It has it flaws, but I really like it. Whenever Peter started crying like a 5 year child, I almost laughed out load. You have to have a little patience going into it, but I like slow burn movies which develop the characters. I am not sure what I think about the ending. I might have to rewatch it at some point during its theatrical release.

Nice one will have to keep my eye out for it, Unfortunately I live in a town without a picturetheatre

Holy hell, this movie was creepy as fuck! It gave me goosebumps, several times. Disgusting imagery, slow-burning fuckery, and some serious chills. There are so many paranormal jump scare movies out there that are total wank, but this one didn't have those dumb jump scares. This one wasn't paranormal so much as it was satanic, and I'm very happy that a theatrical horror film could frighten me so much.

Damn right this is a horror movie. 5 stars!

I finally saw this for the first time, just the other day. Then I watched it again late late late last night, as I was falling asleep. BAD MOVE. REALLY bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. Did I say it was a bad move? Because it was. Damn. No good dreams at all. At ALL.

I am trying to get caught up on... all kinds of things, this board included. Family stuff too, and general life crap... So anyway, I finally saw Hereditary, and also Midsommar for the first time... I know, that's pathetic, but at least I'm getting around to doing these things now.

It's hard to talk about Hereditary without spoiling it. People here seem to be being careful about that. We can say that it's a slow burn, and that the images are really effective... I certainly agree with both those things. I would also say that the writer/director seems to be good about both showing and telling. They say "show, don't tell: is a good maxim for moviemakers, and I agree with that. But he manages to do both, very well, I think. Like, having the Toni Collette character hash out her family history in group therapy, and then later with her new buddy Joan. She just did it so dramatically, I can't imagine anyone having big problems with it.

I agree that it is in the tradition of Rosemary's Baby, but I would add that it seemed even closer to Paranormal Activity... to me, at least. And, in a good way. Maybe some of the sequels, more than the original P.A.... they all kind of blur together for me.

Anyway, just in general... yeah! Great movie.

I never saw any of the Paranormal Activity movies, so I mostly compare it to Rosemary's Baby with some Exorcist imagery thrown in the mix. A late night viewing is bound to creep you out. I used to walk to work at 3AM when it was dark and creepy outside, and I'd always imagine that fat naked smiling dude watching me in the shadows.

Angry Video Game Nerd did his review on this a few years back and said pretty definitively that this was the scariest movie he's ever seen. I'll agree with that, and it still holds up on repeat viewings. Midsommar, however, does not. That movie was pretty dreadful the second time around, and I didn't even watch the super-long extended cut. Why would such a cut exist?!

I saw somewhere online (probably the trivia section on the IMDB page for Midsommar) that Swedish audiences just thought the whole movie was hilarious, they just laughed and laughed. It might have had a little street cred if it was made by a Swedish company, but Avi Aster is a Jewish dude from New York City, and they filmed the whole thing in Hungary, not Sweden. I mean, jeez... I do think it has some redeeming features, but it's nowhere near as good as Hereditary.

OK, now I can't stop thinking about this movie. And, it's getting pretty close to bedtime, soooo that's just beautiful. But, I just wanted to ask, does anyone have any thoughts on the nature of the daughter in the family? By her nature, I mean what the hell was she? Do you guys think she was half and half, a human girl and the demon? I'm leaning toward the theory that she was pretty much 100% demon right from the beginning, but she didn't fully understand that that was what she was.... I can't figure it out though. The way she panicked and went looking for her human older brother when she had that allergic reaction to the nuts in the chocolate cake, at the party, made her seem like a normal, human, scared girl. But, those spooky dolls she was always making implied at LEAST a deeply disturbed unconscious mind, if not necessarily that she was possessed at the time. Anyway, if anybody has any thoughts on this, I would like to hear them.

This is one I can’t wait to see! I love the trailer. Looks creepy without giving too much away.

it haunts me. i scarcely remember a film being able to do so. Toni Colette is on fire in this film.

i love this picture!

there is maybe one major complaint but it's climax spoilery, so

I saw it without knowing anything about it other than a lot of people liked it. But like with so many other modern horror movies, I thought it was terrible. It was boring and not scary, just like It Follows, which was another one tons of people rated highly.

I can't say your opinion surprises me. Is there an example of a modern horror movie you DO like?

None that I can think of right away. Some have been worse than others, but it seems like I'm always disappointed. Maybe when I hear so much praise I go in expecting too much. With Hereditary I think I was greatly misled by the title. I expected something that was transmitted genetically through a family bloodline (which is what the word hereditary implies - perhaps the filmmakers don't know the actual meaning of the word) like a parasite or mutation, or even homicidal tendencies like in The Bad Seed. But instead it was just more supernatural/satanic nonsense that we've seen so many times before. That sort of thing could never scare me in the first place because I've known there was no devil, demons, demonic posession, afterlife, souls or ghosts since I was a very young child. I'm the only person I know of who wasn't scared or disturbed by The Exorcist. To me it was just a very unfunny joke.

I've never viewed The Exorcist as a scary movie, but I do think it is a very good movie. Religious stuff doesn't affect me so much to begin with, but I still think movies like Exorcist, Rosemary, Omen, and Hereditary are very good and classy.

I like Toni Collette's character's workshop in Hereditary. The place where she made miniature stuff. It looked like such a cool place to be creative, with all har tools everywhere and little jars and boxes and caninets full of arts and crafts stuff. It would be a good "happy place" to be able to retreat to, when the horrors of life get too overwhelming. Her life had more than its share of horrors, of course.