3:16 “I’ve always wanted to be in a horror movie.” I honestly find it heartwarming that she not only got her wish, but also that the movie she played in ended up being a hit.
I feel the worst for Steve. Everyone is a victim in this, but he’s just a dad struggling to keep his family together, completely ignorant of the evil attacking his family.
I’m actually impressed by how accurate King Paimon’s powers are portrayed in the movie. He prefers to inhabit the body of men, inflicts severe torment on his victims which includes recreating traumatic events, and creates horrifying visions and nightmares. Ari Aster definitely did some research on the Ars Goetia before making this movie.
@robotictophat8331 you're acting like it isn't practiced till this day of age still.....nice move with the use of "mythology" doesn't change anything unfortunately for you. That strategy bugs off the fools so easily. Probably worked on everyone you knew growing up.
God the scene after Peter comes home with a decapitated Charlie in the back , and the next morning the mom is talking to the dad about going to the store and it just builds up the intense moment as she is getting ready to leave to only find out her daughter is in the back seat dead and headless . That scene haunted me along with the mom crying for days and days with a real hurt in the heart. That scene played in my head for DAYS .
The scene where the mom was possessed and hitting her head on the attic door repeatedly while Peter was screaming to her and calling her “mommy” still haunts me ever since I’ve watched the film
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are interested in a specific type of movie, and that is *not* movies that normal people go to see. These are people who can eat caviar like we eat *peanut butter.*
Watch the show "United States of Tara." Toni Colette plays a woman with 5 or 6 distinct personalities, and she has a different face for each one. When something happens to trigger her D.I.D., you can tell which alter is taking over just by the way Ms. Colette looks at the camera.
Everyone always talks about Charlie not being more careful when eating the chocolate cake that may or may not have nuts in it. The cake didn’t have nuts though. In an earlier scene before Charlie is having reactions, you can see a group of people cutting nuts with a knife. They use the same knife to cut the cake. Cross contaminating.
Also there is a theory that everything in the film is being influenced by the cult and paranormal forces. The lightpost that charlies head is decapitated on has the cult logo on it.
Doesn't mean that the cake couldn't still have had nuts in it, tho. Either way, it wouldn't have been her fault, seeing as she was 13 and didn't need to be there in the first place.
I mean, there’s so much garbage funneled into it that people don’t really give it the time of day The Bye-Bye Man, Unfriended, Smiley, Truth or Dare. All of those suck.
i’m sure you already know this but the position that she’s in during that scene is the same bowing position her and all those people are in at the end in the treehouse :) one of my favorite foreshadowing moments in this entire movie
That scream that the mom did when she discovered Charlie’s corpse... that scared me the most. The pure emotion of grief and agony... I had to turn the movie off. I think it even gave me a fear of screams like that, which is something I didn’t have before. So yeah- kudos to that actress.
I've actually heard someone react to their child's death IRL, and the acting in that scene was indistinguishable from how she reacted. That freaked me out
I haven't seen the film (horror film pussy), and I was watching this vid, and had to pause when I heard it. I don't know why, but Collette's wail just then was so unbelievably evocative of the most agonising grief possible. Freaked me out a bit.
When Peter starts calling Annie “mommy” at the very end, that is definitely the smallest detail that affected me as much as it did. Ever since the sleepwalking incident, he hasn’t trusted his mother and felt like she doesn’t care about him. And after the horrific events of the movie, and them being angry at each other, all he wants is for Annie to just care about and love him. So when everything goes wrong, and Annie is possessed and chasing him, he calls her “mommy” because he thinks that the last time she loved him was when he was young enough to call her that. That shits just devastating to me.
@@Gobbostopper Yeah that's what I thought too. That is had more to do with him regressing. I went through something really bad and during it when I was crying I was asking for my "mommy" even though I was 30 years old.
The mother's raw scream on the floor after Charlie's death was quite extraordinary. It was so emotional it almost felt wrong to watch it. It was far too private for my eyes to see.
When Peter just DIVES straight out the window zero hesitation I was like that’s the most realistic reaction I’ve even seen in a horror movie just G T F OOOOO!
Literally! In so many horror movies the protagonist simply stands there in shock, or even stops running or fleeing. Having a protagonist actually attempt to survive was a real breath of fresh air in the horror genre
can i just say the part when peter is hiding in the attic while annie/paimon is banging her head on the door, and he’s like “mommy please stop”...that always gets to me :(((
I felt so horrible for Peter all through this movie. Like I was disappointed how he was negligible with Charlie and let her eat something with nuts while he was getting high... But I guess you can't really expect too much of teenagers. But just the pure emotion he conveyed. Sitting in the car after the decapitation and after his mother screams at him at the dinner table notably. Also, the scene where his mother says she never wanted to be his mother, omg his faces were incredible :( (I know that scene was a "dream" though)
@@Batkhuyag1300 His mum made him take her, and she was 13. If my 5 year old students know to ask what's in food before eating it and are responsible enough to carry their own epipen, then a girl nearly thrice their age definitely should be able to do it.
I love how the trailer for "Hereditary" managed to convey the film's creepy tone while being intentionally misleading to avoid spoilers. As I watched Charlie's funeral scene, it occurred to me that I had seen that moment in the advertising, but I had assumed it was part of the grandmother's funeral. Only in hindsight did I realize 1) Annie's devastated sobbing made more sense in response to Charlie's death than to Ellen's, and 2) Charlie was nowhere to be seen among the attendees. The twist was pure brilliance!
Yeah, whoever did the trailer deserves a LOT of credit. It's more common to spoil some of the good parts. They made the movie look interesting without ruining what the movie was about.
THIS is how marketing should be done. I'm sick of trailers basically showing the best parts of the movie, especially the jumpscares, dampens the whole experience
as someone with a younger sister who has food allergies, the scene where charlie has a allergic reaction (and subsequently gets decapitated) is genuinely horrifiying to me
you should really go watch this movie on your own. it makes for an amazing viewing experience. i was lucky enough to not have this movie spoiled beforehand and watching the kill count made this movie so much better
Dude for real. This scene was the scene that actually scared the most shit out of me, like I legit had to turn on the lights to walk to the bathroom at night cause I was so chicken from that scene
@@tommyblade8093 deadass same i haven’t seen the actual movie and this shit fucked me up especially since i clicked on this video like it was going to be a movie like get out or the one worth the double families
Hereditary was spoiled for me, and it STILL made me feel absolute dread when watching Charlie's death. The mom's scream when finding Charlie is just so gut-wrenching and unforgettable. I admit, I haven't been able to sit through the whole thing because it makes my stomach turn, not from gore, but from how dreadfully sad it is. No other film has that effect on me. Absolutely amazing storytelling
I started watching it earlier, but had to turn it off after Charlie. I have a very strong stomach, I usually love blood and gore, but seeing her head was far too much for me to handle.
That death was spoiled for me too when I saw the clip on Twitter. But it was because of that clip that I decided to watch the movie because I thought that was such a crazy scene and got intrigued. It still hit pretty hard when I saw it in context
@@quintoofidiots5331 Yeah same. I loved Midsommar so figured Hereditary wouldn’t be a bad choice for another horror movie. I got to about Charlie’s death and went “Welp! This isn’t the movie for me :)”
@@johnkittz how about letting people say and comment whatever they want without calling it cringe ? It's the internet, nobody asked you. let people enjoy things
@@Maria-hw1uq Because he's an edgelord, and he can't feel happiness without bringing others down. Some people don't know how to live without perpetual finger wagging.
11:25 You can see a chalk board in Joan's backseat after she just went shopping, showing that it was new and had no connection to her "grandson" as she later claims.
@@Gloria-qj6ot She hasn't, that's the point. She claims in the movie that it was a toy of her dead grandson, but she legit just bought it. It's just another hint that she and the cult are manipulating the family.
@@konstance13 I have been reading a lot about the movie and this is the first time I see someone pointing that out XD I also love finding little details with every rewatch/discussion lol
When I saw Hereditary in theatres, I can distinctly remember a gradual wave of gasps when people started to notice Annie on the wall. I wholeheartedly believe it is the standout shot of the film.
I thought the first time they used that tactic with Ellen in the dark room towards the beginning was scarier. It was so easy to miss, I got full body goosebumps like I’ve never experienced in a movie. I kinda felt when they used that again with Annie at the end, it was more expected and might’ve hung on a little too long. Still created wicked tension.
i showed this movie to my dad's girlfriend and she didn't notice annie at all at first 😂😂 i was like "did you see the mom in the corner?" and she was like "WHAT rewind it!!"
I am really mad at myself now for thinking "eh I can deal with spoilers" because that first kill gave me about the same reaction. actually had to take a break from the video just to process it, it was a real gut punch.
every time i watch it i just feel so awful for the dad especially. imagine how trapped he feels?? he’s stuck in the middle of his family having breakdowns and slowly becoming insane. i would feel so fucking hopeless
I really am surprised that more people haven’t mentioned him, his character made me sad and it’s tragic to think about everything going on around him along with his death. To me his character seemed to portray a more silent grief, and watching the scene where he’s taking Peter home where he begins to cry in the car made me feel awful :( all the actors in this movie did a wonderful job imo
@@woah0449 yeah i agree. it’s vv scary seeing everyone you love mentally break down and even die when there’s nothing you can do. the scene where he cried really got me. but yeah, all the actors did a nice job :-)
Seeing the Graham family fall apart over grief, anger, frustration, and fear is just so devastating to me. They try their hardest to find a way to cope but instead a cult just manages to get a demon to possess the son.
6:33 I've never had any allergies, but as a person who was hospitalized on 7 separate occasions before middle school because I kept developing pneumonia from my asthma, I wanna take a second to recognize how absolutely honestly the nervous little "it's hard to breathe" from Charlie is delivered. The little sway, the timid voice, the way she seems to lack perspective on how her health weighs against the anxiety of causing a disruption. Perfect.
I remember seeing the part where Charlie's head comes off in the car and my heart had never sunk further in my life, it legitimately horrified me, as did the rest of the movie, and while it's not my favorite horror movie it is definitely one of, if not the scariest one I've seen
My uncle almost died that way as a kid. He was hanging his head out the window of my grandpa's car and a tire blew, sending grandpa swerving onto the shoulder and hitting the support structure of an overhanging road sign. My other uncle grabbed the first uncle and pulled him inside the window before the car swerved into the ditch. He still hit the support pole with part of his head, but he only got a minor concussion and a penny sized wound where bone was visible
This movie made me cry like a child. Annie's cry over Charlie rock me to my core. Took me a while to recover. I couldn't stop thinking of my own son. Easily the best horror film in a long time. Didn't know if she was truly losing her mind due to a combination of mental illness and grief.
@@abidubsprodection485 it's not that scary tbh it has good jumpscares and builds the tension beautifully. OP said it's SCARRING, and it really is. You might think about this movie now and then, that's for sure.
The scariest part of the film for me was Annie's mum standing in the corner of her room. At first it's just a good old spooky appearance, but as the story evolves that mental image of her just becomes so much more terrifying. It's like if you sat at a park bench and had a chat with a stranger, only to find out later they were a serial killer...
I was 17 when I watched it in 2020,and boy I was hella scared to the point where walking alone made me uncomfortable it was really scary I didn't sleep much and latterly told my brother if I could sleep with him
I wonder if this means we might see a kill count for Midsommar soon, since it's the same director with similar themes. Either way, I'm glad to see Hereditary still getting love 2 years later!
I first watched this Kill Count and reacted minimially to this, but upon rewatching it tonight, the headbutting the attic door was just terrifying. Like, it straight up looked like something else was in control.
My girl always fell asleep when we’d watch movies. So the night we sat down for hereditary I was all on my own in the second half. Sht was spooky as hell.
I love this new genre of horror, I'm tired of all the cheesy pop ups and cringe CGI kills. This is truly heart wrenching and leaves you anxious afterwards. The acting and set ups in this movie are perfect and it's impossible to hate on a film like this.
Right? There's a level of psychological horror to it and I'm here for it! Horror movies, for a good amount of time, have all left me feeling like "Well... Why didn't they just-" and try to apply logic to it. I cannot stand movies where I'm left off with a similar thought of "Why tf did that chick/dude open the door in the middle of nowhere WELL aware that NO ONE is coming for them until x pm?" This movie, while logic can be applied to it, doesn't really make me feel like I'm watching some dumb paranormal movie:) This had me feeling anxious and I haven't felt like this for a horror movie in a long time! XD
If I made a movie and James was in it he would be the Randy character who knows all the rules. Maybe everytime he comes across a dead body he’s like “oh god another one?! That makes three!!”
The behind the scenes stuff about That Scene genuinely helped me feel better about something that left me depressed for weeks after first seeing it. Genuinely thank you James.
Honestly I can’t watch those scenes when the mom finds Charlie’s corpse again, the anguish she feels is just too convincing and it makes me feel so uncomfortable. Reminds me of when I used to go through massive panic attacks. This movie was so expertly crafted.
Fun detail that Charlie was buried in a light blue casket while light Blue is the colour used when a boy is born reflecting both that her grandmother wanted her to be a boy and that the colour used for birth is now used for death.
Also, Paimon is most powerful when possessing a younger male. Paimon was possessing Charlie, who is female where Paimon is less powerful. More symbolism of male birth!
This is why I never take the Oscars or Golden Globes seriously. They have a negative bias towards horror movies and always seem to exclude them. Hereditary EASILY should have recieved multiple Oscar nominations, yet was snubbed in every category. Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe AND Robert Pattinson were robbed of acting nominations. Essie Davies was magnificent in The Babadook, but was also omitted. Movies such as The Witch (whilst not loved by everyone), were expertly and uniquely crafted and directed but were snubbed by almost every major award ceremony. Kinda sad that some of these cinematic masterpieces don't get the recognition they deserve, and are only seen as "cheap jumpscare flicks"
This is why Oscars and Golden Globes are so biased. They do not give credit to movies that deserve the credit regardless of genre. It is sad when horror movies, especially movies like Hereditary, do not get recognition simply because horror movies are viewed as nothing more than cheap flicks without substance. Yet these kind of horror movies go beyond the stereotypical route a lot of horror movies go through. The acting is superb and the themes are actually deep and mature. Shame really.
If these movies came out in the 70s they would have won many Oscars, but in this new day and age the Oscars hates horror and just about any genre that involves fiction in favor of boring real life-like drama movies.
Charlie’s death shocked me and my dad while watching. I’m so glad I didn’t have that spoiled for me before seeing it the first time. It definitely wouldn’t of hit the same. The silence was so… silent afterwards
Dude, your jokes have helped me cope with the trauma that this film has burned into my retinas. I haven’t been able to sleep for a couple days after a double feature of Hereditary and Midsommar. The Paimon word play had me actually laughing out loud 😂
I love the reoccurring symbol that was on grandma's necklace and etched on the pole on the highway. It is the real life symbol of Paimon the king, not just something they made up for the movie, and anyone who happened to know about Demonology might recognize it and immediately know that the grandmother was a demon worshipper. It's a cool detail.
Cool tips: Paimon is depicted holding three severed heads of women, which are accomplished with the mother, grandmother, and charlie. The grandmother's head was missing when discovered and the moment the mother's head hit the ground was when Paimon could finally enter the body.
Toni Collette had told her agent that she didn't want to do any more heavy, dark films and only wanted to do comedies, but she loved the Hereditary script so much she couldn't turn it down. Both Alex Wolff and Milly Shapiro attended Professional Children's School, and already knew each other before the film. Alex Wolff said that Gabriel Byrne is one of his favorite people he's ever gotten to work with. Toni Collette and Alex Wolff share a birthday (November 1).
Annie's death scene was the scene that disturbed me the most with the rest of the scenes (the decapitation, naked people, annie banging her head on the ceiling) made me laugh because of how uncomfortable and scared I was, but in her death scene I couldn't muster a laugh, the facial expressions she made were of fear, pain and horror, she was doing it slowly, like trying to hold back cutting her own head of but then it goes faster and faster and faster like she couldn't hold back anymore or that she gave up
When I was a movie theater worker, this movie played. Whenever I was helping out with closing, the ending would freak me out. Along when I walk home, I felt like I just came out of a nightmare.
When I say this movie is a miserable watching experience I mean it in the most positive way I can articulate. It is dreadfully beautiful in all of the worst ways and unbelievably well made. Feels like one of those movies you get once a decade or so. With all that being said I would rather watch anything than this movie again.
Exactly! The trailer made no indication it ready about the brother even a fraction of the amount that it actually read. The trailers had the wife & I completely believing that the sister was going to be the main character & focus if the majority of the movie... In a more physical manner mind you haha
HEREDITARY impacted me in a way no other film (let alone a horror film) ever has. It's one of those rare films that absolutely disturbs and terrifies me like no other. *That bit* in the middle was genuinely one of the most distressing things I've seen my life. But, as well as being insanely terrifying, HEREDITARY has a surprising symbolic and emotional core, displaying a family who becomes possessed with dysfunction and grief. A true horror Masterpiece. And if you're reading this before watching the video, I urge you to watch the film first, it's really worth it. The emotions the film evokes are best experienced when you have no clue what will happen.
It impacted me too. I watched it a month or two after my grandma passed away. Seeing grief and anguish put to film this convincingly was amazingly disturbing. Second watch I was fine, I watched it again to prove to myself I could. Seriously superb films you have to watch blind.
The only movie that did that was one of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Edit: Another movie that may do that is the fourth kind, which I have yet to watch. Just search it up. It has real footage. “I thought it was just an owl. It’s not an owl.” NvM Edit: wrong movie
I actually like it. Remember the Final Destination kill count with the roller coaster. When the crash happens, the toy rollercoaster was broken. He pays real attention to details
When I first watched this film I accidentally made it even more terrifying. Turns out the brightness settings on my TV were too dark so when you are meant to see the image of the grandma before Annie turns on the light, Charly before her head turns into the ball, Annie floating in the the corners of the room, or the naked people in the doorway all I could make out were vague silhouettes meaning my imagination was able to run wild. Everything from after Steve burns is the most scared I've been watching a movie in years
Idk man, her floating and banging her head on the ceiling upside down and sawing through her own throat while looking directly into the eyes of her child are pretty bad too.
I just saw a TikTok of the dinner scene and someone said that she deserved an Oscar and a reply said that she didn’t because all she did was yell and that acting was easy, sad that some people just do t know how hard it is to act that well
This horror movie hurt me, and that's why it's my favorite. Also of interest is that Charlie, Annie, and Ellen all having their heads cut off ties into Paimon's imagery, and one of Peter's friends is seen in the treehouse at the end as part of the cult.
I decided to watch it one night. I knew next to nothing about this flick. Been a horror addict for over thirty years. One of the best horror movies of the last thirty years...if not THE best.
I adore horror movies, and I've never really been bothered by their gore, acting, or special effects....Until THIS movie, oh my GOD, did this one actually make me stop breathing a few times in shock. I am so glad you did a kill count of it, it needs more praise!
I swear to Christ after watching this movie I walked around shellshocked for like 3 days. I was having a night in drinking and smoking weed and we put this on and I just had no idea what I was in for
guys i can’t watch the rest of this kill count. i haven’t seen this movie but i legitimately shit my pants when i heard the clucking after she was dead. i’m leaving boys.
Charlie's death actually made my mouth drop. That's the first time in a long while that a movie actually shocked me. I had the same reaction as James really: "Holy Shit"
Movies like this one is why I can't take the Oscars seriously. If they can't show respect for a genre as widely beloved as horror then they can kiss my horror loving ass.
I mean there’s tons of horrific gut wrenching scenes that stuck with me, but one I don’t see people talk about is when she is grieving and said “I just want to die.” Having felt this way and still feeling this, I’ve said the exact same thing in the way she said it, though about different stuff. This hit me so hard and was just so accurate that I didn’t even feel like I was watching a movie. I truly believe Toni Colette is the best actress of all time.
the way the small phrases sever all the connections together makes me acknowledge everything in this movie with a completely different interpretation 😭😭😭
Ari: *spends years building up the full story, spends half a year working through shots to produce an incredible film* The makers of the Conjuring universe: ooky spooky nun, I like that idea
It is absolutely criminal that this film didn’t receive a nomination, the cast is near perfect with Toni Collete giving performance of a lifetime and Alex Wolfe as a great side role. The set is amazing and only adds to the terrifying atmosphere. Criminally underrated
