10 Movies That Gave Away The Spoiler Immediately

Director Ari Aster has a penchant for mischief in his movies, despite the fact that they are often bleak as a British winter and just as dark, and his folk horror sophomore feature Midsommar is no different.

In Midsommar, Dani Ardor (Florence Pugh) joins her boyfriend and his college friends on a visit to a remote Swedish commune, where they celebrate a festival that only occurs once every 90 years. While the Swedes are friendly, their ways are not, and bathed in glorious summer sun, each member of the group -- save for Dani -- becomes a human sacrifice in their final ceremony. Yep, it's millennial Wicker Man.

Prior to Midsommar's most harrowing of opening sequences, in which Dani's family are all killed at home by her sister in a carbon monoxide murder-suicide, the film begins on a whimsical and slightly terrifying mural. More than simply an allusion to the murals that cover the inner walls of the sleeping quarters at the commune, this image depicts all the major movements of the film.

Read from left to right, the mural reveals the events of Midsommar in order, from the death of Dani's family, to their journey to Sweden, the death of the commune's elders, and Dani's emotional recovery at the end. There are dozens of smaller and thematic details to be drawn out of the picture, and, like Midsommar, it deserves repeat and attentive viewing.