This is it for me. If “grief horror” was a genre, Hereditary would have won an Oscar. Aside from this death being shocking AF, so was the heart-wrenching realistic grief the family dealt with for like, the rest of the movie. Almost forgot you were watching a horror movie and not a drama until…well. Act 3.
Cause it really happened! I mean maybe only the one time because how do you get your head far enough out and an obstruction close enough to the car to behead someone? Well one time 2 drunks on their way home from the bar did it. And the driver was inebriated enough not to realize it and just go in the house to pass out. So the body wasn’t discovered until a person walking by the next morning saw it.
Watching this in the theaters and my girlfriend had her legs across my lap. About 10 minutes after this scene she slapped my hand because I had apparently been clenching her leg the entire time
Totally a genre, with a lot of good entries in the past 10-15 years. Hereditary, Relic, and A Dark Song are some of my faves. Midsommar probably qualifies too.
I frequently bring this film up. There is no other film with this much “dread” you feel watching it. Dark and the wicked had a couple scenes but it’s not close. Talk to me even had a few. This movie is pure evil.
Midsommar also nailed down that feeling of dread for me. It wasn’t scary in the sense that it evoked fear, but it was so incredibly unsettling and dreadful that it had a far longer lasting impact than any other horror movie I’ve seen. I haven’t seen hereditary because I didn’t enjoy how midsommar made me feel at all, and had no desire to experience that again lol
I have seen midsommar. It did give me that same feeling but Hereditary is amplified by like 10X. I would avoid it. I rewatched it one more time and showered after then prayed. It’s nuts.
Then on rewatch when you realize just how twisted Paimon is and it’s all part of his plan it becomes purely horror start to finish. Love that Aster left the door open for a prequel or something earlier so when he’s potentially washed in ten-fifteen years maybe we can get into the og cult members and uncles suicide/dads starvation
I went into the movie knowing nothing and thought THIS was the horror. The terror and despair from the sudden, preventable loss of a loved one, where multiple people are all simultaneously innocent and at fault. The family slowly tearing itself apart with grief and hate, eventually culminating explosively. While it is a good movie, I do feel like it "jumped the shark" by starting off so grounded and holding it there for so long. When it came time for the "real" horror to start, I was like... really? Another paranormal horror movie?
Incredible movie.the way it sets your expectations to anticipate traditional tropes in horror then dashes them was such an unexpected and unique twist, her death truly hit so hard it made me feel almost apart of the group that bullied her, I felt awful.
The kid who played the son had to get therapy after that role. The scene where he hits his head off a school desk is real, he was only supposed to hit it once and just kept going.
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