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Hereditary (2018) https://letterboxd.com/smudgeefc1985/film/hereditary/


I'm always wary of horrors these days, as they fall back far too often on CGI and tropes in lieu of actually building any kind of tension. This film, this bloody film...it gets tension. It gets how to build it and build it. To the extent your heart is pounding out of your chest just desperately wanting this to all be over and you can go home to bed!

Yes there is a Rosemary's Baby-esque supernatural angle here (that I wont go any further into to avoid any spoilers) but all of the true horror on show here is pure psychological family breakdown horror. Some of the story is a little muddled, second half especially, but that pure visceral gut punches relating to that familial dysfunction...never seen anything like it.

Well worth your time. Oh, and pay attention. Everything is deliberate, what might seem like a throwaway shot or line is there on purpose and will be important later. Nothing in this film happens by accident.