What is there left to be said

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2020)

So Hereditary. I've seen this film a handful of times by now and each time I seem to be finding more and more detail throughout the background. The name Ari Aster speaks for itself and he is one fine up and coming film maker.
As a horror movie enthusiast, trails seem to be the death of a movie for me. If i am interested in a film I tend to watch the trailers over and over again to the point where I could theoretically map out the entire movie. But with Hereditary, each chapter offers something way off from what I though was about to happen. Each scene offers something for the audience to grasp at and boy did it deliver.
More on the movie. I LOVE the Kubrick like use of the camera and the style in which we follow the characters from one room to the next; it's very satisfying to watch. The use of darkness really helps seal in the dread of this family as one by one they are being "sacrificed". The scene with Charlie (you know the one) was unexpected, like I kept thinking to myself "no she's going to be alright, theres no way THAT just happened", and then two shots later we see the aftermath; brilliant. The scariest scene to me was when Annie (the mom) was chasing Peter (the son) up the stairs and into the attic. First of all, Annie came out of nowhere from the shadows of the living room (which might i add, was surrounded by naked people) and started running down Peter. He somehow evades her and closes the attic door behind him. And here's the scariest part, we heard something banging over and over and it cuts to Annie banging her head on the attic door like an 90's metal guitarist. On top of that a few scenes later, we hear some sort of crunching/slushing noise. The camera pans up from Peter and it's Annie floating from the ceiling and working on beheading herself with a piano wire. She starts off slow and works the wire back and forth faster and faster (meanwhile Peter jumps out of the window lol) until her head completely falls off and we hear a thud. That final 10-15 minutes are some of the most intense and horrifyingly graphic piece of cinema I have ever witness and I watch a lot of horror movies.
I cannot rave about this movie enough and I wish horror was more mainstream and appeal to a wider audience.
With that being said, it's a damn shame and a travesty that Toni Collette did not get an Oscar nomination from her terrific acting in this. Her screaming, "I JUST WANT TO DIE", hit real deep in me. This is one of the greatest horror achievement this decade and I would even spread it out to this century.
Overall, this is a must see film regardless of genre and has a ton of rewatchable factors. There is so much detail that you miss the first time (or first several times) you see it and it doesn't get old.