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.

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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]

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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

a24 can just like have my firstborn at this point you know

Mehhhh

Scariest movie I've ever seen, probably not watching it again

this movie is almost perfection and one of the scariest films ive ever seen. suffers a little in the middle and goes on for just a tad too long but otherwise a really fantastic film with toni collete really carrying the film with her acting

buh

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The first half of this film is excellent. Interesting characters with complex relationships. The miniature motif is incredible. A ton of awesome creative shots. But what it all built up to felt less than the sum of its parts.

Two scenes in the second half felt really sloppy. Like they ran out of time and had only one take to shoot it. The rules of the world start to break down. Characters motivation to end up in specific places for events to take place felt contrived. The climax is insane, but offers no conclusion to the emotional complexity of the rest of the film. Really the majority of the second half just feels less polished than the first.

I would still say this is a really good addition to the horror genre and all the hype surrounding it did not help temper my expectations, but I was a little disappointed at the end.

Nada buena la pelicula a mi gusto, la historia no es muy clara sobre que es lo "malo". El miedo que intenta causar es muy predecible.

Arguably the best horror movie I’ve ever watched. It’s a slow burn movie that has me thinking of a thousand different theories the entire time. The movie has a perfect ending which reveals enough to answer the questions you asked yourself the entire time, but leaves some details out so that you’re still left thinking of some of those possible theories.

movie!