An autistic woman watching the acclaimed folk-horror film Midsommar, a dark exploration of grief which contains gruesome deaths, gore and animal sacrifice, has belatedly realised she probably shouldn’t have been giggling all the way through it, sources have reported.

Freya Emerson, 28, says that she doesn’t understand horror films but other people have explained to her that they’re not supposed to be the laugh riot she seems to think they are for some reason.

Emerson commented: “I just find certain things hilarious, like knives, suspenseful music, and folk tales of murder and revenge. And mallets! Hahaha, like when that guy got his face smashed in. Listen, if I’m not supposed to find mallets funny, then why are they in Tom & Jerry?”

“Midsommar was hilarious from the off. It starts off with an eerie wintry scene, but the music is going E-I-E-I-O so all I could think about was Old Macdonald Had a Farm,” she giggled. “Face it: even corpses are funny when you’re singing ‘Here a quack, there a quack, everywhere a quack quack’.”

“And I kept forgetting the villagers were speaking Swedish, so I really thought at one point they were singing ‘Gonorrhoea!'” she snort-laughed. “Anyway, STDs in that community? I’m not surprised with all that incestuous ritualistic humping.”

“A lot of people were moved by the emotional pinnacle of the film where Dani takes the role of the May Queen, shedding her grief and shifting toward insanity and joy. I couldn’t stop thinking about the girl who won May Queen in my home town: she had a lopsided fringe and got fingered round the back of Claire’s Accessories.”

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