"I'm The Only One Who Can Fix This!"...

Rating: 10/10 (8 January 2019)

Opening w/ a funeral for the secretive, distant matriarch of the family, the tension grows almost immediately. What, at first, appears to be family dysfunction, reveals itself to be something else. Something deeply psychological, or is it? Could something supernatural be happening? Something dark and unspeakable? HEREDITARY is more than just an ordinary horror film, in the way that THE EXORCIST or THE SHINING are more than the sum of their parts. Make no mistake, this is one scary movie. It's also mysterious, intensely disturbing, and builds a palpable sense of creeping dread and doom. Toni Collette is tremendous in her role as the possibly unstable, paranoid, Annie. Is she losing her mind, or is something infinitely worse going on? Gabriel Byrne is her husband, Steve, watching his family disintegrate before his eyes. Alex Wolff is the teenage son, Peter, and Milly Shapiro is Charlie. Every character is necessary, and nothing is as it seems. This movie bears several viewings... P.S.- Very few horror films have this movie's ability to drill into the mind and stay there. This one hits that spot...