Hereditary (Ari Aster, June 8, 2018) Movie • Page 12

This movie invoked so many real-life nightmare scenarios for me. I hate waking up in the middle of the night and spotting something by me thinking it's a mysterious figure but nope it was just my laundry hamper.

 

that's fair. just nuts to me that it wasn't even brought up on screen until dinner a couple weeks later lol

 

The whole movie is about ways people deal with loss and grief. Everyone copes in different ways. Luckily I've never gone through something that rough so I can't speak for those who have. It's just how I interpreted it.

 

He knew his son had suffered a complete mental break after what happened and that he was already suffering more than anyone could imagine. It was just like you said, an accident, where a million factors came together to cause something completely horrific to happen. These kinds of things happen in real life all the time, and people cope in different ways. The father’s flaw seemed to be fear of conflict which may have kept him from getting his family some help, but he’s also the only relatively heathy person in the film and was clearly able to keep his grief from ruining his relationship with his son.
The only thing I had a hard time with was the fact that Peter is just in school immediately despite everything and the fact that he is so obviously falling apart.

 

The accident scene was probably the most unsettling part for me. I was thinking everything that would befall the family would be a result of emotional trauma. But then things got cranked to 11.

 

the scene with the ”neutral perspective of the accident” was super telling in that regard

 

Movie was awesome...Damn you, MoviePass for instituting no multiple viewings!

 

The scene of somebody chopping up nuts at the party took me out of it for a second. I just couldn’t buy that there’s a party where people are drinking and getting high, but there’s also someone absolutely going to town on a giant pile of walnuts with a knife.

 

high school kids don’t know what walnuts are, that’s definitely hollywood logic stuff

 

I don't know about you, but my high school parties were all about booze and baking.

More logical if they were eating avocado toast

 

I love the idea of a mom friend baking a super complicated cake for a bunch of drunk teens.

 

I thought this was really, really fantastic and I will have trouble finding another modern horror movie this terrifying and affecting overall. It set the bar VERY high. I don't usually find myself thinking about horror movies in any more than a fun or critical sense after the fact, but a lot of the points of this film have stayed with me since I left the theater.

The entire audience went dead silent when Charlie died and I think my hand was over my mouth from that point until the end of Annie's reaction to finding the body. That entire sequence was really rough to watch overall and one of the points that I think will stay with me for a long time.
Past that, though, there was some idiot kid like five rows behind me who would let out a loud chuckle intermittently throughout the rest of the movie and I wanted to strangle him.

 

That was honestly one of my favorite scenes and one of the most layered. It was like perfect black comedy mixed with an incredibly clear update about where both characters' heads are. She is overcome and couldn't possibly understand why a comically oversized pole that dominates the entire scene/room isn't neutral and he is in a rational enough place to both worry about her mental state and what effect seeing something like this could have on Peter.

 

who holds a knife like that while cutting nuts? i’m convinced they only did it for the shot in the trailer.

 

Also, people commenting on nightmare scenarios that this movie indulged, that is absolutely no joke.

I have ALWAYS been creeped out by something being in my backseat late at night and even though this took that in a totally different direction, the tension in the scene of Peter just sitting there after Charlie's death and refusing to look behind him was totally chilling. Especially the callbacks to it through the rest of the movie. And the "am I seeing this?" stuff was really well done to me - the perfect subtle horror. Every instance of Annie floating on the ceiling was met with my friend and I both just like "...wait. SHIT." Also super creeped out by the return of the grinning guy from the funeral at the beginning whenever Peter finds the dad's body in the living room. When that dude showed up in the closet I was like "NOPE."
All that said, I really don't know if/when I'll watch this again. It's bothered me more than most horror and I don't know if I want to put myself through it again, haha.

 

NOPE indeed. lol.

 

finally saw this last night, walked out shaking. absolutely brilliant

 

When Annie is looking through her mom's book on Invocations, there is a picture of Paimon riding a horse/camel (can't remember) and there are 3 heads hanging from his belt. Grandma/Annie/Charlie = 3 heads.

 

Also can I ask why we are still using spoiler tags? The movie has been out a few days and I would hope that people who haven't seen it wouldn't venture into this thread..

 

I usually continue to use them through release weekend to be polite. I think the official rule is if it's out, you don't have to use tags. But I know there were people coming in to ask about levels of gore/scary/upsetting to find out if they should see it, so I think that's also a good reason to still be using them.

 

Ever since the “poor randy” bs happened in the Love thread, I err on the side of spoilers until the majority of the posts aren’t using them anymore. By the site’s guidelines, we certainly do not need them in here anymore though. I think anyone looking for a spoiler free community consensus on this movie will have gotten it in the last 6 or 7 pages already

 

Makes sense, thanks for answering.

 

So I know this is totally unrelated, but similar to other movies like this, I’m curious what exactly happens with Peter’s body from here on out? Like part of me wants to believe he just remains a normal-ish person by day and then rules a satanic cult by night. But on the other hand, his whole family is dead and/or considered missing by the rest of the world, so he probably had to go into hiding. So does he just like... sit on a dark throne somewhere and order the cult people to do stuff for him? Pretty pointless thing to wonder, I know, but it remains on my mind long after I’ve seen the movie, hah.

 

Director Ari Aster tells you everything we can't about Hereditary

 

Only thing that took me out of the movie was that Peter doesn't look like he would be part of that family at all, almost expected them to say he was adopted at one point.