5 OF THE BEST

Few horrors are as sun-drenched as , a film deliberately set in northern Sweden where the midnight sun offers no hiding places. Few horrors contain as many smiling threats, full of hospitality and good cheer even as they burn you alive in the skin of a dead bear. And few horrors have as much to say about destructive relationships, mental health and family with such suffocating intensity. There really are), offering jaw-dropping visual iconography, a tone that quivers like a needle between the fears and the funnies (the sex scene is one for the ages), and themes that you’ll chew on long after the staggering, enigmatic-smiling finale. As the Swedes would say: “!”