Genre-defining

Rating: 9/10 (10 September 2019)

Hereditary elevates horror as a genre to its proper place by being, explicitly, a contemplation of the generation of evil into the world, whereas all previous iterations had only been implicitly so; hence, it's also one of the most difficult movie to recommend. Not because it is extreme or lurid, but because it is succinct, pointed, timely, and effective.