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This post contains spoilers forMidsommar.
My experience of watchingMidsommarwas one of constant questioning.
The two would reunite when it became clear that Anderssons new projectMidsommarwould be shooting in Hungary.
(Though technically in the latter they were Replicants.)
Poharnok returned the compliment.
It has such a twisted, weird idea.
I fell in love with it instantly.
It was Poharnoks job to make each look as horrific as possible.
The basic method for creating a fake corpse onscreen has not changed much over the years.
The advent of 3-D printing has been transformative, though.
That sort of time-saving was necessary onMidsommar.
Due to Aster also having to finishHereditary,preproduction on the film was somewhat rushed.
The time we got for making each individual body was kind of short, Poharnok says.
Theres no quick way to do that.
Many of the bodies inMidsommarare defiled or distorted.
Presto, a writhing, mangled mess!
A short while later, Andresens head is smashed to a pulp.
(As with Andresens real body, most of the mechanics were hidden in a hole.)
The head even squirted fake blood!
Then with the push of another button, the whole thing would reset.
It worked beautifully, Poharnok says.
We just pressed the button and everything popped back into the original, pristine face.
It was the bear.
For one thing, the same bear had to be used in both the autopsy and the burning scenes.
It had to function both ways, Poharnok says.
The grossest element of the scene, though, was left on the cutting-room floor.
