Squanderd potential

Rating: 6/10 (12 July 2018)

When a film is touted as 'the most traumatically terrifying horror movie in ages', it had better live up to its hype, and unfortunately it does not. A couple of shocking moments do not a horror classic make.
Spoilers.
There were some embarrassingly flawed scenes in HEREDITARY.
1. At her grandmother's funeral, why is 13-year-old Charlotte dressed as if she's going camping?? Where's the respect? She's 13, not 5, old enough to be dressed appropriately.
2. When leaving the funeral, mother asks daughter if the chocolate she's eating contains nuts, establishing the fact that the daughter has a serious nut allergy. Why then when mother forces daughter to attend a high school party with her older brother, does she not ask daughter if she has her Epi-Pen? Mother doesn't know what kind of food will be served, and nuts are a pretty common snack at such events. Surely mother would ask older son to make sure younger sister doesn't consume anything containing nuts!
3. Charlotte has a bad reaction at the party after eating nuts. Older brother doesn't ask if she's carrying an Epi-Pen, doesn't call 911, but decides it's a good idea to drive his sister to the hospital. After hearing a loud thud from the back of the car, he doesn't look around to see if she's alive or dead (or missing her head), sits in the car doing nothing for the longest time, then drives home and.... climbs into bed??
3. Joan teaches Annie how to communicate with the dead in a three-minute lesson, then not long after Annie tells her family she has the gift and she too can speak with the dead? Come on! Seriously? It would have been just as laughable if she'd pulled out a copy of "Seances for Dummies".
4. What was the point of the son smashing his face into the desk when he's the chosen one?
5. Grandmother has an entire photo album filled with pictures of herself and Joan, but Annie never met her once growing up?
Best creepy moment: the naked man standing in the dark corner of the room.