butter wrote:This movie is incredible, but I honestly wish I had never seen it.
manvstrees wrote:wailing
Much Honoured Lord Nefarious wrote:rainbow battle kid you can kindly get the FUCK out of this thread while the adults have actual STAR WARS discussions.
100% for sure the best in the genre I've seen since The Witch. I watched this alone in an empty house in my basement last night, and you know what: I am looking hard into every corner of my home after every crossing of every door threshold and all the lights are emphatically on. Halfway through, I wanted to turn it off and drive to my family and hold them. And then I physically flinched at a *cluck* that attacked my left ear, hard-panned to a satellite speaker in 5.1. Throughout, I related to these people so; I paced; I put fingers between my eyes and my TV. Everyone is right that Hereditary is a remix of immense power, being Rosemary's Baby in its written bones, and being largely Wan in its picture execution—but I'm here to tell you that sonically it is screaming The Exorcist, and it brilliantly martials all the aural weapons that won the reigning scariest movie an Oscar 45 years ago. Scritchy scratched drawings lead us into kid bedrooms; fires arc percussive out of haunted candles; dogs mutter and complain; flies harass our periphery; and the very very strong Stetson score pulses hypertensive and pregnant and subliminal. This movie borrows so freely but always from such strength—picking dream and literature out of Elm Street's classrooms, lifting meticulous art-obsession from the Overlook—that the heredity of its title and the heritage of its genre fuse and warp and erect a true monument to our current, horrific pace of change—political, familial, personal—a threshing reality that, as a parent, I daily feel the guilt of exposing fresh new hopeful humans to, humans I couldn't love more or be more closely related to. This movie is deeply its genre forebears and enacts the horror of that, the guilt of being so, the terror. A haunted house built on haunted houses with haunted houses stacked on other haunted houses in its foyer. Landmark movie.
edit: I like Mark Kermode largely because of his passion for The Exorcist and I sympathize with his view that exposition konks some on the head in Hereditary but I see it as a feature of the remix rather than a bug. Unlike The Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby, it's trading on the horror of being all things at once, i.e. it's both a serious psychodrama and a portrait of a satanic conspiracy and must be both at once to match the complexity of our era. There might be an age threshold for embracing remix horror like Hereditary that he's crossed and I haven't yet. Anyway, enjoyed the debate above.
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