Look out! It's Hereditary! The movie that's being lauded as the scariest since The Exorcist. Until the next movie that gets lauded for being the scariest movie since The Exorcist.
Reminds me of when someone finally explained depression in an accurate way. "Depression isnt sadness. Sadness is sadness, I'd kill for sadness. Depression is emptiness, I can't make myself care enough to feel sad, or happy, or horny, or disappointed. I feel nothing." Why watch a movie that makes you feel actually afraid, sad, or some other "bad" emotion? Because feeling things is kind of satisfying for us. If a movie can still make you feel anything (other than meta stuff like feeling ripped off) fucking cherish that while you can.
@@KejnTheImmortal sorry, forgot where I was. Yes, everyone has depression and depression is whatever you want it to be. You are all special. Fuck, forget I said anything.
That pretty much sums up anyone coming off of antidepressants medication. My uncle Phil was one amazing guy, always looked over us, a good role model, and a huge video gamer. I was utterly devastated when he passed away. I coped by watching a lot of movies and television shows, and avoiding old school games like Final Fantasy and The Legend of Zelda. That was sadness. The day my doctor took me off of antidepressants medication. Fucking nothing, absolutely nothing could fill the void. Everything was shit. My favorite shows like Game of Thrones was shit, my favorite games was shit. Nothing felt right. I couldn't find anything appealing or enjoyable. -- The messed up part... I was only on it for 30 days. I would rather be sad then to ever be in that place ever again.
I don't want to get into any kind of argument or anything like that with anyone on this thread. But I'd just like to say that the reason why this hit so close to home for me and why I felt the need to write this original comment is precisely because I've been struggling with crippling depression for more than 3 years and a half now.
I want to go to film school, move to hollywood, work extremely hard and make the highest quality films i can for decades, until one day i can finally realize mikes dream of having a dark disturbing psychological horror that in the last 15 minutes has an abrupt tonal shift where the football team shows up to kick the ass of the primary antagonist/supernatural force whilst AC/DC plays ending with an 80's style freeze frame on the lead jock after he says "I'm goin ta colleeeeeeeege!"
How about a movie where they find Solomon's Ring and just tell the demon to go away and the rest of the movie is awkward silence. Then it cuts to AC/DC.
@Aria you just gonna ignore the full on grief meltdown that was so real that it shook nearly everyone to their fucking core? You're gonna watch that scene and tell me that wasnt good acting and anyone could do that?
That car scene and the aftermath was the most gut-wrenching and devastating experience I think I've ever had in a cinema. When you hear the mom open the car door and scream. Oh god.
Oooohhhh, I'm guess you're pretty young, yeah? Since A) Adults don't tend to talk about adults w/ kids like they were a different species and B) You censored your swears even though there's nothing preventing you from writing 'fucking pussies'. That aside, considering the lead actress was clearly middle-aged I don't know why your positive this movie couldn't have been geared toward adults vs. teens; not to mention the scenes with teens were the most cringey parts of the movie for me personally.
The Witch would've been improved if the Quaker college football team turned up in the last minute to kick the shit out of Black Philip as well. Just saying.
Dan Harrison King Not all of them are terrible. A few movies actually know how to use them well. For example, The Thing has two jump scares (three if you count the blood test - I don't) but they're actually phenomenally executed and the entire film's cinematography (character entrances from the left from the first shot of the film) and motion of action (likewise, it is mostly left to right throughout the whole film) are subverted in those moments so it isn't like they're sloppily tossed in, not to mention that they aren't edited like most jump scares, which usually involves a quick cut away after the scare happens. The scares are not some spooky noise off screen nor is it just a harmless distraction. I could make a ten or fifteen minute video about just those two jump scares. Jump scares aren't inherently bad, it's just that almost nobody puts any actual craftsmanship into them. Some directors think of how a jump scares may work in the context of a single scene but, like any other scary moment, it has to constructed within the context of the entire film to be any good.
Hoovy Tube That describes both of the jump scares in The Thing, actually. Ithink editing, particularly swift cuts, plays a big part in what makes most jump scares bad.
Dan Harrison King mullholland drive, the thing and other films have meanful/ not cheap jumpscares. Its just when directors cant be fucked trying to genuinelly scare the audience.
I felt like the miniatures were connected to the greek tragedy foreshadowing, in that the characters were destined to die, and that they were railing against fate fruitlessly. So essentially, they are just miniatures, being manipulated by forces they'll never understand.
yeah the miniatures clearly signified agency and control over the events. It ties into the mental illness interpretation really well -- and in the end I think we're supposed to empathize with the son, trying to figure out whether we are the perpetrators or the victims of our tragedies... ... when my dad was fifteen he went driving with some friends. He slid out in the rain and took the head off this fourteen year old girl he barely knew. That girl had three siblings, and her mother outlived all of them... what is grief -- or hell, what is life -- other than railing against fate? And you get the impression that it doesn't matter whether there was ever a demon or not, it doesn't change anything. You're still to blame for what you did.
I had gotten the idea in my head the fate of the family would be shown as miniatures in the end, that the mom was crazy and killed them all and made a diorama of the scene.
Also, during most of the film, it seems like Charlie's death was the result of her brother and mother's choices, but at the end it is suggested that it was due to forces outside of their control - which brings us back to the teacher's question: which is more tragic?
I think Mike went into this movie thinking that it was gonna be one of those "the real demon was grief y'all" type deals, so he wasn't primed for all the cult stuff, which I personally loved
I don't know what you're talking about. Because the real core of the movie is actually trauma and mental illness, passed through and perpetuated by the family. Also how you're helpless in a way to stop gradually turning into your parents or absorbing their trauma and so on. It's made quite clear through the movie, no? I thought the movie was very similar to babadook, thematically I mean. Not much in other aspects
@@Abysia I had the exact opposite experience. I was never able to look at Paimon the same way ever again. *WHAT IS YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL, YOU EVIL FAIRY.*
The whole thing with the miniatures I felt was to parallel how their whole lives are being controlled by the dead mother and her cultist friends, they're all pawns in a game they can't see or comprehend or escape. The movie definitely had a very Greek tragedy feel to it, which I know some people told me they hated, that nothing anyone could have done would have mattered since all the events are set in motion way before the movie even starts, before the main characters are even born. I loved that about it though, makes it way darker on retrospect and connects to the theme of hereditary mental illness being something you can't ever escape.
There’s also the classroom discussion at the beginning of the movie where the teacher asks the students “is it more tragic if characters have a choice or don’t?” It all connects
Me and my brother popped edibles before looking for a popcorn horror movie and ended up watching Hereditary, genuinely the most horrifying 2 hours of my life lol.
I've seen some seriously crazy shit in horror movies, but that decapitation scene and the discovery of the body was done so well that it really messed me up.
As a person who *actually* lived through something extremely similar.... I can tell that no one like me, or anyone who has *ANY* actual experience with such a thing had anything to do with those parts. I'm glad you enjoyed the "Hollywood" bullshit version though, and hope you never have to know the difference.
@@lurker9634 That's correct, but if you *really* want an answer, ask a real question. Not sure how much humor/satire you intended or didn't, but I'll be honest as it's been quite sometime now from the event and it really won't bother me if you want actual details, so long as you're not obviously just trying to piss me off or make a joke of such a serious thing.
About the part with the telephone pole with the sign and it's a convoluted plan, while Peter is in class (I think it's during the 'generic buttshot' scene) the teacher is talking about Greek Tragedies and this exchange occurs: Teacher: So if we go by the rule that the hero is undone by his fatal flaw, what is Heracles’ flaw? Bridget: Arrogance. Teacher: Okay, why? Bridget: Because he literally refuses to look at all the signs that are being literally handed to him the entire play. Teacher: Okay, interesting! So he thinks he has control. But let's all remember: Sophocles wrote the oracle so that it was unconditional. Meaning Heracles never had any choice. Right? So, does this make it more tragic or less tragic than if he did have a choice? Student: Less! Teacher: Okay, why? Student: Because! Teacher: Care to weigh in, Peter? Peter: Um … about which part? Student: I think it's more tragic because if it’s all just inevitable, then that means that the characters had no hope, they never had hope, because they’re just like pawns in this horrible, hopeless machine. One of the powers being attributed to Paimon is 'Knowledge of past and future events' so it could still be possible for him to orchestrate it. And it could also refer to the 'Oracle' in the exchange about Heracles' flaw The Heracles flaw may also call back to Toni Collette's Brother, he didn't have that flaw and knew he couldnt shake free of it like in an horror movie so he killed himself because he saw the signs in time and was able to kill himself before being prisoner of the 'oracle' Ari Aster also seems to like foreshadowing a lot, so it may also just be an excuse for him to use it as much as possible :P
To continue that theme, in Greek mythology, the Fates are literal gods who weave inescapable prophecies. You see the self-fulfilling prophecy from Greek mythology play out in Hereditary because there's nothing the characters can do that ultimately changes the predetermined outcome.
"I literally laughed at every 'scary' scene. All I wanted to do the entire film was go home to play with my new puppy." I am VERY worried about your new puppy.
Daniel Winters Dude me too!!! That exact scene just ruined the scary and terrified mood we were in bro. The tension immediately dissolved and everyone was cracking up!!
I haven't seen this movie, but that ending where the football team shows up and lays waste to the cultists set to AC/DC genuinely sounds amazing to me. I am part of the problem.
Two scenes that I found very scary: 1) When the mother goes into grandmother's studio and in the dark sees someone that looks like grandmother. For the rest of the movie I though there was something in the corner of the cinema. 2) Just after the father is burned it cuts to a shot of the house at night. Hardly noticeable but around the house, in the dark, there are naked people standing. I noticed it and was so scared for the next scene.
towersofgiza so you read the first point and didn't realise i was discussing some movie moments that might have spoilers in them? the video also contains spoilers... this one is all on you, champ
Maria M Yes! I loved that second scene. All through the movie we'd been getting the same establishing shot of the house, so that subtle change wasn't noticed by many people. When I noticed I was SPOOKED.
I do not like horror movies but the second charlie died I was IN. Hearing the screams in the morning is literally the most powerful thing ive ever seen in cinema
I haven't seen it yet, so I'm curious how he wasn't in massive trouble for leaving his dead sister in the car ... & on the road - after driving "under the influence"? How do u even _try_ to justify it?
I liked it quite a bit (surprised me since I watched the review first), but Mike was dead on about the cinematography. What was with that mess? It was so distracting. Almost every shot with two people talking was back-lit. I watched it on a 20 foot screen and could barely make out their faces. One scene in particular scene at the end, Solo, Beckett, and Qi'Ra were facing three different directions on a sunny day and all three were back lit. I mean, really? Really? I liked pretty much everything else though, except atrocity that was Han's last name reveal of course. That was just stupid.
The fact I went to see this in theatres with my ex girlfriend and it is now irrevocably tied to that part of my life just amplifies the sense of dread I get watching this
God, yeah, I first watched this in bed with an ex that I had very strong feelings for. It kind of makes my stomach sink at the idea of watching it again, as good a movie as it was.
@@JobForAMaxboy But its way funnier if she was serious? if its a joke its 100% on them to add a /s, a lol, an emoji, something. Its not on us to assume anything dumb said is said in jest, or at least that there are no people who make funny mistakes.
I’m with jay on this one, I found the movie to be absolutely great. I’m also slightly with mike- I hated watching this with teens sitting on the same row as me and making all kinds of stupid noise throughout the whole film.
I had the opposite - octogenarians asking each other what was happening/why did that happen/who is that happening to at about 120 dBs at 5 minute intervals
I had a group of teens in my screening and one of them started cracking up near the end after some intense moment and that set them all off laughing..They didn't stop giggling the whole last 10 of the movie. I put it down to trying to relieve some of the tension though...Like when something is so intense you have to just laugh? I didn't get too mad at them for that but it ruined the end of the movie a bit
I felt really bad for the father. He was the most normal guy just trying to keep his family together. He was usually nice and caring to everyone and rarely broke down. He didn't deserve what happened to him.
In some interview it has been stared that he is Toni Collete's character's former psychiatrist. Getting romantically involved with a patient is not cool.
He reminded me so much of my own dad, the way he lost his appetite after Ann’s fight against Peter and just stared helplessly at both of them broke my heart
The quick scene of him opening his medication bottle and popping a pill was so absurdly simple and understated yet stuck with me. Look at all that came of his family's "coping mechanisms", while dad just snagged some appropriate meds and kept on keeping on. Imagine off mom and son had done the same, maybe seen a therapist or something while they were at it. Probably reading farrr more into this than intended but I've known enough people who were falling apart mentally yet eschewed the most direct (and probably effective) treatments in favor of unhealthy and ineffectual ones to get something from it.
I’m with Jay on this. It’s a super great movie that has a lot for everyone. The movie’s seeds were planted from the first scene. This movie didn’t swerve the direction out of nowhere. I really really dug it, and once you stew on the movie and see everything the Director was doing from the beginning, you realize it’s all premeditated.
I don't think the ending and tonal shift were alluded to enough. Theres no real indication that logic could be thrown out the window at the end. It was surprising but too jarring imo. I actually don't mind the ending but i wish there was more of a build up to it throughout the movie.
How was there not? Trace the entire plot: Opening shot of the treehouse, established satanic chapel, pan to Peter's room establishing him as the future vessel for Paimon, establish cultists at funeral, show Paimon symbol on post, decapitate Charlie so Paimon can exit, con the mother into performing a seance to have the demon enter the home, kill off each family member one by one, and then take the human form of Peter at the end. It's all there from frame 1.
God, I love this movie. The best horror movies have a strong emotional core, good performances and characters you care about (or can at least relate to), and Hereditary has all that in spades.
Exactly 👍 films like these are the antidote to having nothing but jump scare, 'inspired by real events', worn out franchises or heaps of 'ghost' movies - I'm guessing that a lot of RLM fans appreciate the Hereditarys that stand out for being a real, intelligent films in a sea of jackass-caliber boredom-inducing flotsam 😎
I love this movie but it suffers the same problem as bone tomahawk. It has that moment or element that is so unpleasant, I don’t want to revisit it. The Witch also with the mortar and pestle though that is “easier” to shut out. I get it. Horror. But I want to want to rewatch. Still an amazing movie just one I won’t watch much.
My favourite scene is when the mother floats up to the tree house. Complete silence. Really good moment to just soak in the visuals. Loved the movie, could barely watch though since I'm a big baby when it comes to horror movies
@@shodancat1000 ugh yes, that scene was like the visual representation of a fever dream. I also really love the scene when the son is laying in the bed covered in ants. I love how unforgivingly uncomfortable the movie was
It was creepy in a bad dream sort of way. Like not really understanding what you're seeing, but it happens so quickly and fluidly that it's unsettling.
@@jamiegibson5506 sure, if you look at it from a "haha funny" perspective because you'd prefer over the top orchestral music stings and Baguul busting through the wall screeching like a velociraptor. Real life happens in flat comedy shots and angles, without cinematic embellishments. The detached and emotionless execution of having something completely nightmarish happen (your headless mother floating across the yard), portrayed in an uncaring way without any fucking horror movie trope bells or whistles added is what makes these scenes. It's like witnessing anything utterly traumatic in reality, birds keep chirping and you still feel that pebble in your shoe. Your neighbor on the other side of the building keeps mowing their lawn. The world doesn't adapt and re-write itself around personal tragedy. That is where the flat, undramatic "omg lol funnee" shots come in, it taps into the possible personal experiences of the viewer. But hey if you prefer stretchy face screaming CGI ghost ladies that's cool
I love this movie but scene of corpses flying to tree house was not so scary to me, actually i saw that and thought to myself: "Really? That's scary?" but it's small issue. I found scene with Annie decapitating herself and the way she stares at Peter... Bone-Chilling
The hook is the slow realisation that this family was cursed and that there was absolutely nothing they could do to stop it. They were fated to fulfill the wishes of Paimon. There was no hope. Once you realise that it sets the film up for a second viewing, just to see the level of powerlessness that was present. My initial reaction to the ending was one of frustration at the fact that I thought in some way someone, like Peter, would escape it. This then turned to admiration for not following that trope, and the true horror in knowing that there was no hope whatsoever for this family. Brilliant film.
The one scene that had me holding my breath was when he was laying in bed, and he hears his mother screaming outside. I had the most heavily feeling in my chest during this moment. I ended up pausing the movie to go outside and take a walk. For whatever reason, that’s the one scene that stuck with me the most.
The toys are in the break room in back, to play with, as they wait for customers, whom have a hard time getting to the front counter from all the junk that has been tossed off or over it. The customers then ask, "Hey can you like upgrade this VCR to play 4k disc?" or is it "Hey can you upgrade my VCR to play the tapes in 4k?" ;)
Every decent horror movie nowdays are lauded "best horror movie ever made", and all of them tend to polarize audiences. The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, Get Out - I like all of them, but they're the kind of movies everyone either love or hate.
They tend to feel very flavor of the year and dont tend to have the staying power classics like The Exorcist did. Also worth pointing out a lot of classic horrors like The Shining, The thing, and I believe even the Exorcist werent that popular at release. I could be wrong about the exorcist on that.
Yes. Older horror movies have much more staying power. These newer films are good for a quick energetic fling but then you move on cuz they start going on about their petty drama and it’s like ugh.
I think heriditary has staying power to be honest. It was the first horror film in ages to actually get to me and freak me and cause me unease. The way it's shot along with the fact it can be interpreted a few different way with alot of subtlety can make it last beyond just this year and more of in the ranks of some of the best horror films
Only time will tell if the success-stories from the last 4-5 years will stay, but I wouldn't be surprised. Just think about how we nowdays speak so favorably of pretty much every horror movie from the eightes, even when some of them are cheesy rubbish. I believe The Exorcist divided critics, but it was a massive financial hit, partially thanks to the media circus that appeared in its wake. And I know The Thing was butchered at release. Some of the reviews I've read are plain sad.
Get Out and It Follows were extremely overhyped. I'm still kinda pissed Get Out was nominated for Best Picture. There's been so many more deserving horror films that were never nominated. I'm betting the Academy will gloss over this even though Toni Collette is more than deserving of a Best Actress nomination and Ari Aster should at least get a Best Original Screenplay nod if Jordan Peele was able to win it.
I’m actually glad it fooled General audiences including myself because it surprised me of where it was going next. Like Mike, I though it would be Charlie haunting the family throughout the movie, but it ended up being wildly different
@@SteeZy644 Erm, actually I had the opposite reaction. They foreshadowed way too hard that the grandmother was in a cult that wanted Charlie to have been born a male instead of a female. I actually spent most of the movie thinking "I really hope that the film doesn't end how I think it will, with the boy being possessed by Charlie's ghost because of a satanic ritual." Then, it happened, and I was severely disappointed.
This film actually did have test screenings. Someone who went to one said that the original ending (SPOILERS) had the guy stab out his own eyes at the end, but like 23/25 of the test screeners didn't like that ending, so they changed it.
Stabbing out his eyes would parallel the play they were talking about in the class at the beginning, which also parallels the helpless tragedy of the movie. That would’ve been awesome
Oblivious Reviews I’d agree with that. It started sometime within the last five years and really kicked off with movies like It Follows and The Babadook
Horror movies tend to have a boon period during times of economic certainty and under conservative stewardship of the government. This are by no means definitive measures but this phenomenon has been documented and written about at length. Economic displacement is obviously worrisome for folks and I doubt that needs an explanation but conservative politicians are more likely to stoke the flames of social anxiety about by antagonizing for brownie points which causes unrest. To give a recent example of that look to around 2015 when transgender issues started hitting the mainstream. You'd think that transgender folks just popped out of the aether and started walking into public toilets in the nude. Now during the Obama presidency there were a lot of gains for the transgender community that didn't warrant any mainstream attention until then. Why? Obergefel v. Hodges was decided. Couldn't effectively use that as a social issue to draw out the vote because, well, a Supreme Court ruling is pretty final. Hence comes a whole new set of made up social anxieties to rile people up. Even though we never needed laws before and we all knew that transgender people existed for the better part of a century suddenly there's a whole new set of concerns regarding transgender people like using the restroom or getting birth certificates changed. Again, this was all a addressed by Obama earlier in his tenure and nobody gave a shit. Creating a bad guy like that for somebody to beat up is a lot more effective for getting people to vote than pointing to vague numbers that say our economy is bad. This cultural anxiety creates a new source of worry that can be used in film from the perspective of the majority as well as that of the targeted minority.
The miniature thing points to the fact that the family has been watched from the outside by this cult for years and years. These horrific traumas (suicide etc) being orchestrated by granny herself and her friends following the progress. This is underlined further by scenes of the family members literally being watched by strangers (at the funeral, at school, outside the house, inside the house). I would love for Mike and Jay to do a re-view of this one in the future. It is close to a masterpiece in my opinion, and one of the few horror movies that actually terrified me as an adult.
Thls movie had some bone chilling scenes. It genuinely reminded me of seeing The Shining for the first time. It combined the sort of disgusting, graphic stuff with psychological terror really well. I don't wanna think about the ending which is a good sign. Everything from the kid being sent home from school to the end was disturbing and feels so vivid in my memory.
I don't think Charlie was as innocent as we think. I interpreted it as Paimon was already possessing Charlie but because she was a female he was unhappy and needed a male host. So when Peter was frantically driving her to the hospital, Paimon was already aware of the pole being on the road they were driving on and stuck Charlie's head out the window to be decapitated as part of the ritual to ultimately possess Peter. What do yall think?
Well, you said it yourself, that's Paimon acting through Charlie. The only who time I knew we heard the real Charlie is during the seance when she talks through her mother. She sounds like a completely normal girl then, very different from when she was alive.
Yeah, he meekly tries to keep the family together even as every other member appears to be insane, and even when there's clearly all sorts of satanic stuff going on he just ends up seeming 'tired of all this shit'. It's a limited but important role as the kind of centre of the family, the one normal member. I thought Byrne was great.
*Spoilers* Yeah, he also plays the role of the "normal" person and skeptic. He's not directly affected by the hereditary curse (until the very end). Thus he doesn't see the supernatural plot against them even after it should be obvious even to him that something is very, very wrong (e.g. after the Charlie seance scene; his son breaking his face on his desk shortly after his mother-in-law and daughter died in quick succession; the corpse in the attic). He's useless/clueless and it enhances the sense of isolation felt by the rest of the family; Annie in particular is unable to make herself understood.
I read online that he is a therapist by profession. They cut that explaining that detail from the final movie, but it explains how he is trying to bring stability to all remaining people in the family even though everyone is going insane. He struggles with going along with the ritualistic ways to solve grief (doing seance and stuff) in order for Annie to get some closure and trying to salvage the relationship between Peter and her mother out of concern for Peter. In the end Paimon lights him on fire because in trying to stabilize the mental condition of Peter and Annie he makes them both less susceptible to possession by Paimon. I really dig how destroying the mental stability of Peter is explained as good plot device because it makes him more susceptible to possession by Paimon, the ultimate goal of the cult.
To go off the father being the straight man in this, you also need to look at it as just a movie about a stressed family dynamic: he is the silent, authority figure that everyone relies on but he has no one to rely on, himself. His role as father and husband is to be someone for Annie to push away and someone to mediate between Annie and Peter. He is also grieving for his dead daughter, his son who is having all these issues, and his wife literally going insane. He's losing everyone around him and they're all looking to him for support but he gets nothing from them back.
when I go see a movie (particularly horror), I let myself become completely emotionally vulnerable to the plot. I want to give it every opportunity to scare me senseless. this movie did it perfectly. nothing felt like a stupid decision just to further the plot. a lot of people say it drags in the middle, but I dont think that's a fair statement. this movie turns grief into a different type of horror to face, and then returns to terror. hereditary really got under my skin and hit raw nerves I have from my own family. if you classify a good horror film as having jump scares (like that bullshit Sinister movie) then you aren't appreciating what horror is. its not about being startled for a brief minute, it's about an attack on your psyche.
Krista Caswell absolutely. Fuck, the screams when she saw Charlie in the car... I literally fucking vomited. The grief in there was so fucking raw. So. Fucking. Raw. Reminded me of when I had to give a baby CPR.
The only thing I thought that the family did that was a "stupid decision" was that they always forget Charlie's epi pen. But then again, part of the movie is about how the family has no real choice over their own fate, which is likely why they always forget to bring it.
I'm with Jay on this one. The unpredictable nature of the plot kept me going. Towards the end when Toni Collette basically figures out what's going on, it lost some of its momentum. Still a great movie though.
Fun fact, originally in the ending the son gouged out his eyes but in the test screenings (which did indeed happen) the test audience thought it was too graphic
As far a miniatures go I definitely saw it as her way to cope (she did that one of her daughters head on the road) but also since there was so much imagery tying them to a miniature (the opening obviously and stuff like the framing of those big room shots that stayed still) I also felt like it represented this question of whether they were even responsible for their fate, just seemed like a lot was happening to them and felt like a outside force paving the way for the family.
it also was used as a story telling tool instead of flashbacks, I kinda felt they were more for the filmmaking than the plot and thought they were a little too external but I'm starting to come around a bit
Actually I took it as the cult succeeded in putting the demon into the daughter, but she didn't suffice, because the demon wanted a male body. So the sister was just temporary & the brother's the permanent possession. And Jay's right about those shitty reviews..lmao, this movie was dreadful, creepy & definitely scary.
I'll confess to struggling with this review after the word 'bored' found its way into one of Mike's sentences. The film evoked a number of mental states in me, but boredom was not among them.
I’m curious why people watch these guys? I just clicked on this video by chance, and they have 1million subscribers, but they have nothing real or insightful to say?
@@Candyqueen3211 because most of the content is funny, when it comes to the stuff like this its mostly hearing their opinions on the movie or getting an idea of a movie and what it is about if you haven't seen it. Or in a lot of cases people state their opinions and talk to one enough saying why they agree or disagree with what was said by Jay and Mike. Also to talk crap about Mike, which is the norm.
23:05 not sure if someone has already pointed this out in the comments but the miniature house does provide context to the movie that the actual house and the people in it are monitored by the cult and a lot of events that happened are pre meditated by the cult and aided by the demon. It's like Toni is working on the miniature not knowing that she herself is part of a bigger set being played by the cult.
Spoilers The reason Peter is chosen because Paimon needed a strong male host. He was being bred through Charlie until Peter could properly be the vessel. The hereditary aspect is the family being cursed. I mean the first shot is in looking in Peters room. Peter is Paimons puppet. Joan’s two sons “drowned” because they weren’t strong enough for Paimon.
the way it works is that it (paymen) can only travel into someone at extreme weakness, and can only leave its current host through decapitation. watching this again knowing this makes it scarier as when someone is decapitated it shows paymen coming for whoever’s next
Someone should tell Mike that the kid on the left with the man bun he was smoking with under the bleachers is naked in the end in the tree house ritual.
Haven't you noticed how they never really hug or kiss anymore? And the background never really changes as often as it used to. Dead giveaways. Plus, they admitted it on an old blog post.
I saw it on a Tuesday night at 11. There were a total of 8 people in the theatre, and it was the best cinematic experience I've ever had. I was terrified by the end of it. And once the credits rolled, we all sat and tried to process what had just happened. The workers came in to clean the theatre before any of us moved. It was clear we were all in awe of what we'd just seen. 10/10, easily. Though I wish it had ended before Joan explained everything for us because it wasn't that hard to follow, but I guess you have to explain things for your audience just in case.
Maia Gaia try watching it alone as the only person in the theater in a nearly abandoned ultra 80s lookin multiplex theater in a dying mall that you have intense nostalgia for, seriously fucked me up.
Maia Gaia oh God it was really disturbing, I distinctly remember during the scene where Peter's reflection was smiling at him, when that sound of Paimon/Charlie clicking her tongue played, it sounded like it was right next to me. That heart rate promotional stunt didn't lie.
I just watched it alone with headphones on at 1 A.M. with all the lights out. Oooooooo I’m not sleeping tonight. I also kinda wish they hadn’t had Joanie explain the ending to us, all I needed to see was someone putting the crown on Peter’s head. I still fucking loved the movie, it messed me up in the best way. I just got jump scared by my computer’s fan making a buzzing sound next to me while typing this. Fuck, movie really got me good.
Loved the camera work in this movie. More than anything, the camera work and framing really set the tone of this and draws you into it. The acting is also top-notch, and it's just so different that it stands out as a real gem in the genre.
The theme of the miniatures is reflected in how the grandmother manipulated everyone and put them in place and how they didn't even realize that they had no choice
That scene with asking her husband to burn the book: She isn't being "crazy": at that point she has figured it out. The problem is that because of the family dynamic, her husband wasn't involved with the process of learning, so to HIM she is acting "crazy". And that is the horror: Everything she is saying in that scene is correct, but, he doesn't believe her.
I took her husband catching on fire as if she was having a delusion and set him on fire where in her mind she was arguing and making a point, but in reality she was soaking him in something flammable and lighting him on fire.
Just saw this movie, still under the emotional effect of it... I'm blown away. I really don't get where Mike is coming from on this one. This movie deserve some real credit. By the time the creepy imagery sets in, you are so distraught that you are just ripe for the taking. I watched it with my little brother who's used to fast paced movies and explosions everywhere. It was a joy to see him really get into it and be taken by it's emotional resonance.
I loved the movie. The only minor gripe I have with it is that Milly Shapiro looks like she could be Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne’s kid but Alex Wolff doesn’t. But he was so good in the movie that I don’t even mind. Everything was fantastic.
laaate reply but its theorised he was a child of rape co-ordinated by the demon grandmother and was therefore half spanish thats why she says "i never wanted you" in her nightmare
The scenes of him in school looked stupid - I don't care enough to actually check the actors real age, but he looks about 30, seeing him sat in class was just dumb.
Finally got around to watching this and this has to be the scariest movie I can remember ever seeing. And I'm 47 and can't remember ever being scared of a movie. Creeped out occasionally, but rarely affected. Granted, I've been sick for a few days, but damn, this one got to me.
I love how poignantly the horror is projected from actors' reactions in this film: their countenances, their movements, their eyes. We experience their horror.
Hereditary is one of my favorite movies, and requires multiple viewings. You catch new things every time. Having said that, the first time I watched it, the scene with the telephone pole disturbed me down to my core, and that was mainly because of Alex Wolf's brilliant acting in the immediate aftermath. When he pulled into the driveway I had to stop it. I had no intention of continuing the movie because I didn't think I'd emotionally be able to handle what came next. A few days later I continued it, and I'm glad I did. Most disturbing movie ever made in my opinion.
