Hereditary: Peculiar little film

Rating: 4/10 (14 September 2018)

I wasn't expecting much from Hereditary, Hollywood has lost their way when it comes to horror to such an extent I'm not sure I've enjoyed one since Orphan (2009).
Starring Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne it's an odd little tale and very hard to explain without spoiling anything.
It's certainly interesting, has some genuine shocks and is in no way predictible like these things usually are but alas it does still fall into many of the usual Hollywood pitfalls.
A highly over convoluted plot that does leave you scratching your head, I'm happy to say it does for the most part explain everything it just goes around the houses in doing so.
Performances are on point, visually it looks solid and again it's not the cliched mess you expect to come out of Hollywood, but it's still not all that good.
I cannot get my head around how it has such an incredibly high rating. 7.4 at time of writing, a movie only needs 8.0 to get into the top 250 movies! I assume that will drop in time, but don't understand the appeal.
As always I believe if you want horror, go independent. Hollywood may have surprised me with this, but barely entertained.
The Good:
Unpredictible
Has some genuinely shocking moments
The Bad:
Still cliched to hell
Plot is a bit of a mess
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Too many characters got ahead of themselves