Hereditary (2018 Horror Film) Official Thread

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

So you’d prefer it to have been a tad more ambiguous?

It's typically more effective (and therefore, scarier) when you have to make sense of what's happening, rather than being told, explicitly. If that makes any sense.

 

[HHR]

So you’d prefer it to have been a tad more ambiguous?

I don't think it would've been all that ambiguous if it ended 5 minutes earlier. But I think wrapping things up so neatly and concretely does a disservice to the themes of grief, family trauma, etc that are so well developed otherwise.

 

[Breh Obama]

The ending was necessary because the movie itself wasn't a horror movie until the ending.

 

[MartyMcFly]

I don't think it would've been all that ambiguous if it ended 5 minutes earlier. But I think wrapping things up so neatly and concretely does a disservice to the themes of grief, family trauma, etc that are so well developed otherwise.

shyt I didn’t think it was neatly wrapped up at all. For me, the ending left more questions than answers. And actually made it all seedier and worse because the family never stood a chance.

 

[MartyMcFly]

It's typically more effective (and therefore, scarier) when you have to make sense of what's happening, rather than being told, explicitly. If that makes any sense.

Well like I just said, the ending actually disturbed me more. Very much like rosemarys baby where the ending made the subtext obvious but just makes the whole thing worse for me. People being watched and in jeopardy like that always fukks with me. They never had a chance and it makes the whole thing nihilistic

 

[HHR]

shyt I didn’t think it was neatly wrapped up at all. For me, the ending left more questions than answers. And actually made it all seedier and worse because the family never stood a chance.

I will say, the ending did make me want to watch it again, to search for connections and to see the seeding of the final "reveal"

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Can someone explain how the mother figures out Charlie is dead? All you hear in the scene with Peter laying in bed is a muffled conversation and then sudden wailing.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Can someone explain how the mother figures out Charlie is dead? All you hear in the scene with Peter laying in bed is a muffled conversation and then sudden wailing.

They go to the car because it’s her car. Charlie’s body was still in the car with no head

 

[FlyRy]

This might be in my Top 10 if not for the wildly misjudged final scene

It's my #9 as of now but i do agree the last scene kept it from being an all timer.

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

They go to the car because it’s her car. Charlie’s body was still in the car with no head

 

[YakSpiller]

I don't get the ending at all...great movie tho.

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Movie is on Amazon Prime Video now, going to check it out this weekend.

 

[TheGodling]

I do think the ending scene is too "neat" compared to the rest of the film, but I wouldn't hold any points against the movie for it. I'm not sure where (or if) it lands on my top 10 though.

 

[detach]

Damn reading these replies got me spooked again. Only saw this movie and had me for a couple weeks at night.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I'm kinda glad I didn't see this in the theater. I don't think I would've been able to handle that part when they are coming home from the party. Don't think I ever been this disturb by a horror movie since I was a little child. Hell I can't think of many horror movies that left me stuck during the credits trying to process everything I just watched.
Don't know how well it holds up with repeated viewings but based off my first I got to give it a 5/5.