I couldn't relate.

Rating: 3/10 (7 October 2018)

Horror films are supposed to create a sense of dread, deliver scares or gross the viewer out: Hereditary did none of these things for me. I spent over two hours watching a simple tale play out at a snail's pace and became very bored in the process. Save for the 'accident' that sees little girl Charlie (Milly Shapiro) losing her head, there's very little of note that happens until the big reveal at the end, which really doesn't come as that much of a surprise (watch Rosemary's Baby, The Wicker Man, and Race With the Devil to see how to do this kind of thing properly).
Judging by the reviews here on IMDb, Hereditary is very much a Marmite movie, but I fail to understand what its supporters are so fascinated by. Several questionable plot points alone make this a failure in my book (seriously, who would drive off leaving their sister's head on the roadside?). I put it on a par with production company A24's other slow-burn horror The Witch, which also left me scratching my head wondering what all the fuss was about (at least I could understand what they were talking about in Hereditary, which is something I suppose).