20 Best Performances In Horror Movies

Ari Aster has emerged over the last few years as one of cinema's best new talents, kicking his career off with the revelatory Hereditary in 2018, and following it up here with the slow-burn folk horror masterclass Midsommar.

The film is made up of a series of seriously shocking plot twists and grisly images of human sacrifice and cult insanity, and guiding the story forward - aside from Aster's assured and purposefully slow, tension-building direction - is Florence Pugh, who plays grieving protagonist Dani as she and her friends journey to Sweden and find themselves involved with a disturbing Pagan cult.

Midsommar contains Pugh's best work yet - a hypnotising dramatic role that allows her to play a strong-willed woman beaten up by the world around her and forced to combat her despair, her friends and the new world she doesn't fully understand but can't help but be drawn to.

Alongside her work in Fighting with My Family and Little Women, Midsommar shows how destined Pugh is for future Oscar glory.