Pretentious Death Porn Disguised as High Art

Rating: 5/10 (24 July 2019)

If you're familiar with "Hereditary" then you probably know how this film will proceed: at first it seems like a conventional film with a glossy polish. That polish is eventually stripped bare, and you're left with very graphic, grotesque imagery.
I will state that it definitely has merits, though. I value independence and other people's independence. I think that relying on communalism is a flaw, so when someone depicts cults well, my stomach turns. I'm also claustrophobic, so the cloistered, sheltered aspect of the cult in this movie freaked me out to a certain extent. I would not have remained in such a place for even a day, so I would have avoided all of the horror if I were in a similar situation in real life.
But it's far too slow paced, and it lingers on human anatomy and its various states of decomposition a bit too long. I'm neither a mortician nor a necrophiliac, so such things did not interest me. I also want to state that the previous imdb viewers who have written, "We really can't tell who are the evil people in this movie" scare me more than the movie itself. They are the simpletons for whom cults are designed. I believe that most sane people can agree that murder is a bit... ummmmm, draconian for the "transgressions" (and even this term is debatable in some cases) that the visiting party committed against the cult.
But their mentality makes for good horror. I just wish that director Aster had focused more on these reviewers-- I mean, cultists' mentality and less on defacing human flesh.