Hereditary

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vice wrote:Watch the Trailer for 'Hereditary,' the Horror Movie That Traumatized Sundance
The A24 film has already been dubbed "a new generation's 'The Exorcist.'"

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival was pretty subdued, absent of the obvious Oscar darlings and record-setting bidding wars that we've come to expect from Park City every year. There were still a few standouts in the sea of modestly received films, like Boots Riley's wild Sorry to Bother You and that Mr. Rogers doc, but no movie from this year's crop managed to both amaze and completely terrify audiences quite like Hereditary.

Hereditary—which stars Toni Collette as a woman dealing with her young family's demons, both literally and figuratively—was praised as "a new generation's The Exorcist" by Time Out and "the most exciting movie" at Sundance by Variety. AV Club already dubbed it a top contender for scariest movie of the year.

On Tuesday we finally got our first glimpse of what everyone at Sundance seemed to be screaming about with Hereditary's first trailer—and, good lord, it looks like the critics weren't lying. The two-minute trailer doesn't give much of the plot away, but at one point, a young girl cuts the head off a dead bird, someone is briefly on fire, and there's a quick shot involving a swarm of ants on a sleeping body. All that aside, the trailer's scariest moments are the quiet shots of Collette as she slowly realizes that there's something foul in her bloodline. That whole thing with the realistic dollhouses is pretty freaky, too.

Hereditary was written and directed by first-time filmmaker Ari Aster. Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, and Milly Shapiro star alongside Collette, and 2018 Sundance MVP Ann Dowd makes an appearance in the trailer as well.

A24, which previously brought us the Sundance horror movie The Witch, is set to release the film in theaters on June 28, so we'll have to wait until summer to see if Hereditary really is the "pure emotional terrorism" everyone promises it will be. Until then, check out the trailer above.

Re: Hereditary

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this movie was fantastic. still thinking about it. lots to dive into, been reading interviews with the director over the weekend. he touches on some of the thought process, but certainly not everything. want to see it again soon. recommended.

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I liked it too, although it seems like something of a derivative grab bag in retrospect. A well done one though. Marketing did a great job of not giving away what's going on in it.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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completed yet another rewatch of this over the weekend. such a fantastic film. gets better every time. amazing that this was a debut film. there were a couple small things i could have done without (like the traveling light), and i'm not a huge fan of the casting of peter, but still a stunning film. love it hard.

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so a couple weeks ago i watched this entire thing in one sitting:


it's some really, really great work - and i mean a lot of work - by this guy doing deep analysis of the film. while there are a couple points that may be a bit of a stretch, nearly everything feels exactly right. really makes you realize how much attention to detail went into this film. like, so many little things that no one watching will ever even see, only people that do frame by frame analysis will notice, like this guy. there are also a couple things that he didn't mention in his analysis, so could easily be an addendum to it as well. really looking forward to his Midsommar analysis.

then later that night i watched the film yet again. it really does just get better every time. it's never going to be a 5-star film due to what i said above, but it's a solid 4.5-4.75 for me. watching the above analysis prior to the viewing just enhanced the enjoyment.