HEREDITARY (2018) - Movie Review

[AdamFishkin]

Saw it yesterday. What struck me as the secret ingredient is its empathy: the horror works because one understands the characters' uphill efforts to stay true to themselves (and sane) amidst the terrible cause and effect. It is also the long overdue showcase of what Toni Collette is capable of: I'd call her performance by itself a work of art.

[dfa]

Your review of this movie is just spot on. Best review I’ve seen. It’s not a jump scare movie. It’s that emotional bone chilling element that stands out. Loved this review.

[TJ]

Great review as always. I can't stand how dismissive a lot of mainstream YouTube critics (*cough* Grace Randolph) are with films like this.

[michaelz]

Aster is gifted but doesn't know when to pull back. Sometimes more is not better.

[LuisMartinez-gtmy]

I was the only one out of my friends who felt that the movie also had a “The Shining” vibe so I’m glad someone else felt that!

[Naans]

This may be a huge reach, but part of the way I interpreted her vocation is about control. Yes, she’s moving everything around herself; manipulating the miniatures in the artificial environment as the family encounters tensions and traumas. But they are still just props. I took this as ultimately none of us can control our genetics (Hereditary).

So we are all kind of ‘controlled’ in a sense with what cards we are dealt. We can’t choose what family we are born into. We’re all just props. 🙃

[russellb]

I have had this hanging around for some time but only just got around to seeing it. I understood the familial context very early on, as it does slap you hard in the face from the get go. I have a family that kind of feels like it is falling apart around me currently, so it certainly resonated. While I did admire the film making and directorial handling here, 'The Witch' and 'Relic' got to me more as far as the unsettling creep factor is concerned. I am not sure I will watch it again any time soon but I would certainly watch this over 'Midsommar', any day!

[roguetwo]

It was a good movie and disturbing but not the scariest for me. Exorcist is still the scariest for me. I agree it's more like Rosemary's Baby.

[bradley]

Hereditary is the scariest horror movie in my opinion. Not for the “horror scenes”, but that dreadful tension between the family members. Its almost unbearable.

[sinistercinemareviews]

Wonderful review. I thought this was a modern masterpiece. I was elated when I left the theater. Do you ever do Spoiler Discussions? I think you could do that extremely well.

[seijidaitai]

Found your channel today and have been going through your reviews of all my favorite movies, and this is the only one so far that you really liked 😅

[georgeedward]

Disturbing as this film was at times, it was refreshing to see a so called horror movie that wasn't another cut-and-paste gore fest aimed at teenagers. It's a movie Hitchcock or Kubrick might have made with lots of foreshadowing, symbolism and deeper meaning.

[gergq]

You give the best reviews on YouTube right now. Thank you

[StewartCB]

Thanks for a very well-constructed, very intelligent review.

[Naans]

The VERY opening scene with the slow pan across that room with the zoom-in to the house is still my favorite part of the movie. I can’t explain it. It’s just a feeling that sets the unsettling tone for the entire movie.

[ELCHAPOTHEMAN]

Hi i wondered if you could shed light on why there are so many cuts in your reviews? It seems that an edit is done after each sentence/paragraph? Thanks 🙏

[nicolewong]

The scene when Peter the brother was in bed the morning after the accident, and you could hear the mother discovering the body in the car... was very similar to The Shining When Danny was having that convulsion hearing his parents arguing... Seeing the future..

[leogarcia-cuesta]

either way I appreciate Aster's visual technique.

[turq]

This movie was probably the most frightening one I've ever seen

[reubensane]

Also we learn in this film that everything mentioned we start to understand better as the film progresses and how everything is predestined as well.