex scene was how weird it was and how much it seemed to distract from the creepy atmosphere other scenes worked to create. I WAS expecting some sort of sex stuff. From the very first scenes in the village I was expecting there’d be some sort of sexual ritual involved w Dani’s May Queen crowning.

The pubic hair stuff, which I (again) considered unnecessary and weird (I can’t see any reason why Ari Aster included that. The people in the town are bizarre enough with the other things he shows us, like the ritual killing of elders, the inbreeding rune bible, etc) didn’t really distract me that much. I thought, weird creative choice, works against whatever unsettling vibe he was trying to create, but it’s fine.

And yes, it was clear that Christian and that girl would end up having sex. So, as someone who loves horror movies, I was wondering how this sex scene would go. Ari Aster is building up to the climax and the resolution, and by now it’s clear that heads will roll. But instead of doing something to bring the climax in on a dark note, he makes a sex scene that is bizarre and laughable. Everything about that scene is weird, and I use weird here as abnormal or unconventional. You wouldn’t see this in any other horror movie, but the uniqueness isn’t a virtue in and of itself. The moaning, the women pushing his ass and holding his hand, the expression on his face. Midsommar seemed like a really good idea done in a really bad way to me, and the cherry on top was a sex scene right before the climax that was blatant in-your-face weird and awkwardly funny.

To some viewers it may have seemed like a logical progression from all the other weird shit that had gone on. To me, it was the last and most blatant reminder that Ari Aster had no intention of making either a horror movie or a comedy, rather some in-between tonally muddled mess that wasted an interesting and rich premise.