First and second act are excellent, then in the third a totally average disposable horror garbage appeared.

Rating: 7/10 (11 September 2018)

Hereditary, a film that could have been so much and ended up being just fairly good. Let's see, the first and second act are marevellous, taking the viewer through sheer excruciating pain and grief through the eyes of a very emotionally beaten-up family working their way through tragedy and how to deal with their lives after such scarring events. The acting is top-notch, Toni Collette and Alex Wolff absolutely steal the show, they deliver such powerful outstanding performances, definitely award-worthy.
I was excited to see this movie, but the actual movie lies in the build-up towards the climax, and not including the climax itself, which it was so ordinary and reminiscent of typical horror nonsense you see nowadays; so utterly disappointing. A family drama with a horror undercurrent that keeps you enthralling with only subtle frightening suggestions; for such a great build up I was waiting for the ending to blow me away, and to my utter disappointment it didn't. It felt like I was watching a completely different movie, that is, a mediocre one. I just couldn't keep my eyes from rolling at such a cheap ending. However, I cannot be unfair with what came before and it definitely felt to me like one of the best horror films of this decade.
I sincerely don't know how you are going to feel after watching this movie, like me perhaps, amazed and disillusioned at the same time; I get the feeling that a lot of people felt ripped off, not only by the ending like me considering everything it preceded, but also by the fact that is not a conventional horror movie with plenty of cheap scare jumps and nonsensical plots. Yet, is this unconventionality is what made it great in the first place in my opinion.
I gotta hand it to the score, I can't remember such an infectious and unsettling piece of music belonging to a horror movie in recent years that was so attached to the plot, the characters and the overall atmosphere and
tone of the film. Simply superb. Had me feeling uncomfortable during the entire movie.
So there you have it, a film that could have been excellent, but instead decided to crush my high expectations that were built during the course of the film, which is what annoys me the most; the film itself raised the bar and lowered it destroying what was previously built so well. Still, a decent film; I urge you, don't miss out on this one! You may feel different than me.