Compelled to write this

Rating: 7/10 (9 June 2018)

As usual the movie reviewing public is at their lowest as they scramble to either overly hate something (these people who give a 1 to a movie indicating it has no merits at all and think some how it is the worst thing ever made or at least in line with one ) or overly praise it (people who give it a perfect score like it has no problem and it should be up for the academy award for best picture ) . It's ok, people, to think a movie is some times mediocre. And that's where we find Hereditary. For me, the film rises weakly above mediocre horror fare of recent years , but just barely . It is no waste of time or garbage as these 1 star reviewers would have you believe , but it is a slow burn filled with great character moments and exploration of how we react to horrific events... but that's where we will lose those kind of viewers , they mostly see this as boring and are looking for constant jump scares. I get it , I do , the movie does have the sin of feeling its run time , something you never want your viewers to do. But I have to admit I was glued to the screen throughout and couldn't wait to see where it would go . It's where it goes that loses me and probably has the reviewers giving it a perfect score boasting it for being so different and demented . The movie is confused and because of this there's two different films living in one space fighting for control , one movie that is a horrific drama that is interesting and thought provoking, filled to the brim with emotional human darkness and the film we ended up getting ,a typical horror movie that you can clearly see coming from a mile away . It's that turn that hurts it, destroying what could have been amazing and leaves you walking out very unsatasfied . maybe that's what the movie intended and if so I applaud the director and writer ,just don't ask me to say this is an amazing movie . It isn't . What I'll say is that it is a well shot , well acted , suspenseful horror drama that doesn't need to rely on jump scares to be creepy and unnerving , but it will feel long , confused and unfortunately cause unintentional nervous laughing and will end with a unsatasfied taste in your mouth.