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Jun 11, 2018 · Hereditary has been called "emotionally devastating" and "disturbing" by critics and audiences alike. It's a supernatural horror film, with sinister things lurking just out of sight, but when ...
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Jun 19, 2018 · What makes Hereditary special, though, is the way Aster uses his satanic conspiracy as a stand-in for all the horrors that a family can pass on down the generations: genetic disorders, neuroses ...
May 3, 2021 · Ari Aster's 'Hereditary' as a meditation on familial trauma, mental health and representations of motherhood. 2018, dir. Ari Aster. Cast: Milly Shapiro, Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff. (Photo courtesy A24/Reid Chavis) When looking at the idea of trauma and loss, the ideal film which comes to mind, when discussing these themes, is the ...
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- Grief Is The Real Terror
- The Support Group
- Charlie’s Death Tears A Broken Family Apart
- It’S A Straightforward Family Drama Before Becoming A Horror Movie
- Transgenerational Trauma
- Peter’s Visions of Charlie
- The Séance
- It’S Not Going to Be Okay
- Annie Is Partly Responsible For Charlie’s Death
- The Tragic Ending Is Inevitable
Despite Hereditary’s use of common horror movie iconography like evil spirits, the real terror in the story is grief. At the beginning of the movie, the Graham family is reeling from the death of Annie’s mother. Then, an even worse tragedy besets the family when Charlie is killed. Grieving her child’s death on top of her mother’s leaves Annie hangi...
When she’s struggling to come to terms with her mother’s death, Annie is recommended a support group for people suffering from grief. There, she’s encouraged to open up. She launches into a poignant monologue about her complicated relationship with her mother and the fact that the rest of her family all died from mental health-related issues. This ...
The family dynamic of the Grahams isn’t great before Peter accidentally kills his sister, but it sure gets a lot worse after that. Peter is guilt-tripped into taking Charlie to a party, where she unwittingly eats a cake containing nuts while he gets high. As she goes into anaphylactic shock, a stoned Peter frantically tries to drive her to the hosp...
Ari Aster wanted Hereditary to function as a straightforward family drama before adding in any horror elements. For its first half-hour, although the ominous warning signs are there, Hereditarydoesn’t feature anything explicitly horrific. RELATED: Ari Aster: The 5 Most Quotable Lines From Hereditary (& 5 From Midsommar) Charlie’s sudden decapitatio...
Ari Aster explored the notion of transgenerational trauma in Hereditary. The family is shown to have a long history of trauma that’s been passed on generationally. The demon that gets passed on from generation to generation in the Graham family can be seen as a terrifying metaphor for the trauma that’s passed on through their DNA.
Charlie’s death is an accident. It’s a horrifying, gruesome, disturbing accident, but it’s an accident all the same. Of course, Annie has a tough time not blaming Peter for Charlie’s death. Peter also has a tough time not blaming himself for the tragedy. He starts seeing visions of Charlie everywhere. When he’s trying to get to sleep, he can see he...
When Annie meets a woman named Joan at the support group, she’s invited back to Joan’s apartment and introduced to the haunting world of séances. Manipulating Annie’s grief, Joan is able to convince her to perform a séance at the house with her husband and son, so they can all contact Charlie from beyond the grave. If Annie wasn’t mourning the loss...
In a lot of traditional stories about a family dealing with grief, the message is ultimately an uplifting one as the mourning brings the family together and they realize that if they have each other, everything’s going to be okay. RELATED: Ari Aster: Hereditary's 5 Scariest Scenes (& 5 From Midsommar) But grief doesn’t always pan out like that. Som...
Peter is directly responsible for Charlie’s death because he was driving the car when he swerved off the road and a telephone pole decapitated her. But she wouldn’t have been at the party if Annie wasn’t so overbearing. In order to get away to attend a party, Peter lies that it’s a school event, so Annie pressures him to bring his sister. Deep down...
A lot of horror movies revolve around a terrifying situation that the characters can escape. If Laurie Strode plays her cards right, she can outsmart Michael Myers. If Chief Brody can blow up the shark, then Amity Island’s residents will be safe. But in Hereditary, the family’s tragic fate is inevitable. There’s a sense that these demons are coming...
Jun 14, 2018 · The hype train that departed from Hereditary, the debut feature film from writer-director Ari Aster, at Sundance 2018 catapulted A24 yet again as the vanguards of a resurgence in old-school horror…
Jun 8, 2018 · Ari Aster made the year's big breakout, a terrifying drama that stems from real-life experiences. He just won't say what they are. Skeletons in his closet helped Ari Aster make his breakout horror ...
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Jun 15, 2018 · One of the strengths of Hereditary is the way it bottles up its supernatural elements. Early on, the film unfolds as an intense psychological drama about a family trying to process grief and guilt.
