Book Review: Hereditary (2018)

[Deleted member 604]

Title: Hereditary

Tagline: Every family tree hides a secret.

Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Ari Aster

Cast: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd, Mallory Bechtel, Brock McKinney, Jake Brown, Morgan Lund, Zachary Arthur, Austin R. Grant, Gabriel Monroe Eckert

Release: 2018-06-04

Runtime: 127

Plot: When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

 

[Deleted member 604]

I watched it yesterday and I have to admit it does have a few scary bits in it. But I don't know if I should bow down and accept the bewildered ending or try to work out the need, the logic behind it and the intense ichor in it just to provide a male host for a demon/spirit called Paimon.
I find myself asking the question was it all really necessary and what happens next.

Paimon finally has a male host so what next...

I'll let my fellow Litopian's watch and decide for themselves.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Very nasty. Like a new and different take on Rosemary's Baby. I see what you mean @RainbowNerdAlix. Desperate measures for desperate times. What is the desperate wider 'problem' the coven is trying to solve.

 

[HDKeller]

You guys are braver than I am. I can't watch horror. I don't need any more fuel for this crazy brain of mine.

 

[Deleted member 604]

After I watched it. I phoned @Tim James and slept with the light on that night. When Annie cuts off her own head with the wire/string from the piano while she’s levitating in the air. It was scary but looking back now it was bizarre. And what really annoyed me was the story had no resolution whatsoever, just a really baffling ending.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

You guys are braver than I am. I can't watch horror. I don't need any more fuel for this crazy brain of mine.

I have my limits. Ghost stories, yes. Body horror; vile, crass or both. Gore. No. 'The Human Centipede?' NOOOOO. 'Saw'? NOOOOO. Don't want those in my head.

 

[Emurelda]

I have my limits. Ghost stories, yes. Body horror; vile, crass or both. Gore. No. 'The Human Centipede?' NOOOOO. 'Saw'? NOOOOO. Don't want those in my head.

Wot she said!

If I'm feeling really really brave.... I'll read the spoiler synopsis and be satisfied with that. No thank thee on the visual.

 

[AgentPete]

Hello @Deleted member 604,

We are changing the status of this ticket to closed as we have not heard back from you in 7 days.