Complex and Disturbing, but unmissable.

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2018)

I saw this movie on the UK premiere and it definitely left a lasting effect of pure dread, which is always great and elusive for horror nowadays. It's somewhere of a cross between a gut wretching family drama and a slow burning horror. It takes its time throughout taking you on a slow ride as you watch this family go through a series of horrid events and dig an equally horrid past, all the while tension between everyone slowly building up. Nobody is at rest, nobody is safe. The casting of this movie was spot on and the part of the unhinged mother and estranged family creates the perfect distancing give us the discomfort that everyone is together yet alone. The camera work did an astounding job of creating a fresh, tense kind of horror that was never put to rest with a jump scare and as a viewer you're never at ease, even after learning not to expect sudden scares. Towards the end the tension erupts and kind of transforms into full-on horror and leads us to a shock ending that ties the movie under a bow and brings together a number of clever hints and foreshadowings, the mood also totally shifts. As a movie I found this one very complex with the mix between drama and the total mood shift towards the ending, not to say it didn't pay off. I think Hereditary is just of the border of mainstream leading towards niche, and it tell anyone to give it a try.