But you can't fool a cinephile.

Rating: 1/10 (28 February 2019)

Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, It Follows, It Comes at Night, and Get Out, were all unique to their philosophies and the context, Hereditary mounted with rest of them makes no sense. The movie must develop with characters and story bold enough to retain viewers to engage all the time. If you look at the husband who had no character development while the rest of members making potpourri of trying to make a potential character. The philosophy of Satanism was least unique after all, because of the over rotten use of the idea by all the characters just as cliché. How come the idea of a light ray as the spirit which is free to move from place to place only hurting family members? How come séance is learned so easily by Annie? You don't make the fun out of core idea "Spiritualism" by making it banal as a piece of cake. What were those letters? What does it signify to be a miniature artist? When Charlie observes pencil box the camera focuses but for a reason which is never connected to the rest of the movie. Half of the movie was trying to be deep but it slipped away because of the worst use of postmodern horror themes by making is more stylized and substanceless.
It surely borrows from slow burning horrors like It Follows and Rosemary 's Baby but out of reason and context. Obviously, it is important to bring a change in cinema and be revolutionary but in no way, it can be called revolutionary without a substance. Most postmodern horrors are much better and full of explanatory substance. After all, it was bittersweet to watch this movie propagandized as the revolutionary cinema. The whole movie was more of a marketing gimmick to rape our senses by making something sensational.