This film is as numbing as the drugs taken in the movie

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 2019)

After watching this movie I feel just really weird, a bit like the film really! So many positives, but unfortunately so many negatives also!
The cinematography, the setting, the contrast of beauty and terror and the fact the majority of the horrors happen during the day making you equally fear daylight as well as darkness after this film are all truly really well done in this movie! The lead actress is also magnificent and you can't help but feel so sorry for what she has had to go through! The opening of the film is extremely upsetting!
However . . . Yes this is an artsy film I know but it really does drag too much! This dragging of events along with the added strange humour leaves you feeling rather not much at all! So many scenes that would've been quite shocking or chilling all lose their impact and even though what you're seeing is crazy it doesn't feel it due to the incredibly slow pacing of this film! I just never thought I felt too much of any emotion during the film, not too much fear, not too much shock, not too much of anything, which for me is why it was disappointing!
I can understand why maybe the characters never felt too much fear and it was shot this way as they are often under the influence of drugs, but this numbing of the main characters senses also numbs the viewers experience!
Hereditary is up there as one of my favorite ever horror films by the way I really like this director. So overall a beautifully shot disturbing film that becomes emotionless due to the amount of waiting for things to happen, I was left wanting to shout at the film as you are wanting to shout at all of the films characters 'Wake Up Are Ye Mental,
Ye Are Making No Sense??'