Hereditary

2018 Directed by Ari Aster

Every family tree hides a secret.

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.

Toni Collette Alex Wolff Gabriel Byrne Milly Shapiro Ann Dowd Christy Summerhays Mallory Bechtel Brock McKinney Jake Brown Morgan Lund Jarrod Phillips Heidi Méndez Zachary Arthur Moises L. Tovar Austin R. Grant Gabriel Monroe Eckert Bus Riley Harrison Neil BriAnn Rachele David Stanley

Alternative Titles

Héréditaire, Hereditary: Das Vermächtnis, Ondskabens hus, Hereditary: le radici del male, Mostenire diabolica, Dòng máu bị nguyền rủa

thriller horror mystery

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Popular reviews

Review by brat pitt ★★★★½ 24

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

dude, what do you mean you don’t worship king paimon, lucifer’s most obedient servant and master of the arts? oh, you’re still stuck on the babadook?? lol grow up 😂 there’s a new LGBT demon in town and anybody who’s anybody is getting naked for him #HAIL
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 37

watching HEREDITARY in a packed theater (with *bright projection*) is one of life’s great and terrible pleasures. go see it this weekend. bring your whole family.
it’s very important that you bring your whole family.
say the words exactly as they’re written on the page.
your sacrifice will be rewarded in the end.
HP.
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 22

Toni Collette does *at least* three different things in this movie that might fuck you up forever.
imagine a supernatural creep-fest like THE CONJURING, but told with the patience of THE WITCH, the emotional depth of THE BABADOOK, and the kind of scares that that James Wan would kill for.
curious how it hangs together the second time around (scary movies tend to lose their edge, but a part of me suspects this one might get even better), but for now this feels like a *major* debut.
[clucks tongue]
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★½ 31

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Review by Demi Adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 22

i’m so goddamn glad i avoided all of the trailers and info on what this movie was about. the way the camera movements and lighting in this movie play on the audience’s expectiations of horror to build tension without jump scares is so fucking outstanding that i’m already mad that the cinematographer of this movie probably doesn’t win an oscar in 2019
Review by beck ★★★★ 4

if anyone ever clicks their tongue around me again i’m calling the police

Recent reviews

Review by varvara sulaiman ★★★★

ok amazingly disturbing
Review by JAGVillarreal ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

- I never wanted to be your mother
[...]
- I wasn’t trying to kill you! I was trying to protect you!
Review by carol ★★★★★

no words
Review by Glio ★

Desde que he empezado a hacer esto de Letterboxd es la única película que de verdad no he podido ni siquiera acabar. Al menos en Midsommar podía ver lo que pasaba.
Review by Sadia Ramanthasia ★★★★

Great acting, great story, great in everything, watching this is like reading a really intense book, you can't help but to hold your breath thr entire movie.
Review by Kerry ★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I can never unsee the demise of Toni College's character. It haunts me. :(
Slow burn with a combusting ending. Not for everyone.
Review by Orange_Famta ★★★★½

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Let me start by saying, you should watch this movie. Even if you aren’t a horror fan, you should watch it.
I’ve always found it odd that Silence of the Lambs was called a horror movie, I mean nothing in it is really scary by any sense of the word. Then I watched Hereditary, and I learned the meaning of the term “psychological horror”. That’s what Hereditary is.
The scariest thing in Hereditary is people chasing the main character around his house trying to kill him, but that’s only ~10 minutes at the end of the film. The rest is one of my favorite things in film, and that’s showing people slowly lose their insanity, and Hereditary does it close…
Review by milanserfilm ★★★½

A24 dauda
Review by Elçin Caniyev ★★★½

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