First-time director Ari Aster offers up scary movie which gives us all the delicious pleasures of big-screen fear, along with a killer lead performance.

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2019)

First-time director Ari Aster offers up scary movie which gives us all the delicious pleasures of big-screen fear, along with a killer lead performance from Toni Collette. When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry, trying to outrun the sinister fate they have inherited. Described as an Exorcist for a new generation, Milly Shapiro plays the young daughter who suffers a grizly decapitation, and Gabriel Byrne plays the husband and father who spontaneously combusts. Theres a lot going on in a complex plot which stands up to repeat viewings.