Hereditary - Movie Review

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Chris Stuckmann reviews Hereditary, starring Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd. Directed by Ari Aster.

[TheSuperNats]

Toni Collette’s rage face at her son during the dinner scene was one of the scariest things in the movie. She was excellent.

[karenj]

You know a horror movie is good when you want to see it again ....but you don't.

[gskate]

The scene when the brother just gave up and went to bed after the event was so hard to watch... just pure horror.

[killingthemood]

The counseling scene. The dinner table scene. The mourning her daughter scene. The burn the book scene. Everything in between...
*TONI COLLETTE WAS BRILLIANT*

[sydnaps]

The transition of Tonis face from frightened to in a trance in the scene where the father is burning. *chefs kiss*

[John_Notmylastname]

The scene were she was crying over her daughter was heartbreaking. I felt her pain and cried with her. Her pain was guttural and felt genuine. It was one of those performances were if it wasn’t good it would be way over the top but she nailed it. Her mental state and pain was felt throughout the film.

Awesome stuff.

[justanothergoat]

She didn’t get the Oscar nomination and I’m honestly so disappointed

[stevenbrooks]

The fact that Toni Collette was not even nominated for this performance is one of the biggest Oscar tragedies in history. I was absolutely astounded by what she did on screen. Not many actors could pull off what she did with such conviction.

[itsdatanotdata]

Toni Collette definitely deserves an Oscar. Her wailing when she is grieving for her daughter was intense and raw. Very rare a movie upsets me after I see a movie. Awesome movie!

[WordUnheard]

Go into this movie completely blind, and spoiler-free. It makes the horrifying moments in this movie all the more traumatic when you see them.

[gaspee]

Damn movie got me checking my closet for grandmas

[Vorusen]

They swapped jump scares for truly genuine scares.

[zackzaharko]

This was arguably the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. Yes, I have seen Irreversible, Deliverance, Exorcist, etc. but it was something about this movie that was just awfully disturbing. Unbelievable movie experience

[noyou]

I watched it stoned and now i have an irrational fear of sticking my head out of the window of a moving car

[jmd]

Time to watch a comedy after this one. Good god.

[samnowland]

One of the scariest things about hereditary was that when something shocking happened, whatever it was, you felt like it was happening to you. It felt incredibly real.

[Skylerknowsphins]

This movie was fucking terrifying. But I really wanna see Chris pick everything apart and put it in his own words about everything that happened. so please do a spoiler review

[joechrow]

Sickest scene sequence i have ever watched...The psycholigical part of it was Just as unsettling...Laying in bed with headless sister in backseat of car...Mother wakes up to go to the car and that is what she saw...And The cut away camera to the head on side of road...My GOD

[ErinJeanette]

The scariest part was at the very beginning when Annie turns the light off in the room and sees the faintest shadow of her mom in the room. It made me so sick to my stomach and still does.

[desdemonab]

I am 66 years old and I am very jaded when it comes to horror films. This movie is by far the most terrifying movie I have ever seen in my life - nothing else comes close, and I saw The Exorcist and The Omen in the theater as a young woman. They pale in comparison to this.