Hereditary is worth your time

Rating: 7/10 (23 September 2018)

Those who hate this movie have missed some major points. The mother and grandmother are both psychotic and have suffered from mental illness their entire lives. Toni Collette is a manic insomniac who works relentless and prolifically on her miniature realist scenes that are haunting and horrifying; and apparently well received. Her husband is a hollowed out shell from decades of dealing with his wife and her mother. She even admits at one point that she tried to abort her first born, gave her second born over to her crazy mother to raise and then tried to burn than both in a fire. All the while her mother has been leading a coven and trying to raise a demon to life. When her mother dies, her plan to bring the demon out through her grand daughter, Charlie, is thwarted when she is killed on a horrible and incredible accident that may actually have been orchestrated by some good Power. So the coven switches strategy and engages crazy Mom to hold a seance. This resurrects Charlie and allows her to first possess her mother and then her brother so the demon obtains a human host.
The problem is that at two hours the director failed to tighten the script and had to resort to a disappointing exposition by the coven leader. He'd have done better to omit the stupid naked coven people and the cheap laser light show. At the point that Mom is possessed and is actively severing her own head in the rafter he could have let her body fall and ended the movie with the son breaking the fourth wall with a knowing look.
People would get to use their imagination to decide if this was a possession or if the son was behind it with the grandmother all along.