Hereditary: Writing A True Horror Movie

[@Hehawmon]

Has anyone else noticed that horror as a genre is getting more and more respect recently? I see a lot less cheap scares and more atmosphere building.

[@augielowden266]

Yeah, I started noticing a shift after that Slenderman movie.

[@partycitydumpster]

I think it's partially because the world feels so crazy right now. Horror reflects societal fear, and our current level of collective anxiety permeates the genre (even when the movie/show isn't about large-scale societal issues). It's like we're taking it more seriously.

[@sh4rkb4it79]

Instrumentality1000 exactly! Jump scares causes terror, not horror

[@craigsbenedict]

The ring had a few cheap scares but ultimately it was 100% atmosphere and fear of the unknown. It may be because i watched it at 13 years old but it seems like the best horror i've seen. Edit: What i love most about it is that the "Understanding" stage is subverted so expertly in the final minutes. "Oh, but I do, and it wont stop."

[@danielplacido8746]

hell no. the sheer amount of shitty horror still overwhelms the industry by quantity. are we getting more good horror recently, in absolute numbers? hell yeah. it seems horror is going through a revamp such as it went through in the 70s, after an era of clichés. that's awesome!

[@sophonax661]

The Annihilation soundtrack gets me everywhere at any time.. so cool

[@mjolninja9358]

It really sends of a fucked up vibe

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

yep love it as well!

[@EvilDogFilmsOfficial]

Hell yeah I was gonna comment about the annihilation ost, it conveys such a feeling of facing the unknown

[@sophonax661]

@@EvilDogFilmsOfficial lol yeah, the book conveys that feeling too

[@tappajavittu]

Me being from not the most functional family, horror movies like the Shining, the VVitch, Hereditary and such that are more about families being torn apart are the most effective. Most terrifying scene in Hereditary for me was the dinner scene, holy hell was it magnificent.

[@antoniettabombardelli8868]

And the acting, god!

[@JD-uo4yh]

@@antoniettabombardelli8868 I still cannot believe Toni Collete was not given an oscar for that role.

[@raulescamilla9089]

Yea, Toni Collette is terribly underrated, but absolutely sells it as a lead actor. Her hidden gifts are as seamless as a sharpshooter lying still in a gili suit (sniper camouflage).

[@samskott2344]

I watched Hereditary for the first time almost 2 weeks ago and I simply can't stop thinking about it. It got under my skin for at least a week and now I appreciate it as one of the best films to come out in the last 10-15 years.

[@Slechy_Lesh]

Everyone talking about a week or a month, I was directly panicked by the dark for at least a year after

[@Em0srawk]

Can confirm this video is free of jumpscares, for anyone like me that worries about that stuff :p

[@yutarokida]

Thank you, I don't want to see or hear eanything from THAT scene

[@vornamenachname989]

@@yutarokida May I ask, which one? The one where the thing is on the ceiling? Tbh everytime that click happened I almost got a heart attack

[@doyouknow4448]

This background music is so mesmerizing.

[@mus_tard2183]

Annihilation my man

[@CubeParrot1]

So is the movie from where it came.

[@tofansaheli5032]

One of the most underrated story analysis channels. Amazing content keep it up!

[@softevilkitten]

Or you could go with the Eastern storytelling style for horror and focus on the powerlessness. Take the the ring for example (any version). There is no unknown, the movie tricks you into thinking that there is a way out when there is none. So even though I agree that hereditary is an amazing movie. I think keeping in mind many other great styles of horror is important to keep things interesting.

[@blahblahblahblahbla2705]

Ahem...that's exactly hat hereditary did?

[@blahblahblahblahbla2705]

Or the VVitch for that matter. Or the Shining. The greatest horror cinema ever.

[@shadowninja958]

blahblah blahblahb la I think the shining and many other films have developed this cult like status and while I'm not denying that it's a good film I don't think it's the greatest ever. It's good to see people passionate about what they love though 😁😁

[@KatherinaBathory]

I agree and disagree at the same time. Eastern horror does focus on the hopelessness and that's very unnerving... But there is a lot of unknown too, the fact that's not framed as a "mystery" all the time just makes it a different type of unknown. Take the grudge, for example, in which even though the movie creates tension by showing you things the characters don't know (as Hitchcock would love), that doesn't meant that the audience "really" knows the whole picture. The insert just enough of things that would make you question yourself for you to go second guessing. They show you the ghosts but they keep they "rules" of how they behave and why vague and sometimes seemingly inconsistent. In one of the "the grudge" the lead character was hunted before reaching the cursed house. That's understandable if you think that ghosts do not experience time in the same way we do, which is a common belief in the east too, but even knowing that, it is very surprising and somewhat inconsistent, and that's makes it creepy as hell. Even in Ringu birthday (or Ringu 0), when you learn pretty much all the backstory (and it is truly more of a character study and a detective movie at times than a horror movie) when the demon "side" of sadako possess the "human" sadako is when the movie becomes fully a horror movie, because then it becomes both, completely hopeless and terribly tragic AND a meeting with a demon girl whose behaviour eludes our understanding. She is just not human, and does not abide by human rationale. So even though you "know" everything, at that very moment you know a lot, and at the same time, you know nothing.

[@maxpickett7485]

The wailing is a wonderful example of this

[@bruxtiabiturix]

Honestly, this put into context what I love about the first four Silent Hill games. Each of those stories leave you knowing little except for who the characters are and why they're doing what they're doing. The town itself is shrouded in mystery; allowing the audience to never know how to deal with it, and only learning more about the suffering it and those who've toyed with the town's spiritual power have caused and dealt with. Even in the climax of each game, it leaves you only hoping that what you're doing through these events works, as it provides little to no clear path for anything.

[@WeeLin]

Excellent breakdown of the storytelling conventions of horror as a genre - I don't think I've ever heard it articulated so well. It also made me think about why so many horror films have such an interesting set up but completely fall flat during the climax (as you put it, treating the plot like an action flick when it's not). Character-driven horror is what I love to talk about, and hear other people's takes on, so I really hope you do more videos on this in the future. Hereditary was fantastic, mostly for its characters and performances, plus the execution and aftermath of "that" scene will probably haunt me forever! Great video, and I'm glad I discovered your channel.

[@3VILmonkey]

What makes Hereditary a truly great film is the superb acting. The actors outdid themselves.

[@Jim-gk4so]

Let’s take a moment to appreciate how this is such a good way of structuring a horror movie.

[@benjaminmorris9688]

What I found great about Hereditary was the fact it relied on more visual storytelling with regards to exploring the "horror" elements; it gave us the same limited information as the characters. We experienced it with them, as this video explained. Nothing kills suspense like an overly accommodating narrator. I can't count the horror films in which someone reads aloud from an ancient book to provide all the answers, or a mysterious stranger straight up tells everyone (including the audience) exactly what's happening and how to overcome it. Good horror should keep you in the dark until it HAS to turn on the lights, even then it doesn't have to be more than striking a metaphorical match. Take Lovecraft's work, for example. In The Dunwich Horror, The Nameless City, and The Festival (to name a few) we get the perspective of a skeptic or curious intellectual who is allowed a glimpse of something forbidden, or unfathomable. We are never given the full picture because there's little frame of reference within the stories themselves beyond vague, half-forgotten folklore. It's that oppressive unknown that gives those stories weight. The same is true for Hereditary.

[@ToastyJunebugs]

Hereditary is my favorite horror movie. I liked Midsommar, too. Not as much, though I do want to see it again to catch anything I didn't see the first time.

[@inferno0020]

To be honest, I think Hereditary is one of the best horrors I have watched because it is personal but I am fine if people don't like it. The level of Hereditary's horror is directly related to how much you identify with the Graham's Family. If you don't feel the pain and frustration of the Grahams, you won't find the movies terrifying.

[@inferno0020]

that is why i am not a big fan of Midsommar. The scenes are beautiful, but it is hard for me to identify with Dani and his dumb-dumb boyfriend.

[@Moopafoop]

Horror movies never scare me. Hereditary terrified me.

[@mjolninja9358]

It creeped me

[@pipitameruje]

I'm not into horror and I usually stay far away from horror movies. My hyperactive imagination, plus living alone, often keeps me awake for several days after a horror movie, which just makes it worse. I do like suspense and thrillers, just not flat out horror. I hate jump scares. Hereditary was the first horror movie I was even curious about. It's also the first horror movie I ever liked, and actually enjoyed. It had the right atmosphere, it was creepy from the get go, and I was terrified, but I enjoyed it. There was depth, there was a realness to it. I could barely stay in my own skin for the last fifteen minutes or so, but there was something there to keep me hooked. I wanted to look away and yet I couldn't, because I wanted to know. Bottom line is: I now want to watch more horror. I now know that there's a way to enjoy being scared shitless through a screen. And it's all Ari Aster's fault.

[@yohtan]

I straight up didn't sleep for a week after watching it.

[@desireandfire]

the death of the young daughter fucked me up so much deaths of children or animals is so ficking horrific. after she died he knew, and he just drove home, walked into the room and slept. imagine the terror and numbness he must've felt. and his mother had to find her headless body. it's so barbaric and horrendous

[@clintdona4586]

Horror movies do sometimes scare me, but usually the uneasy feeling goes away after the movie’s done. But Hereditary made me feel extremely uncomfortable for a long time afterwards. I was literally terrified. It was so weird and I still get scared when I hear that one song lmao

[@MrThankman360]

Oculus is an under appreciated horror movie.

[@nicholasbarker8596]

The Conjuring 2, The Babadook and Hereditary are my 3 favourite recent horror films and are in my top 5 of all time, topped by The Shining with The Orphanage in 5th place

[@monicavelazquezrodriguez3035]

The Babadook is beautiful.

[@TT-wx4tg]

Great Vid thanks! Hereditary weakens with multiple views for me personally, but first viewing was amazing - Tony Collette 'brought it' big time, watching her suffer was horrific and her performance holds this together no doubt and no award would do her justice.

[@inigoquixote5451]

This movie is a masterpiece. From the first time I watched it it became one of my favorite movies.

[@seanmcclure]

When you can carry the unknown halfway through the third phase you know you have created a great film.

[@mazder360]

I really appreciate you, I'm not big into horror, but I've considered seeing this, but I also wanted to see what you had to say, and you breaking this down without going into detail is the best

[@wvrym]

Just found your channel and I'm really enjoying your breakdowns of writing conventions. This video explained why horror movies frustrate and often bore me, which I've never been able to understand. Thank you! Keep up the excellent work.

[@nillawraith]

great analysis really made em appreciate the movie even more

[@lordodysseus]

Fun fact: the most terrifying thing in the universe 1.5 kgs and it lives behind your eyes.

[@ЮлианМацкевич]

Hating on "Sinister" and praising "Insidious" - that is something I see often and will never understand

[@drartemisa21]

Great video! You should definitely do Midsommar! I can never forget the feelings I went through watching it the forst time.

[@dandyman7819]

2:49 Has this guy never watched "The Thing" (1982)?! I was absolutely blown away by The Thing, and arguably executes some of the concepts mentioned in this video better than Hereditary does.

[@bugynites09]

So why is Hollywood giving away everything in the trailers. It seems counterintuitive? Maybe this is why movies are receiving bad reviews.

[@deyomash]

Sinister did truly terrify me. And I am a hard-core horror fan that despites cheap fake- jumpscares. Other things terrify me and make me feel sick-tensed is the more real, the "better". SAW, hostel, human centipede. Might be strange, but those films hit me.

[@Choppacity80491]

I was truly scared when I saw this no lie I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

[@aujax1]

the exorcist and the shining are the two all-time pinnacles of horror. no one has made a better film to date.

[@gwroly]

Bullshit

[@notthis9586]

@@gwroly agreed

[@valley_robot]

Eden lake , martyrs , confessions, vivarium ,funny games , watch those films and come back and tell me what you thought, I used to think the shining was the most terrifying film I had ever watched , but there are many more films I have watched since the 70s and 80s and the films I have recommended are very good horror films that I rate really high , the exorcist was great .

[@TinyPple45]

One of the favorite horror movies in my family is Blair witch project, which I get is like the most basic one to like but I think the real thing that that movie tapped into that nobody else tbh really has since is the feeling of being completely empathetic with the characters Like other found footage movies will have scenes that you can see the script for in your head and it’s just so hard to suspend disbelief at the whole situation, but my favorite thing about Blair witch is how they made it by basically just tossing the actors into the woods and occasionally sending them motivation shit through tubes😂😂 like ONE scene in particular where one of the leads is running around screaming in the middle of the night and the actress following him with the camera legitimately being like “wtf is happening what are you doing!?!??!!!” That’s fear that translates to the audience and I love it and I will never be over it Like I love horror stories that tap into real human superstition like how the omen just makes you feel like sometimes there really is judgement and fate and divine retribution and all that Christian guilt misery there is to that, like Good Film Making, seeing an idea carried out on screen that you can just Feel, when horror gets that right it gets it soooo right😩

[@moogamooga2100]

Brilliant points. Well said!

[@Nemo-Nihil]

I think that's why I love Bloodborne. It is a horror game and yeah it has it's jumpscares but by making it an action role playing game you invest yourself in the story, in unraveling the mystery of Yharnam. And even at the end, I still don't know what happened. There are still parts of the game that scare me because they are so shrouded in mystery.

[@knight.99]

This is a really good film and it'll be a classic and studied for many decades

[@markchild1621]

So THAT'S why it was soo fitting to watch The VVitch followed by Hereditary! I have yet to watch Annihilation though. :/

[@Nemo-Nihil]

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. - H. P. Lovecraft

[@lillydevil2486]

There is too much 'defeating the antagonist' and not enough 'surviving the antagonist'. There's too many brave or lucky warriors taking out dracula and saving the village maidens. Too many convenient shots of a harpoon to take down jaws or blow up a gas tank and blow the monster sky high. In the short story 'The Quiet Boy' (the very same they based the movie 'Antlers' off of), there is no defeat of the big bad. Our protagonist doesn't even live passed them. It's told more like a tragedy, or an almost-survivor's story than a typical 'win' against the antagonist. And that's because horror, when it's 'real', is way more efficient at scaring people. Fear of the unknown isn't just fear of the dark or of the things you do not know, it's about the human connection. We don't fear a feeble, dementia-ridden grandmother trying to bat at us with a rake in broad daylight because 1. We know what it is and 2. It can't really do us any harm. Not really. But switch out the grandmother for a mother bear getting hostile because she thinks you're about to body her cubs and I'd imagine even a full grown man wouldn't want to tango with that empty-handed. I used to be a fan of creepypasta back in the early days of the internet, because the earlier ones took advantage of the pre-'everyone can google and find out anything' era. The 'true' internet campfire stories. Because whose to say the Smile Dog picture didn't actually do what it was said to do? Whose to say there isn't a faceless, suited creature from German folklore that steals children? But then as people started finding this niche storytelling and ruining it with their sh!t writing and their need to be edgy and the internet became a haven of knowledge where you can figure out every origin of everything EVER, I found Reddit. And not specifically just Reddit, but their Let's Not Meet subreddit. A subreddit specifically about those who have had a brush with the creepy or a brush with death and have survived. And every single one of them are written in such a different way than a creepypasta is, because they're REAL. And 95% of these Let's Not Meet stories never have the 'we beat the bad guy'. The bad guys are creepy stalkers that follow you home from the bus, the guy that cuts your kids screen and tries to convince them to come play outside with them, or the well-dressed woman that picks up a baby in a park or parking lot and cries kidnapper when the real parent tries to get their kid back. Because if we have 'we beat the bad guy' endings, it brings us comfort. And comfort is the opposite of horror. It's giving us ground. We have taken one of the bad guys chess pieces. The best horror doesn't have a happy ending. The monster doesn't magically take out the p*do and coincidentally gets blasted by an explosion. It doesn't end 'complete'. It's movies like Eden Lake, or Fry Day, or the Tunnel

[@HxH2011DRA]

I can't watch horror movies because I'm a scared little baby XD

[@HxH2011DRA]

@Nicholas ooooooo interesting~

[@justinstark5732]

2:34, but I like sinister

[@mgkpraesi]

Havent seen a Horror Movie in 20 Years that scared me.

[@james.a.delancey]

Hi, that was great, thank you. It really helped me a lot when working on a pitch :) Greetings from Berlin

[@robertpritchard9962]

The unknown is not in itself scary. Here's something that's unknown: the fate of Amelia Earhart. Scared yet? The unknown may *contain* something scary. E.g., a dark room can be scary because there may be something scary inside it. But it is the scary things (spiders, ghosts, whatever) that may be inside the dark room that make the it scary, not simply the fact of having limited knowledge of what's there. Horror movies usually contain unknown things, at least initially, which adds to the confusion as many mistake the fact that something is unknown or uncertain as the source of the fear. The reason movies like Hereditary scare people is because people are afraid of the things those movies depict. Hereditary depicts the death of a child--many people fear the deaths of their own children. They don't fear "the unknown" but, rather, a specific thing that may happen. Whether a child will die or not is unknown, but it is the death that is scary, not the fact of not knowing whether it will happen or not. The reason the resolution phase of the movie often ruins the fear is because the source of the fear is revealed to be something that you personally are not afraid of. If your fears are connected with family relationships, during the early parts of the movie you may imagine those things are the source of the horror, but if at the end it's revealed to be just the ghost of a pirate or whatever, and you're not afraid of ghosts, then the fear, for you, is ruined. Movies like Hereditary, the Babadook, the Witch, and other "arty" type horror movies receive good reviews from "intellectual," or "sophisticated" audiences like those who make youtube film essays, is because the scary things they depict scare them. Their own fears are related to family dynamics, terminal illness, insanity, dementia, so a movie that's just about a ghost haunting people, where the ghost is a purely external force, isn't going to appeal to them because there's nothing intellectual about that, but it may appeal to a less educated audience or one culturally conditioned to fear spirits. But again, the source of the fear is not just the fact that it's unknown, but the nature of that which is unknown.

[@vivianamuntean146]

An antagonist can only be a character. Something that's not a character that's in opposition to the protagonist is a conflict.

[@jennacurran687]

My favorite horror of all time as well!!

[@LetsTalkOnePiece]

0:25 not to mention ripped off from lord of the rings.

[@TheKarret]

idk if it's good enough to get its own video or anything, but I'm curious to know others' opinions on the move The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh... I really liked it, even though it was kinda slow and not much happened in it... something about it stuck with me... I won't say it was OMG SO TERRIFYING, but it had its scary moments, and idk, I really liked it, but I never hear it talked about. :Va

[@taylortimeless]

Just noticed the horror script I wrote is also more focused on the characters than horror. It’s almost like a horror drama.

[@dagmawidawit8743]

You should make a video on midsommar

[@shanioligaou9006]

most people who comment on here " I need to appreciate movies like hereditary so that I can tell myself and the world what an intellectual guy I am, if I appreciate halloween then I might be called as a dumb guy" #pseudointellectual

[@justthinkingoutloud2538]

This challenge is why Season 1 of Stranger Things is by far the best. Once you know what’s going on, there no real suspense, and you realize how ridiculous everything is.

[@_nutcracker]

I seen the rise of interest in horror and personally i understand why The intensity of media has been increased over time We simply craved more dynamics and violence of every nature as time went on And guess what horror ever stood for, provoked viewers

[@aresx666]

Yo using The Conjuring 2 as an example of good horror it's kind of silly I laughed my ass off during that movie in the theater it Was so blatantly obvious in it's themes and structure that I would hardly even argue using it in the same sentence as hereditary as a valid point but you had a good video here and I agree with what your points were overall

[@michealvega1373]

Conjuring 2 moved me profoundly so 💁🏾‍♂️

[@TimesComingMedia]

Where's your book? the link doesn't work.

[@PhysiqueWildCard]

Brilliant

[@Chris-jw8vm]

2:20 Wait theres a Darth Maul horror movie?

[@brightdreamsfilms3446]

yeah, that movie is insidious (2010) by james wan

[@thewhitewolf58]

I don't find it a horror movie I mean it can be creepy at times but doesn't have what it takes to be a horror even when it tries to shock me and doesn't work

[@jeremieherard2166]

The Witcher III 's Gaunter O'Dimm

[@Zachary_Sweis]

Fantastic film. Fantastic video. Though, a warning would have been nice for those of us who are enormously, debilitatingly arachnophobic.

[@gamingtime468]

3:32

[@hexipo2352]

I really didn’t find hereditary scary at all. And what the hell was that ending? The only bit that I really liked which arguably is a jump scare is all the dead standing outside. Personally I thought the most recent great horror of late is The conjuring 1 and 2

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

Yeah to me it was more of a depression movie than a horror movie and it felt like it didn’t have slow burn scares either

[@belleville1805]

The begining is so good, fear of God I think is the great fear of this unknow thing. They always teach us to fear God, no love him and respect him.

[@joetheperformer]

I always knew this about horror movies but couldn’t articulate it. I hated bloody, gory movies that considered itself “horror”. Those are cheap scare flicks. True horror movies are very psychological, IMO. The scariest ones don’t have blood in it, few cheap scare tactics. They don’t even have violence in it. The scariest horror movies rely most of all upon tension. The anticipation that something terrible might happen at any moment.

[@JL-hy5wd]

I see you're using the annihilation soundtrack that freaks the crap out of me

[@edgelordrob]

Get out was a crazy good movie js

[@TheNovashenlong]

Actually, I thought the movie was terrible. It didn't manage to scare or entertain me. Basically I just tried to stay with it and dragged myself through because it was recommended by Savage Books. In my opinion it was a boring drama with unlikable characters - so unlikable I didn't even care when one died. Then in the end you get a bit of the horror part which was ok-ish by it self. I would give the movie a 4 out of 10. 4 for the great acting of the mother and the effort.

[@ursidae97]

To me the best way to overcome "Knowing" being the thing to end the fear, is simply to make the knowledge scary. In the Nun we learn that the villain can be defeated with a McGuffin. It doesn't make the audience more scared to know that the villain is kind of a little bitch. But in Uzumaki, the terror of having no idea why the town is becoming possessed by the spiral shape is not alleviated by knowing that the source is an interdimensional being, or perhaps society, that is preying upon the town, as this force is so overwhelming and seemingly unstoppable. Had we learned that the Nun had gone to great lengths in her own story to become immune to Christ's blood, the story would remain scary as the characters learn this and loose hope in their struggle.

[@gianthills]

I don't see this movie as a horror. It's a drama taken to extremes. It's about a dysfunctional family, period. There is no monster. The family itself is the monster. The satanic cult cliche is hardly original.

[@Chris-jw8vm]

I seem to be the only fucker that watched this film and didn't like it. Anyone else here? The first 30 or so minutes was interesting. A guy forced by his mum to bring his little sister to a party accidentally beheads her. But after that I just felt like the whole story was plodding along. We got hints as to wtf was going on but it wasn't enough to earn that ending. How the fuck was I to guess that the little girl was really the fucking demon prince of hell or some shit all along and that everything was all part of her and her grandmas master plan or whatever. Felt kinda like the horror movie equivalent to oscar bait.

[@crabqueenleah]

Can you, like, not put pictures of spiders in front of my face without a warning?

[@jadenpotts4389]

MORE SUBS NOW

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Alien

[@notthis9586]

Huh I thought Sinister was pretty good...

[@plisskenetic]

I've loved horror movies to a point they don't scare me, and I HATED hereditary - hated all the characters and didn't care for them and wasn't scary/ terrified. It was so slow and boring. True horror movie my ass

[@SesshoMaruFTW01]

Am I the only one who loved this movie right up until the ending? Like it was very cheeky with its supernatural elements and it made you think it was all the mom’s mania but in the last 5 minutes it gets so goofy and that exposition dump??? Terrible if you ask me.

[@deadlulaby]

I just watched this and was wondering if the mothers acting affected your immersion like it did mine? Apparently she's never acted in horror before and it showed since most of her reactions were more funny to me than anything. Ps- love the use of the Annihilation soundtrack

[@JatinderGill9]

can't agree, I loved her in it

[@ectoplasmjames_]

toni collette's been in a bunch of horror movies

[@ToastyJunebugs]

I felt that Toni in this movie was wholly human. Like the dinner scene where she's screaming at Peter she says and acts ways an extremely angry person who also suffers from anxiety and depression would: irrationally and sometimes you say things that only make sense in your own head (like "You always have that stupid face on your face!!!").

[@cyan3714]

How do you make a 9 minute video about a movie and not talk about the movie

[@RMHoocra]

I may get slated for this but I didnt this hereditary was scary or even that great. Just another movie that I would forget about the next day

[@johnsullivan3444]

Hereditary is your favourite horror movie? It only came out last year. I liked your video but I dont think youve seen a lot of movies. :/

[@DuragAllDay]

K

[@DownWithBureaucracy]

Hereditary was great for me until the supernatural stuff came into play. Just the existential horror of having accidentally killed your own sister/child had me. The supernatural cult stuff just didn't do it for me. Great video though, really helps in analyzing horror films

[@BrandonNinja]

I didn't like this one.

[@ampdarts850]

Idk what yall are on that yall think this movie was good or even scary. I feel so gaslighted lol. Ive watched it maybe 5 times? Its so bad what are you seeing!!

[@plisskenetic]

Hereditary is bloody overrated AF! It got only gets praise of of Tony's performance. If it was played by someone of lesser talent the world would've seen this movie for what it was - average stuff.

[@digitalwayfarer7404]

Yeah, strongly agree. I watched it because of this video and was not impressed. The female lead gave a very strong performance, but the plot was... disappointingly average.

[@josearmandogomezrocabado537]

I slept in this movie....did someone really got scared?

[@antoniettabombardelli8868]

Yes, someone like Scorsese, Bong joon ho. But those are average directors, unlike you.

[@josearmandogomezrocabado537]

@@antoniettabombardelli8868 lol, you need to be a director to get scared?? Calm down girl, if you liked, you liked 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@antoniettabombardelli8868]

@@josearmandogomezrocabado537 lol, I didn't say that, I said people who know about cinema themselves understand this movie, even regular people. You slept during the accident? I don't think so.

[@valdenay7264]

The Babadook is terrible and awfully boring, and the conjuring was really predictable. If hereditary is like those, then understandably I can understand why it didnt get very far in the awards seasons

[@dannyeremenko3799]

Val DeNay lol

[@SandvichMuncher]

Honestly the movie was so incredibly immersive and gripping for the majority of the film. It was the ending that killed it for me. The most part of the film is completely worth the watch and positive recognition, if you could somehow watch it without the last 10 mins or so it's really a great time

[@valdenay7264]

@@SandvichMuncher meh. I finally watched it today. With the exception of Peter's crying at the seance, the acting was amazing from EVERYone. I love the way it's shot & edited. But the pacing & story just...eh. I feel & think I made an accurate prediction 10 months ago

[@SandvichMuncher]

Val DeNay fair enough man, it's not gonna appeal to everyone. That's super cool you have it a shot though!

[@philmetal9604]

Hereditary was bad. The only real unknown in the movie was the plot. The end had nothing to do with the rest of the movie. Just about all modern horror movies are crap.

[@rosechannn9260]

did you not fucking notice the set up of the cult or are you just that dumb

[@Woolydroidart]

Annihilation anyone

[@firstroundko108]

You missed a ton of clues and foreshadowing. I suggest watching a second time. There are hints everywhere.

[@AKM93]

Horror movies are a joke these days. As someone said it's all based on this silly concept : does this image terrify you? (With a nun figure or whatever) you get desentized to those crappy things so fast. Honestly the horror move that actually scared me was Hereditary. I didn't know what horror was before I watched it I think.