The Festival
Two friends win tickets to Solstice, a midsummer festival pitched deep in the Welsh hills, and find the heat, the crowd, and the too-smooth organisers all feel subtly off. Louise Mumford's folk-horror-tinged thriller turns a getaway sour by degrees, until the real problem isn't getting in. It's getting back out.
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Libby wins tickets to Solstice, a midsummer music festival pitched deep in rural Wales, and talks her friend Dawn into coming along. It's supposed to be an escape. Both women have something they're running from, and a few days of music in the hills sounds like the cure. Mumford doesn't rush the dread. She lets it gather. The heat sits too heavy. The festival's branding carries an edge that never quite resolves into irony, and the organisers are a shade too polished. By the time the crowd tips into something genuinely unhinged, you've been trained to hear menace under every cheerful announcement over the PA.
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