I just saw this with no knowledge except that it was vaguely horror. Wow, the sucker punch of the decapitation just comes out of no where to such an extent that it kind of took the next third of the movie to recover. Possibly because of this, the middle annoyed me as Collette sort of spastically lurches from scene to scene in repressed horror trying to resolve the situation in dumb ways (sceance, etc.), which I guess I get in light of her grasping to deal with a terrible situation. Really liked the last twenty minutes when things just went full on crazy. So many creepy touches like Collette sawing her own head off to her body floating away to the corpses being posed in worship to the end song.
The grave tension of Collette and Byrne with the book resolving with Byrne suddenly bursting into flames took me by surprise and I started laughing out loud!
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Finally watched this, on Amazon Prime, and regardless of a lot of other thoughts and feelings I just can't think of another recent movie that kept me so constantly off-kilter. The use of colors, the instant day-to-night transitions, the instant location changes, it just all combined to keep me feeling uncomfortable and wrong-footed. Were the establishing exteriors actually tilt-shifted miniatures, or were they just shot that way to strengthen the metaphor regarding the miniatures that Annie makes?
I kinda want to watch it again, to see if Joan is visible at the funeral at the beginning.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
I did love how in all of the early scenes, up through the dinner scene, the only way Toni Collette and the son could talk to each other was by asking each other questions, without ever actually answering or making a statement.
I wish genre movies didn't get overlooked, she really did deserve an Oscar nod.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Again, genre movies don't get as overlooked as one might assume. Get Out won best screenplay the previous year, and was nominated for a ton of other things. And Toni Collette's single previous Oscar nomination was for The Sixth Sense. So it happens. But as much as the Oscars still denote some kind of symbolic victory, the important thing is that literally everybody recognizes Toni Collette's performance in this movie to be incredible.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 August 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
Hadn't seen this before. 30 minutes in. Paused until my anxiety attack settles down.
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 September 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
not being able to do this live is what made seeing this in a packed theater such a memorable experience
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 27 September 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
that was where my wife peaced out entirely iirc xp
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 September 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
Yea it's why as much as i loved it, a rewatch is not forthcoming
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 September 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
this movie was scary as fuck, and I have seen my fair share of horror flicks
I would rewatch just to try and figure some shit out, plus like Midsomar there are some great shots
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
creepiest parts:
smiling Peter in the glass reflectionmom banging her head against the attic doorfirst manifestations of the naked people*cluck*
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
the high speed decapitation and headless daughter sitting in car in driveway gave me nausea
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
every now and again, when half asleep going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, i get an image of the naked guy smiling in the corner and i have to banish it as quickly as possible as a dangerous brain worm
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
yup that was like Shining bear-suit level creepy
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 12 December 2020 02:49 (three years ago) link
I watched this last night and didn't get much from it. I dampened my feelings about Collette's suffering because it was basically too gruelling (the scene in the bedroom after she's discovered the daughter is precisely the scene that most movies leave out and for good reason - it was too much), which mostly meant I found the histrionics overpowering and they took me out of the film. The thunk as she sawed her own head off made me mutter a 'thank christ for that'.
I enjoyed the pacing of the first half, but the rapid speed of the final third made me think of a whole bunch of post-Conjuring films that mistake elevation for tension and maybe even psychedelia (Mandy absolutely doesn't fit this pattern).
What's stayed with me is the commentary on parenthood (much the same as its twin in gruelling misery, The Babadook) and the terror of failure, of passing one's neuroses and suffering on to your own kids. And reading this thread has definitely made me wish I'd seen it at the theatre. Awesome score, obvs.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 30 October 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
You gotta wonder
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClRkIjSvgrx/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
hmm. over/under $200?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
Under!
https://shop.a24films.com/products/hereditary-gingerbread-house
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link