8 Exact Decisions That Doomed Horror Movie Protagonists

8. Urinating On The Tree - Mark "Midsommar"

Many, many mistakes can be identified in Midsommar. But the most stupid decision that solidified the fate of Will Poulter's character, Mark, is that of urinating on a sacred tree.

Midsommar is a folk-horror film by Ari Aster that came a year after his directorial debut Hereditary. He took a different angle with Midsommar, deciding to use overexposure and bright lighting to create discomfort and horror. We are invited along on a trip with a group of college friends who are writing their thesis on this particular Swedish community, and immediately a few of the characters are shown to have questionable levels of intelligence.

Mark, the most arrogant and of the group, decides to urinate on a tree on the very first day of the friends being in the community. This angers multiple people, but most specifically one gentleman that later on in the film takes much pleasure in Mark's death.

Of course, Mark and the rest of the group were very much brought to Sweden by their Swedish friends to be sacrifices so their fate was predestined to a certain degree anyway. However, this very much solidified his fate!