Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau Is Afraid (trailer)

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Postby feaxfang » Tue May 22, 2018 4:22 pm

parapet wrote:this is pretty great but y'all really shouldn't be watching anything from it beforehand

Yeah saw the trailer once and it was too many times. Would've loved going into this completely cold.
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Tue May 29, 2018 4:08 pm

https://news.avclub.com/america-let-hereditary-shake-your-very-soul-early-and-1826058914

We’re giving away tickets for advance screenings of Hereditary in (deep breath) Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC.

http://screenings.a24films.com/hereditary/promo/av-club/
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Postby sex cauldron » Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:40 pm

Saw this last night and hooo boy I loved it. Take out all the genre stuff and it still would have been a great family drama imo. Toni C was incredible.

but also probably the most scared I've been watching a movie as an adult.
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Postby nautical hyperblast » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:04 am

so stoked.
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:18 am

first screening on Thursday. did they show the Halloween trailer with it?
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Postby transitive » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:35 am

Is this gonna give me PTSD like it gave the kid who plays the teenager?
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Wed Jun 06, 2018 12:05 pm

hoping I shit my pants in the theater
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Postby someguy » Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:44 pm

This is not some crazy terrifying experience. It's deliberately paced and stays pretty grounded horror-wise until the final act.

I liked it but go in and try to forget the hype along with anything you've seen.
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:46 pm

I was promised "pure emotional terrorism"
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Postby someguy » Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:39 pm

yeah take aa dowd with a grain of salt
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Postby Ampersand » Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:09 pm

I forgot this came out today, and now I'm too drunk to drive anywhere to see it.

Tomorrow then!
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Postby tricksforchips » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:19 pm

Colin Stetson did the score!
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Postby mellowgold » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:52 pm

yeah this is not scary as it is unsettling and disturbing but i loved it.

i wish Edward Albee was alive to see this.
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Postby goofjan » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:54 pm

someguy wrote:I liked it but go in and try to forget the hype along with anything you've seen.

but I just saw an instagram ad that specifically told me to believe the hype!
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Postby blue sunshine » Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:09 pm

Agree that you should go into this cold turkey. Didn't know anything about it going in and quite enjoyed it.

Really good craftsmanship and really great acting, especially from Toni Collette. This has some pretty memorable scenes, horror and otherwise.

Few things that didn't work for me:

The verbal explanation of everything that just happened at the end was really unnecessary. Takes the air out of the wildness of that final scene and any sort of remanent mystery.

Although I liked each part separately, the craziness and fun of the conclusion didn't quite mesh with the gradually building mood of intense grief and despair that runs through the film.
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:23 pm

oh man. I was startled and shocked and started to cry hahah.
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Postby someguy » Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:21 am

I don't think this works especially well as a straight up horror film in that it's pretty pedestrian when it comes to the scares themselves. The horror aspect works best as something further off in the distance, like a destination we know we're coming to but the arrival doesn't match the excitement of the anticipation of getting there. I like this more as a film that takes the anxiety around genetics/inheriting the negative traits of one's parents and puts it into this very literal form via some occult conspiracy.Toggle Spoiler
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Postby pinkerton » Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:26 am

Sick movie five bloody stars
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Postby flimsy » Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:07 am

I liked this but agree that the ending was kind of incongruent with the rest of the movieToggle Spoiler though Charlie's decapitationToggle Spoiler was one of the most viscerally difficult things to watch I've seen since probably faces of death :)
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Postby mellowgold » Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:36 am

yes to what sg said and also the ending worked for me bc each scene built off of the last, amping the tension higher and higher and the final act was this big release of energy. it was a payoff that the movie inched its way towards and earned. i loved the exposition at the end because this movie didn't do that indie (horror) thing where it leaves things vague or open ended for the sake of being mysterious. it reminded me of the witch (actually a lot of hereditary reminded me of the witch) and also the ending of rosemary's baby, which is like 100% exposition but it also really really works because like hereditary you think you're watching one movie but it's actually a totally different movie.Toggle Spoiler
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Postby qmass » Sat Jun 09, 2018 9:27 am

I liked it a great deal, but the theater I was in was bonkers:

1. Woman with crying baby telling shushers to "fuck off and mind your business"
2. Weird dude beside me whispering to himself and randomly grabbing his duffelbag throughout the movie and I started getting a SUPER bad vibe from him
3. 20 minutes in, a lady rolls in a full shopping cart
4. Old guy struggling to open a bag of candy for like 30 minutes making the loudest sound known to man

AND STILL I WAS ENGROSSED!! Believe the hype, but also go in as stoned as you can get.
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Postby doublethink0 » Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:03 am

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Postby blue sunshine » Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:47 am

qmass wrote: but also go in as stoned as you can get.


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Postby bear » Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:09 pm

I am unsettled
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Postby jalapeño ranch » Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:13 pm

Wait, how do you sneak a shopping cart into a movie theater?
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Postby zach york » Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:31 pm

had a real tough time sleeping last night. kept glancing over at the corner of my room.
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Postby nice pass » Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:55 pm

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Postby steaming shit » Sat Jun 09, 2018 3:42 pm

the kid's long silent reaction in the car after his sister is decapitatedToggle Spoiler was genuinely disturbing
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Postby rixx » Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:10 pm

steaming shit wrote:the kid's long silent reaction in the car after his sister is decapitatedToggle Spoiler was genuinely disturbing


there are so many times where I've seen close calls happen and I always wonder how I would react, i feel it would be exactly like this. i think this part was my favorite scene in the movie
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Postby ashtrayheart » Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:40 pm

this was really good! the crowd in my theater were awful, reminded me of the reaction the vvitch got...they really shouldn’t sell this disturbing/moody/nightmare movies as popcorn horror flicks...save that for the conjuring crowd.
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