This is easily one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. I read some of the reviews criticizing it and I have no words for how shit your taste must be to not have enjoyed it. Thanks to the anon that recommended it, and everyone who gave it a bad review can go frick themselves for almost robbing me of this masterpiece
Solid 8/10 in the horror genre, but it's no masterpiece. I have seen it 3 or 4 times, and it gets a little worse and less interesting on each viewing. Masterpieces get better with each viewing.
By all means, name some better movies then,
In horror? No. Because you are likely under 25 and will rage against all of them like a sperg lord who just watch a movie and thought it was the best thing ever.
I'm 29, and name some movies or go frick yourself snob
Not him, but The Thing for starters is better.
I do, however, agree that Hereditary may as well be a "modern" masterpiece. It's up there with the best of them overall.
I also agree with the other anon that "horror buffs" under 25 are typically fricking moronic btw so his comment was fair enough
Anyone who says The Thing is a horror movie cannot be trusted to tie their own shoes, much less recommend a movie.
>The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.
name 1 actual horror movie
The Ghost That Went Boo!
shut up
don't care whatever, I want to know what kind of conception of horror someone who says The Thing isn't a horror movie has
Dunno about that anon but I've seen morons say that anything that isn't a ghost/demon/supernatural movie isn't horror
What type of horror are we talking about? C'mon don't go in full regard and expect amazing results
>muh slaughter vom vom barbies
yawn
The Thing is a better horror film than Hereditary but it is barely scary. It's more like a suspense or thriller.
Lol you don't know any, do you? Trying to sound smart is all well and good until you have to back it up
The Shining
Let the Right One In
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Antichrist
Possum
I'd all consider better. I'd also consider Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and the Wicker Man, better as dramas, but I don't particularly think they are all that scary. Likewise Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas, and Noroi (Pulse) are better at horror but not particularly drama.
>Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Incredibly based. A top 10 horror movie imo
this movie made me cry laughing during the school desk scene and when the caught on fire
are you 12?
Peak dishonest cinema. Make the audience uncomfortable by being as blunt and gratuitous as possible because it's a lot easier than being subtle. He stole from the Aronofsky rule book, both are israelites after all.
>dishonest this
>dishonest that
You are so fricking stupid.
great horror film. one of my favs. It perfectly balances between slow eerie horror and outright jump scare type horror. And it has all the beats and pace of a good drama.
Saw this in an almost empty theater and it freaked me out.
Had a similar experience with Suspiria (the new one).
solid 6.7/10 for me
I really enjoyed it. I can say it was one movie that gave me an uneasy feeling for almost the entire movie. Can’t say another film has done so in a long long time.
It’s like a 7/10 at best. Ari Aster movies blend too much of the drama with the “horror” but he doesn’t excel at either aspect, so his movies end up very boring to watch because the drama nor horror are really stand out aspects of the movie. This is very apparent in his other film, and when you watch the three hour long directors cut you really get a good glimpse of why this style just doesn’t work for him.
I completely and utterly disagree
t. Ari
Both the drama and horror were masterfully done. Pacing was perfect, both the vvitch and hereditary are excellent films and you are a tryhard contrarian moron.
what was "masterfully" done about the horror/drama? can you actually have a conversation without resorting to petty insults like an insecure child talking about how favorite mediocre movie?
Not that anon but the horror side had good imagery and a creepy atmosphere with a sense of being trapped.
On the drama side, I liked the family falling apart from the son getting the daughter killed and the mom holding it in for a while and then letting it all out at the dinner table. The plot with the grandma's estangement and then fascination with the daughter, then finding out what she was involved with, was cool too
I definitely think the death of the daughter was a high point of the movie, but none of the characters actually feel fleshed out enough to care about the drama aspects of the film, thats why im wondering why he is saying that it was "masterfully done".
also
>then finding out what she was involved with
are you talking about the grandmom or the mom? because iirc right at the start of the movie, they establish that the grandmom is part of the cult, so anything revolving around that doesn't feel like a shocking revelation, it's just drawing out things that you already picked up on earlier in the movie. if you're talking about the mom, i don't think she had anything to do with the cult. they mention another tragedy with the moms brother (?) but that is one hundred percent all on the grandmom, the mother had nothing to do with the cult or anything like that unless i'm misremembering things.
spoilers homie, what's the point of this post other than to blog a synopsis of the plot without contributing anything but a spoiler?
Shut the frick up you homosexual, this movie has been out for ages. Hopefully he saved someone some time by spoiling it so they don't have to watch it
I was under the assumption that everyone in the thread discussing the movie had seen the movie already
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST TALK ABOUT A MOVIE I HAVEN'T SEEN IN A THREAD ABOUT SAID MOVIE
frick off moron, you deserve to be spoiled for being an idiot.
The roadkill death scene is harrowing and pretty much personally attacked a lot of people between the ages of 18 - 30 I would assume.
>what was "masterfully" done about the horror/drama?
It got worse.
I don't really like this movie and think both the horror/drama aspects are pretty lackluster, however, I think the trama Dani feels throughout the movie over her did sister and how the drugs play into her fears is pretty great. I wish Ari would just go full drama instead of trying to do both horror and drama and not really nailing either in the movie.
>the vvitch
>excellent
Excellent at curing insomnia maybe
You're wrong. But Midsommar did suck. But also Director Cut > Theatrical Cut. But also it still sucked.
>Muh goetic demon
The interesting set ups were entirely in the family line and the support structure around the generational satanism throughout the town - none of them really paid off. Borderline helicopter parent Boomer mother sending her daughter to a high school party only to get anaphylaxed and decapitated en route back without an epipen was the only actual scare of the entire thing because it's dumb enough to be real people
5.4. Watchable, a little different enough to warrant passing interest. Not a lot there.
>a genre where people go out of their way to watch countless 3/10 movies
The bar is too low, and it needs to be raised back to Hitchwiener.
Midsommar failed to do the Wizard of Oz thing and go all in on there not being 'a sister' with what little actual occult material is there, and the contextual clues suggesting it heavily Not sure there's enough in whatever that 3+ hour rough cut to patch it or get me to slog through that again.
The live action Death Note should have been the death of the boy's career; miscast in this to the point where he looks like the Mother had an affair.
Severe psychological/character problems are typically matrilineal, to the extent they are heritable.
>Midsommar failed to do the Wizard of Oz thing and go all in on there not being 'a sister' with what little actual occult material is there, and the contextual clues suggesting it heavily Not sure there's enough in whatever that 3+ hour rough cut to patch it or get me to slog through that again.
What?
I liked it and the other A24 movies.
For a genre where people go out of their way to watch countless 3/10 movies, the amount of shit they give Hereditary is ridiculous.
They'll watch stupid shit like Killer Klowns from Outer Space and then scoff at something with some decent direction and plot to it.
majority of horror "fans" are morons whose synapses only fire when they see some cheesy body horror
Hereditary and Rosemary’s Baby are the best horror movies
i liked it too anon.. way better than midsommar
>My friend is so low IQ that he told me this was literally about mental illness and it's called Hereditary because the women have the illness plus magic isn't real so she imagined everything because she's crazy
He also voted for Trump btw. Also Midsommar is shit compared to this.
>he told me this was literally about mental illness
It literally IS about mental illness you fricking moron
It's about cult worship.
Would you say that “cult worship” is a hereditary condition?
Or could it be that mental illness is the hereditary condition and you’re moronic for ignoring the title of the movie?
Not him, but im fairly certain they are using 'Hereditary' in terms of inheritance of title, seeing as how all the events are leading towards creating a vessel for a demon lord.
If that was the case, then the uncle would have been the first potential vessel for the demon.
It’s also worth noting that the uncle was stated to be a known schizo (so is the main character, since schizophrenia is… hereditary )
Ok but they're not trying for a male vessel. They always wanted a female vessel
>If that was the case, then the uncle would have been the first potential vessel for the demon.
Refresh my memory on why this is so. I don't remember the timeline of events for the uncle in the film
>Ok but they're not trying for a male vessel. They always wanted a female vessel
No they always wanted a male vessel, but the demon was already in the little girl at birth. The cult had to make a switch/transfer
See
Im sorry but how did their son turn out to be brown?
this is the only horror film thats genuinely scared me. i watch a lot of horror and most of it leaves me unfased
It has aspects that are great but also some fricking moronic shit. Comes out as a very good horror overall but nothing. The Babadook on the other hand was a masterpiece and will be remembered for decades
I recently lived with a gf who was losing her mind. This was the first thing I thought of. That feeling of the walls closing in on you, someone you care about seeming to fall deeper into it, and trying to help but knowing you're wildly out of your depth.
The Blair Witch Project
I've been a fan of horror since I first saw my first Hammer movie back in the 70s, so not many things give me the chills anymore. But the Mother just being there in the corner of the Son's bedroom gave me goosebumps.
its good for the novelty of it - the occult mystery that it presents is really intriguing and unsettling. some of the overtness is also really insane, like putting an actual sigil to summon a demon in the movie without any shame...but as far as being a straight up movie goes it isn't perfect by any means
>the subtle parts meant to amuse
i fondly remember the grandma caressing her gold with a euphoric expression that drew a smilefromme
This was absolutely terrible. Why do you think it was good aside from hearing paid marketers say it was good?
Went in expecting gay reddit shit but I actually really enjoyed it, stuck with me for like two weeks afterward
It's not so much scary as much as it is depressing and a mood ruiner.
>MOMMYY!!! MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!
fricking morons lmao. "Oh the normal thing actually hides a spooky thing underneath, but it's slow" absolute mongs
It needed to be about 15 mins shorter.
It's a 6/10 shallow scarefest with zero depth or substance. The kind of thing people with an iq below 90 would consider a masterpiece.
>ugly weird child makes noises
>quick shot of decapitated head with the tongue sticking out and ants crawling on it
>suddenly he bursts into flames
>mom spiderman-ing in the corner of a ceiling sawing her head off
I really disliked it as a horror movie, as unintentional comedy it was entertaining. Also kept expecting some plot reveal about the son being adopted or from an extramarital affair, but I guess not.