Toni Collette Shines in This Horror Tale

Rating: 7/10 (14 September 2018)

Let's get one thing straight right off the bat - Toni Collette is brilliant and could even make a staged reading from a phone book worthwhile. In Hereditary, she gets probably her best role to date as the struggling matriarch of a very cursed family.
Besides Collette, Hereditary has one big thing going for it - unpredictability. Just try to figure out how things are going to play out from the trailer or the first 20 minutes of the movie. I dare you. I can't tell you how refreshing that is in this day and age when one can pretty much gather the beginning, middle, and end of any movie from it's overlong trailer.
Hereditary is one of those movies that works better when you go into it with no expectations and no knowledge of what's to come, so I'll keep its many surprises under wraps. Just expect to be disturbed and surprised and horrified.
You better get used to it, because Hereditary will stay with you.