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Hereditary

2018 Directed by Ari Aster

Every family tree hides a secret.

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

Toni Collette Alex Wolff Gabriel Byrne Milly Shapiro Ann Dowd Christy Summerhays Mallory Bechtel Brock McKinney Jake Brown Morgan Lund Jarrod Phillips Heidi Méndez Zachary Arthur Moises L. Tovar Austin R. Grant Gabriel Monroe Eckert Bus Riley

Alternative Titles

Mostenire diabolica, El legado del diablo, 유전, Dòng máu bị nguyền rủa, Héréditaire, Hereditary: Das Vermächtnis, Ondskabens hus, Hérédité, Hereditary: le radici del male, Hereditário

thriller horror mystery

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Review by brat pitt ★★★★½ 19

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

dude, what do you mean you don’t worship king paimon, lucifer’s most obedient servant and master of the arts? oh, you’re still stuck on the babadook?? lol grow up 😂 there’s a new LGBT demon in town and anybody who’s anybody is getting naked for him #HAIL
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 35

watching HEREDITARY in a packed theater (with *bright projection*) is one of life’s great and terrible pleasures. go see it this weekend. bring your whole family.

it’s very important that you bring your whole family.

say the words exactly as they’re written on the page.

your sacrifice will be rewarded in the end.

HP.
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 23

Toni Collette does *at least* three different things in this movie that might fuck you up forever.

imagine a supernatural creep-fest like THE CONJURING, but told with the patience of THE WITCH, the emotional depth of THE BABADOOK, and the kind of scares that that James Wan would kill for.

curious how it hangs together the second time around (scary movies tend to lose their edge, but a part of me suspects this one might get even better), but for now this feels like a *major* debut.

[clucks tongue]
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★½ 26

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

👉 you 👈 are 👺 paimon 👹 one 👆 of the 8️⃣ eight 🤴 kings 👑 of 🔥 hell ‼️ we 👫 have 👀 looked 👁 to the 🗺 northwest ↖️ and 📞 called ☎️ you 👈 in 👇 we’ve 👫 corrected ✔️ your 👼🏻 first 👩 female 🚶‍♀️ body 🏃‍♀️ and 🎁 give ☝️ you 👈 now 🕑 this 💁‍♂️ healthy 👦 male 👱‍♂️ host 👯‍♂️ we 🙅‍♀️ reject 🙅‍♂️ the ⛪️ trinity 💒 and 🙏 pray ✝️ devoutly 🎗 to 👉 you 👈 great 👹 paimon 👺 give 👬 us 👭 your 🧠 knowledge 🤔 of all 🤫 secret 🤭 things 🤝 bring 👫 us 🏆 honor 🎖 wealth 💵 and ✅ good 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 familiars ⭕️ bind 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 all men 🙆‍♂️ to 🗣 our will ✊ as we 👯‍♀️ have 🤝 bound 🤞 ourselves 👈 for 🕣 now ⏳ and ⌛️ ever 🕯 to yours 👊

🙌 hail, paimon! 👏
Review by Demi Adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 22

i’m so goddamn glad i avoided all of the trailers and info on what this movie was about. the way the camera movements and lighting in this movie play on the audience’s expectiations of horror to build tension without jump scares is so fucking outstanding that i’m already mad that the cinematographer of this movie probably doesn’t win an oscar in 2019
Review by alie ★★★★ 4

a24 can just like have my firstborn at this point you know

Recent reviews

Review by Michael Helms ★★★★

Well that was insane. I feel kind of gross every time I watch a movie like this. A solid horror in the tradition of Rosemary’s Baby (the best horror film ever).
Review by Antonia Quiroz ★★★★★

can I join hell?
Review by michi ★★★★★

any horror movie that can make me cover my eyes for the entire time is a good horror movie.
Review by tranquilo ★★★★½

I was all “horned up” going into this one; and it gave me what I wanted.
Review by Fernando Castagnoli ★★

ta' buena pa' echarse unas risas con los amigos y unas cervezas de madrugada
Review by damiiir ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

kinda like it kinda not the different elements end up undermining each other but the journey from that of the little sister’s surprising death until the last 5 minutes or so is effective and has memorable stuff. truly didn’t know which way it was leaning for a long time like is the mom the bad guy, is it the sister, is everybody gonna survive etc. also what a great toni collette performance
Review by 𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐚 👼 ★★★★★

i tried to rent the grand budapest hotel but then itunes wasnt working so i just cried for 10 mintues out of pure frustration and exhaustion and put this on so in conclusion yes, i do relate to annie

(this movie literally never gets old for me. everything about it is so well done and so amazingly executed, and i feel like i see a different perspective or something new each time, so that's the review i guess)
Review by Maurice Lee ★★★★½

'Hereditary' reminds me why I haven't watched a horror film before going to sleep since I was 12 years old.

Also, Toni Collette gives one of the best performances in ANY horror film I've EVER seen, so despite miniscule faults I had with it, 'Hereditary' definitely warranted the immense attention it got.
Review by ChildishOpinion

3rd viewing. Masterpiece!