People that don't pay to see movies loved it.

Rating: 5/10 (20 June 2018)

Like so many of these artsy fartsy "horrors" these days, Hereditary is marketed as a horror but spends 3 1/2 quarters of the film being a tragic family drama. Which would've been fine had I known I was going to spend the majority of the film watching a family drama. Then out of no where the last 15 minutes turns into the exorcist. The main characters, the graham family is almost completely irrelevant because there is a big bad manipulating them... i guess? But we never see who these people are... we don't know why they're doing what they're doing. It just happens and you go... okay... so there's a group of people that want to bring a demon into the world. okie doke. We have no idea why the grandmother would do all the things she's done... literally no clue. No backstory... nothing. The grandmothers relationship to Ann Dowd's priestess character... totally skimmed over. Seriously... Toni Collette literally skims over it in a picture book.
I gave this 5 points for the performances alone. Toni Collette was a force. The dinner table scene gave me goosebumps. The film as a whole felt like one huge lead up to nothing...unless there is a sequel. But with A24 and their artsy bulls*** I doubt we'll get one and I'm not sure I'd pay for it anyway.
If you have a wifi bill or maybe a couple groceries you need to get...save your money on this one and go get what you need. This movie is for the tight a** critics... the folks that don't pay hard earned money to see movies.