OMG you guys!!!!! Why did I watch this at night when you guys specifically said NOT to ughhh lol no I’m scared to turn my lights on/off at night now smh lol anyways, as usual, you guys are awesome!!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘💯💯💯
Yup, it's not "the kids went into the abandoned house" or "people refuse to leave a horrifying situation for dumb reasons", it's just a family trying to live their tragic life and having every aspect of it being manipulated by forces without them even knowing, they just assume the weird things happening to them is some kind of mental illness they have and so they don't talk about it and don't realize that there could potentially be a way to stop this. If they had known there was some sort of plot against them, they could have taken some action against it (leave the house, go into hiding, etc), but they are unaware until it's too late to do anything (and even then by that point there is so much distrust among them that the dad still was trying to be rational, and still thought it was all mental illness), and that's what's so scary: we are watching them fall so slowly into the trap, and they don't even know it's happening until they are firmly in it and can't get out
@@thesyndrome43 I always got the impression that everything had been planned out and that they had no choice but you are right this movie is 2+ hours of discomfort , unease and dread
Toni's screams during her grief over her daughter are the single most chilling part of this entire film. You can tell the character is going through the most immense pain possible.
Ari Aster must understand grief. I felt the same in Midsommar when she is crying about the death of her family on the couch. The pure guttural pain. That feeling in itself is horror.
"I don't even want to watch this anymore!" That could be the tag line for Hereditary 😂😭 Such a horrifying and disturbing movie, and one the best horror movies in the last 25 years
this Is the only movie that I had to call a friend because I drove home alone after, and weirdly enough my family was asleep very early to what they usually do and everything was pitch black, definitely didn't help
there's a theory that the reason Annie tried to kill Peter and Charlie while sleepwalking is because she subconsciously knew what her mom was trying to do, and she was trying to spare them. this movie is so brilliantly written that I've picked up on so many things even after a few reaction videos. thanks so much for suffering through this for us ❤️
that's not a theory that's the literal story lol. she told the son she never wanted to have him because she knew if she did he would become the eventual leader of the cult. it's all really a metaphor about mental issues and the toxic qualities/traits we inherit from our predecessors though...
Annie was influenced by her mother's power, but she did not realize it. Her Mother had complete control over her (and Peter, Charlie, Steve, Annie's brother and father) daughter mentally, and Annie was blind to it.
Toni Collette should totally gotten an Oscar for this role. The son was amazing too. Also early on in the "Mourners Anonymous" meeting, Annie mentions her Schizo brother wrote in his note accusing his mother of trying to put people inside of him. At first you're like wtf! And later you're like ahh haa!
Yup, the hereditary aspect of mental illness, as the movie title implies, is entirely a misdirection. No one was ever crazy, it's just that when dealing with supernatural things, yourself and people around you will assume you're going crazy or will try to rationalize it, like the dad. The grandmother was really trying to use her own son as a vessel for Paimon, so he wasn't schizo for believing she was trying "to put people in him". The grandfather dying of starvation could easily have been the result of a curse to get rid of him. The grandmother probably didn't have dementia, but was doing incredibly weird stuff involving occultism in preparation for her passing I'm sure she had foreseen. Charlie, who appears on the spectrum, is actually Paimon himself with a child's mind, not quite understanding the world he's in. With this familly "history", Annie thought she may be susceptible to insanity, but never was either. Her sleepwalking could be her subconscious or some "other forces" trying to kill Peter and Charlie to prevent Paimon's coming. So absolutely clever. A 2nd watch really makes some of this more obvious, and how ever present the cult is from beginning to end.
It's hard to spot them all on the first viewing as there's so many hidden little things, but here's a small list of what you may have missed that are meaningful and brings much more to the story: 1) Right after the funeral, when they come home, if you turn up the volume, you can hear people walking upstairs. 2) The father was a psycologist and Annie was her patient before(very hard to spot) 3) The doll house effect was purposely there to show you that the characters have absolutly no will and they are being controlled what ever they do. 4) The first time we see Peter in the class, we hear about the story of Heracles and how everyone is inevitable, even one of the student says: "I think it’s more tragic - because if it’s all just inevitable, that means the characters have no hope and that they never had hope, because they’re just like pawns in this horrible, hopeless machine.” Well, that was a nice summary of the plot of the movie. 5) When it's night and Peter wake's up at the end, the mom is in the top left corner of the room watching him 6) If you look at the Picture of Paimon, he's holding 3 heads (grandma, mom, daughter) and he's holding a cane that is an arm pointing. When Peter got possessed in class, his arm went up like the cane. 7) Annie spill up a bottle in one scene, well, if you look again, annie never touched it. 8) When Peter is smoking under the stairs with his friends, he start choking, that's because one of the friends passed him a joint. That joint was made with the same herb they described in the book and was necessary for allowing a possession. That's when he became vulnerable to being possessed. Also, at the end, you can see that the friend who gave him the joint is bowing with the other members in the treehouse. 9) When Charlie is walking outside and see the grandma (it was the grandma's body) around the fire, you can see the footprints on the ground, which means the cult member placed the grandmother over there, it was not a dream or an illusion. 10) When the mail slide throught the door, you can see a pamplet about a seance. They tried to influence Annie, but she didnt go. After that, Joan went straight to her in the parking. 11) The smiling man was the same naked man in the doorway at the end 12) What Joan screams at Peter is the three words that you can see on the walls in the house: Satony, Degony, Eparigon Everything was planned, every scenes, every dialogs, every camera angles. That movie was one of the best crafted movie of all time. It is a cinematographic masterpiece.
You should see The Wailing if you haven't already. Same kind of intricate and meticulous craftsmanship. Same kind of relentless, oppressing terror. It also has loads of ambiguous little hints and symbolism spread out all over the movie, most of which you'd never catch on the first viewing. If I remember correctly the director worked 10 years or so on the script to get all the details right.
The bang sound at the very end after Peter wakes up and starts to walk around is the piano wire breaking as Annie removes it from the piano to decapitate herself. Not just a random bang jump scare sound. Every part of this movie fits the story; no extra shit. Jigsaw puzzle..
Holy crap, most of those I knew about but the cane and the friend with the joint were mind blowing to me. I don't understand #7 though; what scene was that?
@Steelburgh it's the scene right before she decides to visit Joanne for the first time. Annie is reaching for a paint, and then the blue further away is suddenly knocked over despite her hand not being anywhere near it. The blue paint just so happens to run onto the note with Joanne's info, coercing Annie into going to see her
When she said “what a sweet lady” and y’all were taking in the sweetness of her I was laughing it showed how effective the movie was. She was just as bad as Grandma. Great reaction to one of my favorites
I absolutely adore Hereditary. The whole car accident sequence from party to burial is possibly my favourite filmmaking sequence in any movie. It’s the only time I’ve ever had a physical reaction to any movie in the cinema. In particular the portrayal of being in shock made me go cold and cry when she was in complete broken mourning. The ending didn’t do it for me the first time, but I’ve since warmed to it, but overall it’s a masterpiece
The shot of the Dad just breaking down crying always gets me, especially 'cause the Dad/husband are meant to always be strong and brave and keep it all together, and to see them break like that is heartbreaking!
You guys understood the movie. I saw a lot of reactions where people didn't know what was going on, didn't understand the story, distracted by the dread and horror of this movie. You guys are really observant! Good job! Can't wait to see your reaction to the last episode of midnight mass.
They're both highly educated people, particularly in fields of expertise that require a keen sense of observation and diligence. So I'm not the least bit surprised.
The only thing they missed was the first scene of Annie spidering in the corner above Peter's bed. It's only a physical observation so not a big deal but I was a little bummed haha
@@TheDerpp Same, they did great through the whole film but I was a little gutted we didn't see them react to that scene. 1) hovering in the bedroom and then 2) scuttling across the wall behind him to get downstairs. That scuttling moment, the first time I watched this film, made something very unpleasant and fearful happen to my spine haha, did NOT like that bit! :D
When I saw the link, I immediately thought, "Oh yay! They're watching Hereditary!" followed by "Oh no!! They're watching Hereditary..." just because I knew what you guys were in for. So many great moments in this reaction, perfectly summed up in your line right after seeing Grandma in the shadows and turning the light back on. LOL
To add to what you've already said, the grandmother probably tried to put Paimon in the other males of her family. The grandfather died of starvation which seems to indicate that the possession either didn't worked or that he let himself die to prevent it from happening. Also, during the first meeting, Annie explains that her brother had schizophrenia and that he was accusing their mother of trying to put people inside his head. For the words scribbled all around the house, according to the director they're words generally associated with the occult. Some are made up and some have a pretty interesting story. Like "Ars Goetia" is the tittle of a really famous grimoire from the XVII century describing 72 demons and explaining how to summon them. And yes, Paimon is one of those 72 demons. And "satony" is a word generally associated with necromancy.
When people question or criticize Peter’s behavior after “the incident” I just always feel like I have no metric for how I would expect him to act in that situation.
Remember also that Annie said that her brother was saying that "our mother was trying to put people in me" at the grief counselling scene. So the grandma has been trying this for generations.
What if the sleepwalking was Annie’s subconscious way of fighting her mother and the ritual? She tried to set Peter and Charlie on fire once before, but snapped out of it, right? And then in the dream we see where she admits she wanted to abort Peter but her mom wouldn’t allow it - and so she tried to force a miscarriage - she screams at him, “I wasn’t trying to kill you! I was trying to protect you!” Somewhere in Annie’s subconscious, she must have known her children were in danger, and just as her brother had to kill himself to escape Ellen’s clutches when he was a teenager, Annie must have known deep down that as long as the kids were alive they were existentially threatened. hereditary is truly one of the best psychological horror movies I've seen at least in the last 10 years. fantastic performances from all of the cast especially the amazing toni collette which she was truly robbed of her Oscar.
I can't wait for them to watch Ari Aster's next film, Midsommar. Florence Pugh is so good in it. Another excellent atmospheric horror film to watch would be The Witch, directed by Robert Eggers and staring Anya Taylor-Joy
@@rikumajumder1558 - I enjoyed Midsommar, but I ignored or didn't get exposed to all the hype about it. I think that's the important thing, if there's a movie or TV show you are interested you have to block out all the noise and advertising malarkey to enjoy it. Even amongst my friends, I tell them STFU about movies and shows I want to watch to avoid the "overrated" burnout. It's not that the movie is bad, it's that you're sick of hearing about it from other people that makes it less appealing to watch. Just my 2 cents
The VVitch and MIdsommar are amazing. I'm on a quest to see all of A24 Produced movies, I know VVitch wasn't, but still, they make disturbing thoughtful movies.
I love the production design. Every set is laid out like a dollhouse or a stage production. The actors are often blocked and positioned like they're on a stage. I think the point was to sort of make the audience feel like everything is "staged." Like it's all part of a plan by unseen powers, in this case the demon and its cult. but the result is also a super uncomfortable/uncanny aesthetic in every scene. Even just the furniture and scene dressing is very "wrong" feeling. Like in the group counseling scene, the tables in the back are all evenly spaced, or at the funeral in the very beginning the grandma's photo is weirdly framed and proportioned for a full-body angled portrait. and this is the director's first major budget film!
This is the first movie I've seen in about 20 years that scared the living shit out of me. Right from the scene where Annie sees her mom in the room. I had to get up and turn on the light while watching this. Toni Collette should have been nominated for an Oscar for this movie. She carries this entire movie. I'm glad you guys watched it because it is a modern classic thriller/horror movie. I hope you guys watch "The Witch" and "Midsommar" as well. Great video and reaction.
I've watched so many other reactions to this film but "Hands up and hands down" you two - TBR Schmitt - had me in with you... with your reactions... in the moment! And Samantha's screams!!! loved this reaction! #1
Absolut Masterpiece. One of the most unique Movies of the last years and the Direction of Ari Aster is mindblowing. On of the few Horror-Movies since a long Time, that really have effected me.
Nice catch by Samantha about the bottle falling without being touched. Most people don’t see it on the first watch I know I didn’t. Such an important detail. This movie is remarkable for a rewatch. So many things click.
There have been a lot of mental illnesses in my family history. Some very severe. This movie shows my fears perfectly. My fears of going into a world I cannot trust. The fact that I often can't trust my own eyes and emotions. If you take all the occult and see it as a mental breakdown into insanity, this movie is beyond terrifying. Great reaction ❤❤
I genuinely like your guys reaction. You don't feel the need to talk endlessly and I feel you two actually pay attention to the movies you're watching.
When you were doing your outro "If you'd like to see our full length reaction to this..." I half expected Samantha to cut in with "Why?! What's wrong with you??" 😆
Wow, this is the most perceptive reaction vid of this movie I've seen (watched way too many). You folks were getting it pretty clearly all the way through. Noticing lots of the little things and making correct assumptions and jumps of logic. Good one.
Whenever i need good entertainment and a laugh, i look for hereditary. And the 3 best reactions are ... Kat Watches horror, Just Trust Ash, and u guys! When the mom first closes the boxes after reading the note, and then when the bird hits the window, 2 excellent jumps from y'all!
I am SO ready for this. Hereditary is such a fantastic and disturbing horror film. I have only seen it a couple times because it's made so damn well I need a long break in between. Toni Collette was totally robbed for not getting (and winning) and OSCAR nomination.
Yes. Her not getting nominated, I see like an actual crime. I´m kind of sad, that they talked over the "Because nobody admits anything they´ve done!!" line (16:38), because that was the moment I was like "HOOOOOLY shit!" I know, I often advocate for German dubs, but that line was hands down 100 times better in the original.....
lol. This is one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. I don't understand the hype behind it. It's an over acted, typical, predictable haunted house movie, nothing new here. I also don't like Midsommer.. long, boring and entirely predictable the whole way through. I actually fell asleep watching both movies. Both movies made the foreshadowing way to obvious and reveal the entire story within the first 15 mins. I mean the fact that there's a weird woman who wants to do a seance.. in a "horror" movie... wow how completely original.
This movie is soooooo fucking scary. And it's so impressive on every level, the cinematography, the music and sound, the direction, everything. But you've got to check out Ari Aster's second movie, Midsommar, that movie is absolutely EVIL and disturbing.
The Wizard of Oz scared me as a child. The Exorcist freaked me out in Junior High. I have seen hundreds of scary movies since, and Hereditary was the first to completely unnerve me.
Finally, a proper reaction to Hereditary. Look, I'm a horror enthusiast, since I saw The Thing at the drive in at age 8, and this movie redefined the genre. Most reactors don't catch the true horror and all of the intricacies this show has to offer. If you watch it again, you'll catch new easter eggs from the opening scene. Watch his other feature, Midsommar... Good work .
@@the-NightStar which ones? I've seen quiet a few and this one is the best reaction. Both of them are very observant and had great commentary at the end, so I appreciate that.
“Sounds like medical equipment.” “Oh no, f*ck this movie!” The laughter that I let out at 4am just now! As someone that has asthma and had an asthma attack, my toes curled when she had her allergic reaction in the back of the car, struggling to breathe, not knowing how long the suffering will take. Just to hit a pole, because she needed air. This movie is so specific, which makes it the top horror film in the last decade, if not in general.
First seconds in; He loves Her. Wow. And She loves Him right back. What a great couple. I'm subscribing just based on the genuwine love chemistry between the two.
I actually went on to watch The Exorcist as I hadn’t seen it before but had heard it was an influence on Hereditary, also a brilliant horror movie much like The Shining which I had seen beforehand!
This is the best reaction! I felt everything you two felt when I saw it in the theater. I was so tense that the muscles in my neck and back were in knots LOL!!!
The scene where Peter wakes up in his room and his mom is on the wall is probably one of the scariest shots I've ever seen in a movie. At first it takes a few seconds to realize what you're seeing and it's pretty brief but it's so unsettling...
Being a hardcore horror film enthusiast, from the silent to current films, I absolutely loved HEREDITARY for the simple fact that, after years of desensitization, it genuinely frightened me. For weeks afterward. Very few films in the genre can claim that. HEREDITARY is stands with THE EXORCIST and THE SHINING as horror films that scare the living shit out of you.
When I first watched this film, it was alone.. at night.. lights in the house turned out.. At the bedroom/wall climb scene, I paused the movie, declared "NOPE!" to my empty house, and took a 20-minute break. 🙂
Bless ye both! The 'cluck' noise in the car... you both almost levitated with shock! Your reaction was funny because you're able to laugh it out with each other but this film is beyond weird!
LOVE this movie SO much! It's so well-made, visuals, sound, acting, and how the disparate story elements snap into focus once you know what's diegetically going on. It just does it all so well. I saw it at an early midnight screening, and I loved it - until I tried to sleep and the images just wouldn't leave my brain. What's maybe the most infuriatingly brilliant thing about it is how the literal/diegetic and the thematic are in complete lockstep with each other pretty much the ENTIRE time. The "demon possession as metaphor for mental illness" works on both levels almost the whole way through, and it's vital in keeping you off balance (as it is in keeping the characters off balance until it's too late). On the surface, it's an extremely tragic family drama (with a weird supernatural X-factor popping up), but under the surface the entire time it's a cult horror movie, from the perspective of lambs to the slaughter. One could even argue that the wide shots inside the house, the sloooooow panning camera moves, are Paimon, observing, like they're just puppets in a...dollhouse, or something. Which the opening shot tells you explicitly, but you don't know that yet. I'm not kidding, upon rewatch you notice just how many red flags went juuuust under the radar, and the camera itself takes on an almost predatory quality. So, couple things :) -Did you notice THAT SHOT!??!?!?!?!? The one at 29:11. Once you see it, you won't sleep again. They hold on that for soooo loooooong, and it was SUCH a thrill to see horrified realization ripple its way through the theater. -The smiling man at the end was the smiling man at the funeral, if you hadn't put those together yet. The woman waving at Charlie in the pigeon scene is in the attic before Peter jumps out the window. -Yes there are definitely cultists around the house many times - you caught the breath outside Peter's window, but when the family comes back from grandma's funeral there's a long shot before they open the door, where there are VERY faint footsteps of someone running upstairs. Soon after, Annie finds grandma's room unlocked with the triangle on the floor. And in the hard cut to the final night, there are many people standing outside. There's even someone very briefly in the home-seance scene - when Peter yells 'mom, stop!' or something, behind him in the kitchen door there's a person that wasn't there before. I only caught that one on like the 10th watch. Chills, still. -The seance flyer was pushed into the mailbox on top of other mail that was already there. So it wasn't the mailman who put it there. -Nice job catching the paint falling over by itself! They stack the frame juuuust right so you don't question it - but she doesn't touch it at all. It also falls over on Joan's number, so it sure feels like a coordinated effort. -As a matter of fact, if anyone's interested, knowing that Paimon is represented as a pale blue/turquoise light, do a rewatch and make note of everything that's that color. There are a LOT of highly specific things. I even just in this reaction caught the briefest pale blue light on Annie's face in her seance with Joan. UGGHHHH THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOOOOOOD. Great reaction guys! Cheers! x
They did NOT see that shot at 29:11. If you notice, they were talking and not paying attention, distracted by a truck or something outside. Disappointing.
I love the scene where she sees her mother's shadow in the room before she turns on the light. You would never believe the tricks your mind plays on you untill you experience the death of a close loved one. You want them back so bad that your mind tricks you into thinking they are still there, even if it's a ghost. I've spent many nights in the dark talking to loved ones....
This movie is the first movie I’ve ever watched that truly kept me from sleeping. The slow build up of Dread in this movie was scarier than anything I’ve watched before.
Oh man, tell me about it!! My room was pitch black afterwards and I felt Toni Collette was somewhere in the corners of the room after seeing that bit where she was hovering above Peter haha.
Just finished watching this video and realized that Peter's hand (when he's at the school before smashing his head on the desk), is in a similar position to Paimon's staff.
Once I could get over the absolute horror of this film upon first watch, I couldn't stop complimenting on the brilliant editing, colour palette and miniature-esque look of the shots. It's just so well done, this movie's just amazing and awful x)
Just came across your channel about a week or so ago. I never watch these kind of movies, not into gore or horror. But, for some reason, I have been intrigued by this movie and could never get up the courage to watch it. Then I realized "Hey, I could watch this movie through you guys!" That worked. There is no way I could have made it through that movie without watching you two suffer through it. Thanks for doing that and still maintaining your ability to do such a great job of analyzing the movie as you pushed through. You are a great team. I have been binge watching a bunch of your reviews. Keep up the great work!
This was an amazing reaction guys. I generally don't like these kind of horror movies but this is easily one of the greatest of the last 25 years. Toni Collette is phenomenal.
Ok... Ellen and Joan were friends and members of a cult that worshipped King Paimon. The reason why Charlie was acting weird was because that was never Charlie to begin with. Charlie was possessed by Paimon from birth. It was originally supposed to possess Peter but Annie put a stop to that due to her and her mother having a strained relationship at that point. But once Charlie was born, I guess they reconciled or Ellen somehow was able to worm her way into it and was allowed to see her granddaughter. What Annie didn't know was that her mother allowed her daughter to be possessed until Peter was ready. That is why Charlie was talking and acting the way that she was. While inhabiting Charlie's body, Paimon was shown to be confused and disconnected from reality. Though he has a cult of devout, lifelong followers, he himself is not shown to seek a life on Earth. In actuality, he is perpetually out-of-place and scared from what he is witnessing through Charlie's eyes. According to Alex Wolff, who portrays Peter, Paimon's mortal ineptitude is interpreted as mental illness by the world. Ellen and her followers desired to have a male host within her own bloodline for Paimon to take since males are a favorite of his. She originally desired her son, Annie's brother to be possessed but this causes him to have detrimental psychological damage and misdiagnosed as schizophrenia. Which soon led to him killing himself instead.
Apologies if someone has already said this, but you both missed the part that still haunts me to this day. I saw this in the theater and remember when I noticed a shape up in the left corner above Peter after he wakes up from his terrible day at school with his broken nose. The part right before the camera changes and you see Annie floating/crawling behind him, she is up in the corner of the ceiling 😱😱😱 I remember distinctly saying “oh my god oh my god oh my god” to my friend sitting next to me. “Are you seeing this?!” And just then, the whole theater began squirming and whisper screaming collectively. What an experience! I will never forget it. If you feel like you can handle it, I highly recommend going back and watching the scene with the brightness turned up a bit. Great reaction from you two, I’m super impressed with everything you picked up on. There are so many layers and clues. I still can’t bring myself to watch the whole movie again but I love watching reactions to it!
"Is paint thinner flammable?" - RUclips cuts to advert for perfume with shit on fire. 😆 Recommend the witch if you haven't checked that out. Not a jump scare kind of film. But it's got a hell of a vibe.
A movie that I was not expecting to like but WOW, what a movie! Toni Collette giving such a haunting performance, no one else could play this role! I also liked Alex Wolfe even though I saw a lot people make fun of his acting but I thought he was so genuine and realistic with his role in here.
This is a great horror movie. Manages to be disturbing without needing many jump scares. I saw that Rosemary's Baby was on your poll as well and I recommend that as well. I'm sure you'd see some similarities between Rosemary's Baby and Hereditary.
Great reactions! Thanks for sticking with it even after things got insane. :) Few horror movies do such a good job of mixing standard "creepy" stuff with the deeper horror of "your life has gone horribly wrong, and there's no way to ever fix it."
This movie is terrifying and awesome! Toni Collette does a amazing performance. Hope ypu will watch Midsommar too! As a swede it's really fun to watch people from other countries react to it
If i was in charge of the Oscars, i would have given them to Ari Aster for Directing, the Screenplay, sound design, to Toni Colette as best actress and the producers for best movie of 2018. The best horror movie in years easily, next please do Ari Asters second movie MIDSOMMAR , BUT make sure its the long directors cut version!
I’ve watched all the reactions to this movie. One of the things I have most come to appreciate is the unbelievable performance by Anne Dowd. It would have been so easy for her character to have been distrusted from the jump, but she somehow makes every reactor trust her almost immediately, even when the viewers have already felt that someone somewhere is cultishly following this family. Somehow she is never suspected; everyone reacts to her like she’s a breath of fresh air
That shocking moment at about 40 minutes - in the cinema I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. That dread and uncomfortableness lasted for like ten minutes. And, Annie’s wailing - just a masterpiece.
You pretty much nailed the plot summary based on what I thought when I saw it. One thing I really like is how the doll house imagery is a metaphor for the family being like toys or playthings being moved around by the cult/demon right from the beginning, all pre-planned. I think my favourite bits in the movie are the click in the car which is so terrifying and out of nowhere, and the scene near the end when the boy wakes up to check out the noise, you missed it but in the top corner of the room in the dark she's just hanging up there. So scary! Well done both for enduring, for me the original Blair Witch project gave me these vibes when it was the first ever big camcorder horror movie, and maybe the Japanese version of The Ring. Another good recent horror is It Follows, I think you'd enjoy that, has some terrifying bits but an amazing concept.
The moment this reaction come up, I was straight away filled with anticipation and dread at the same time LOL!!! I was fairly traumatised from watching the film for the first time, and the imagery stayed with me for quite a while. However I simply had to see how you guys fared, and it did not disappoint! The performances were impeccable, particularly Toni Collette and Alex Wolff, and the other production aspects were just top notch as you've mentioned. That being said, it's not a film I'd happily experience again. I can feel a part of my soul die every time I watch it haha! Also, I read somewhere that the director explained the film as a depiction of a long demonic ritual perceived from the sacrificial lamb's point of view. That made so much sense thinking it that way... I know many others have recommended to follow up with Midsommar. Sadly the latter didn't do much for me and I found it quite disappointing. Maybe Hereditary set the bar too high! :D
This movie will forever be one of my most cherished cinema experiences. What a sense a dread. Hoping future polls have them watch The Witch and Midsommar
I watched this the first (and only) time late at night, in the dark, alone. That was a great idea. I honestly couldn't get to sleep easily for a while after, I would always be looking around my room in the darkness to see if anything was lurking. I consider myself a connoisseur of horror movies and this is one of maybe the only 2 or 3 that have truly gotten under my skin, but that said, I cannot compare this one in particular to anything else and my reaction to to any other reaction. I think what makes it so disturbing and unsettling is that it's foundation is in human tragedy, family drama, mental illness, deep repressed heavy emotions etc. - very human things that are extremely difficult and everything is built on that and makes it that much more impactful because as wild as it is, there's also a very raw relatability to it that gives it a sense of true sadness and devastation. Between that, the sound design, the ever-present sense of something bad, the terrifying "I can never unsee that" level images, the effective jump scares, the visceral isolation and targeting that you watched this family experience...all of the elements worked together to create something profoundly unnerving. It has stuck with me to this day and I was just as stressed watching your reaction as when I watched it. Ari Aster is a brilliant filmmaker and storyteller and I commend him on this insanely well-crafted movie that I will never watch (on my own, in full) ever again lol
I was working at a theater when Ari Astor's "Midsommer" came out. Now I love horror, but this guy? Yikes! So this guy, his daughter and her friend want to go and they ask as I'm ringing up their tickets if I've seen it. I tried, I really tried to warn him. 2-plus hours later, the daughter is visibly shaking, her friend is extremely upset and I ask the dad "Well?" All he could do was shake his head 'no' vigorously.
I loved y’all’s reaction SO much!! Hereditary is my favorite horror film, and I love hearing from others who appreciate it. Ari Aster is the man…. I think he’s the new master of dread! Y’all need to watch Midsommar!🙌❤️
Hey guys! Two recommendations: "Host" on Shudder from 2021....only 1 hour but a perfect, efficient film that has more scores than movies twice as long. Second from Prime: "Savage Land"- A fascinatingZombie movie only it doesn't have any zombies lumbering around eating people.
As disturbing as it gets. Love horror but this really affected me. THAT scene. You could literally feel it. It leap frogged the hobbling scene in Misery on the disturbing level for me. MUST do midsommer next. Ari Aster is a master in the genre.
I remember when the trailer for this came out. It said 'Scariest film since The Exorcist' or something along those lines. I was extremely skeptical going into it, but holy shit did this movie terrify me.
Great video! You both need to screen ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968), THE EXORCIST (1973), THE OMEN (1976) and even THE EXORCIST III (1990). They are all cinematic precursors to this brilliant horror movie.
"Thanks to Patreon followers for voting for this film" lol oh dear. Yeah I'm slowly realising horror might not be my genre of film anymore :) The clicking and the dark figures stayed with me for a while! It is a great film though, well acted, directed and amazing sets and photography. Great reaction though, well done for getting through it :)
As others have said, Midsommar and The Witch are both must-sees. This film is truly haunting and there are so many little clues that you can miss the first time. When they come back from the funeral at the beginning if you listen carefully you can hear someone running around up in the attic, Joan has mini blackboards in the trunk of her car when she "coincidentally" bumps into Annie etc. There are whole videos on youtube pointing out all the blink and you'll miss them hints. Btw you guys are a really cute couple and love your videos!
I saw this opening night and it blew my mind. I love horror. This leaves most of them in the dust. A modern day Shining. Called my friend at 1 am when I got out and told him to see it immediately. I stayed up all night watching review and analysis videos. The plot structure is a wonder and I recommend a second viewing when you can stomach it. Great reaction, pls check out Midsommar, it’s an easier watch and very beautiful.
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So that was something… Going to keep all the lights on for the foreseeable future lol!
Thank you all for the support!
Damn, you guys! Firing out ALL the bangers, huh? Rocky 2, Midnight Mass, now Hereditary! This has been a GREAT weekend!! Keep going!
OMG you guys!!!!! Why did I watch this at night when you guys specifically said NOT to ughhh lol no I’m scared to turn my lights on/off at night now smh lol anyways, as usual, you guys are awesome!!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘💯💯💯
4:50 wtf, we can´t even see her apparition here. Are my tv settings wrong?
9:26 lol Sam, you´re so cute. I just love you guys! With all my heart.
Just wondering, do you think that you can try reacting to "Bullitt" (1968), "Christine" (1983) or "Air Force One" (1997)?
This movie offers what so many so-called horror movies fail to provide: a true sense of oppressive dread.
Yup, it's not "the kids went into the abandoned house" or "people refuse to leave a horrifying situation for dumb reasons", it's just a family trying to live their tragic life and having every aspect of it being manipulated by forces without them even knowing, they just assume the weird things happening to them is some kind of mental illness they have and so they don't talk about it and don't realize that there could potentially be a way to stop this.
If they had known there was some sort of plot against them, they could have taken some action against it (leave the house, go into hiding, etc), but they are unaware until it's too late to do anything (and even then by that point there is so much distrust among them that the dad still was trying to be rational, and still thought it was all mental illness), and that's what's so scary: we are watching them fall so slowly into the trap, and they don't even know it's happening until they are firmly in it and can't get out
@@thesyndrome43 I always got the impression that everything had been planned out and that they had no choice but you are right this movie is 2+ hours of discomfort , unease and dread
@@davidlambert8879 You should check out "Come And See" if you want 2+ hours of discomfort, unease and dread.
this movie is to dread/suspense what Uncut Gems is to anxiety
It was shit. King Paimon doesn't possess people! He's a freaking king of hell not some low rank demon
Toni's screams during her grief over her daughter are the single most chilling part of this entire film. You can tell the character is going through the most immense pain possible.
It was at that moment I honestly debated turning it off. If I were watching it alone I probably would have lol
Ari Aster must understand grief. I felt the same in Midsommar when she is crying about the death of her family on the couch. The pure guttural pain. That feeling in itself is horror.
Exactly!
As someone who lost a child, I don’t understand how she captured the scream. I tried to save her I swear.
@@alexgarcia4613 I'm so sorry
"I don't even want to watch this anymore!"
That could be the tag line for Hereditary 😂😭
Such a horrifying and disturbing movie, and one the best horror movies in the last 25 years
Funny is when I watched it the first time it was so disturbing and horrifying yet as soon as it ended I just wanted to hit play again lol
Equal or better tagline at 4:54
this Is the only movie that I had to call a friend because I drove home alone after, and weirdly enough my family was asleep very early to what they usually do and everything was pitch black, definitely didn't help
Along with "The Black Coats Daughter"
If you know the Mythology of King Paimon before going into this movie this movie becomes funny for how badly it misrepresents King Paimon
there's a theory that the reason Annie tried to kill Peter and Charlie while sleepwalking is because she subconsciously knew what her mom was trying to do, and she was trying to spare them. this movie is so brilliantly written that I've picked up on so many things even after a few reaction videos. thanks so much for suffering through this for us ❤️
that's not a theory that's the literal story lol. she told the son she never wanted to have him because she knew if she did he would become the eventual leader of the cult. it's all really a metaphor about mental issues and the toxic qualities/traits we inherit from our predecessors though...
Yep way better way to die in comparison
@@dawb86 Where does she say she knew he would become a cult leader?
@@gladyslucas198 subconsciously
Annie was influenced by her mother's power, but she did not realize it. Her Mother had complete control over her (and Peter, Charlie, Steve, Annie's brother and father) daughter mentally, and Annie was blind to it.
Toni Collette should totally gotten an Oscar for this role. The son was amazing too.
Also early on in the "Mourners Anonymous" meeting, Annie mentions her Schizo brother wrote in his note accusing his mother of trying to put people inside of him. At first you're like wtf! And later you're like ahh haa!
Agree 100% on Toni Collette!
She's incredible.
She wasn't even nominated... definitely my personal choice for biggest Oscars snub for acting ever.
Yup, the hereditary aspect of mental illness, as the movie title implies, is entirely a misdirection. No one was ever crazy, it's just that when dealing with supernatural things, yourself and people around you will assume you're going crazy or will try to rationalize it, like the dad. The grandmother was really trying to use her own son as a vessel for Paimon, so he wasn't schizo for believing she was trying "to put people in him". The grandfather dying of starvation could easily have been the result of a curse to get rid of him. The grandmother probably didn't have dementia, but was doing incredibly weird stuff involving occultism in preparation for her passing I'm sure she had foreseen. Charlie, who appears on the spectrum, is actually Paimon himself with a child's mind, not quite understanding the world he's in. With this familly "history", Annie thought she may be susceptible to insanity, but never was either. Her sleepwalking could be her subconscious or some "other forces" trying to kill Peter and Charlie to prevent Paimon's coming. So absolutely clever. A 2nd watch really makes some of this more obvious, and how ever present the cult is from beginning to end.
Toni can act the shit out of anything, legend!
It's hard to spot them all on the first viewing as there's so many hidden little things, but here's a small list of what you may have missed that are meaningful and brings much more to the story:
1) Right after the funeral, when they come home, if you turn up the volume, you can hear people walking upstairs.
2) The father was a psycologist and Annie was her patient before(very hard to spot)
3) The doll house effect was purposely there to show you that the characters have absolutly no will and they are being controlled what ever they do.
4) The first time we see Peter in the class, we hear about the story of Heracles and how everyone is inevitable, even one of the student says: "I think it’s more tragic - because if it’s all just inevitable, that means the characters have no hope and that they never had hope, because they’re just like pawns in this horrible, hopeless machine.” Well, that was a nice summary of the plot of the movie.
5) When it's night and Peter wake's up at the end, the mom is in the top left corner of the room watching him
6) If you look at the Picture of Paimon, he's holding 3 heads (grandma, mom, daughter) and he's holding a cane that is an arm pointing. When Peter got possessed in class, his arm went up like the cane.
7) Annie spill up a bottle in one scene, well, if you look again, annie never touched it.
8) When Peter is smoking under the stairs with his friends, he start choking, that's because one of the friends passed him a joint. That joint was made with the same herb they described in the book and was necessary for allowing a possession. That's when he became vulnerable to being possessed. Also, at the end, you can see that the friend who gave him the joint is bowing with the other members in the treehouse.
9) When Charlie is walking outside and see the grandma (it was the grandma's body) around the fire, you can see the footprints on the ground, which means the cult member placed the grandmother over there, it was not a dream or an illusion.
10) When the mail slide throught the door, you can see a pamplet about a seance. They tried to influence Annie, but she didnt go. After that, Joan went straight to her in the parking.
11) The smiling man was the same naked man in the doorway at the end
12) What Joan screams at Peter is the three words that you can see on the walls in the house: Satony, Degony, Eparigon
Everything was planned, every scenes, every dialogs, every camera angles. That movie was one of the best crafted movie of all time. It is a cinematographic masterpiece.
You should see The Wailing if you haven't already. Same kind of intricate and meticulous craftsmanship. Same kind of relentless, oppressing terror. It also has loads of ambiguous little hints and symbolism spread out all over the movie, most of which you'd never catch on the first viewing. If I remember correctly the director worked 10 years or so on the script to get all the details right.
The bang sound at the very end after Peter wakes up and starts to walk around is the piano wire breaking as Annie removes it from the piano to decapitate herself. Not just a random bang jump scare sound. Every part of this movie fits the story; no extra shit. Jigsaw puzzle..
Holy crap, most of those I knew about but the cane and the friend with the joint were mind blowing to me. I don't understand #7 though; what scene was that?
wow !
@Steelburgh it's the scene right before she decides to visit Joanne for the first time. Annie is reaching for a paint, and then the blue further away is suddenly knocked over despite her hand not being anywhere near it. The blue paint just so happens to run onto the note with Joanne's info, coercing Annie into going to see her
When she said “what a sweet lady” and y’all were taking in the sweetness of her I was laughing it showed how effective the movie was. She was just as bad as Grandma. Great reaction to one of my favorites
I thought the same thing. Sweet Samantha. She's way to trusting.
I absolutely adore Hereditary. The whole car accident sequence from party to burial is possibly my favourite filmmaking sequence in any movie. It’s the only time I’ve ever had a physical reaction to any movie in the cinema. In particular the portrayal of being in shock made me go cold and cry when she was in complete broken mourning. The ending didn’t do it for me the first time, but I’ve since warmed to it, but overall it’s a masterpiece
The shot of the Dad just breaking down crying always gets me, especially 'cause the Dad/husband are meant to always be strong and brave and keep it all together, and to see them break like that is heartbreaking!
You guys understood the movie. I saw a lot of reactions where people didn't know what was going on, didn't understand the story, distracted by the dread and horror of this movie. You guys are really observant! Good job! Can't wait to see your reaction to the last episode of midnight mass.
They're both highly educated people, particularly in fields of expertise that require a keen sense of observation and diligence. So I'm not the least bit surprised.
The only thing they missed was the first scene of Annie spidering in the corner above Peter's bed. It's only a physical observation so not a big deal but I was a little bummed haha
@@TheDerpp I know a lot of reaction videos missed that scene and it's a good scare!
@@stepheng.robert7262 it really is! Precisely because it's not easy to notice, so when you do it's denial, shock, then abject horror lmao
@@TheDerpp Same, they did great through the whole film but I was a little gutted we didn't see them react to that scene. 1) hovering in the bedroom and then 2) scuttling across the wall behind him to get downstairs. That scuttling moment, the first time I watched this film, made something very unpleasant and fearful happen to my spine haha, did NOT like that bit! :D
"Nothing is really happening, and i'm losing my mind". This really sums up this amazing movie. Not really horror, but terror. It's a masterclass!
When I saw the link, I immediately thought, "Oh yay! They're watching Hereditary!" followed by "Oh no!! They're watching Hereditary..." just because I knew what you guys were in for. So many great moments in this reaction, perfectly summed up in your line right after seeing Grandma in the shadows and turning the light back on. LOL
To add to what you've already said, the grandmother probably tried to put Paimon in the other males of her family. The grandfather died of starvation which seems to indicate that the possession either didn't worked or that he let himself die to prevent it from happening. Also, during the first meeting, Annie explains that her brother had schizophrenia and that he was accusing their mother of trying to put people inside his head.
For the words scribbled all around the house, according to the director they're words generally associated with the occult. Some are made up and some have a pretty interesting story. Like "Ars Goetia" is the tittle of a really famous grimoire from the XVII century describing 72 demons and explaining how to summon them. And yes, Paimon is one of those 72 demons. And "satony" is a word generally associated with necromancy.
"XVII century" come on man.
@@Robin-hv5tv ?
@@Robin-hv5tv yes, it means 17. Meaning the years from 1600 to 1699
When people question or criticize Peter’s behavior after “the incident” I just always feel like I have no metric for how I would expect him to act in that situation.
Remember also that Annie said that her brother was saying that "our mother was trying to put people in me" at the grief counselling scene. So the grandma has been trying this for generations.
What if the sleepwalking was Annie’s subconscious way of fighting her mother and the ritual? She tried to set Peter and Charlie on fire once before, but snapped out of it, right? And then in the dream we see where she admits she wanted to abort Peter but her mom wouldn’t allow it - and so she tried to force a miscarriage - she screams at him, “I wasn’t trying to kill you! I was trying to protect you!” Somewhere in Annie’s subconscious, she must have known her children were in danger, and just as her brother had to kill himself to escape Ellen’s clutches when he was a teenager, Annie must have known deep down that as long as the kids were alive they were existentially threatened.
hereditary is truly one of the best psychological horror movies I've seen at least in the last 10 years.
fantastic performances from all of the cast especially the amazing toni collette which she was truly robbed of her Oscar.
Couldn't agree more
I can't wait for them to watch Ari Aster's next film, Midsommar. Florence Pugh is so good in it. Another excellent atmospheric horror film to watch would be The Witch, directed by Robert Eggers and staring Anya Taylor-Joy
@Aitch looooove the witch, brilliant film
I saw that movie in a early screening and was the only one in that theater. Lol. The witch is very good.
OMG is Florence Pugh amazing In it
Midsommar is way too overrated.
The Witch is great though.
@@rikumajumder1558 - I enjoyed Midsommar, but I ignored or didn't get exposed to all the hype about it. I think that's the important thing, if there's a movie or TV show you are interested you have to block out all the noise and advertising malarkey to enjoy it. Even amongst my friends, I tell them STFU about movies and shows I want to watch to avoid the "overrated" burnout. It's not that the movie is bad, it's that you're sick of hearing about it from other people that makes it less appealing to watch. Just my 2 cents
Brilliantly crafted but utterly terrifying. I seriously recommend The Witch and Midsommar. They’re unique cinematic experiences.
add the original wicker man too, love it
You ARE going to have “torture yourself” with The Witch and Midsommar!
The VVitch and MIdsommar are amazing. I'm on a quest to see all of A24 Produced movies, I know VVitch wasn't, but still, they make disturbing thoughtful movies.
The Witch is dynamite.
Add The Wailing to the list.
Your girl is the only one I know that realized the paint fall by itself.
I love the production design. Every set is laid out like a dollhouse or a stage production. The actors are often blocked and positioned like they're on a stage. I think the point was to sort of make the audience feel like everything is "staged." Like it's all part of a plan by unseen powers, in this case the demon and its cult. but the result is also a super uncomfortable/uncanny aesthetic in every scene. Even just the furniture and scene dressing is very "wrong" feeling. Like in the group counseling scene, the tables in the back are all evenly spaced, or at the funeral in the very beginning the grandma's photo is weirdly framed and proportioned for a full-body angled portrait. and this is the director's first major budget film!
This is the first movie I've seen in about 20 years that scared the living shit out of me. Right from the scene where Annie sees her mom in the room. I had to get up and turn on the light while watching this. Toni Collette should have been nominated for an Oscar for this movie. She carries this entire movie. I'm glad you guys watched it because it is a modern classic thriller/horror movie. I hope you guys watch "The Witch" and "Midsommar" as well. Great video and reaction.
It’s so unfortunate that Hollywood’s horror genre is so bad. Hereditary gives us a glare of hope.
Toni Collette deserved an Oscar for her performance here.
I've watched so many other reactions to this film but "Hands up and hands down" you two - TBR Schmitt - had me in with you... with your reactions... in the moment! And Samantha's screams!!! loved this reaction! #1
Amazing reaction guys, just that you missed Annie sticking to the ceiling right above Peter in his bedroom 😅
“I don’t want to watch this anymore.” I absolutely understand your state of mind when you said that lol. It is soooo tense. GREAT REVIEW!
Absolut Masterpiece. One of the most unique Movies of the last years and the Direction of Ari Aster is mindblowing. On of the few Horror-Movies since a long Time, that really have effected me.
What other movies do you consider masterpieces?
I love when people totally miss Annie in the roof corner. I didn’t notice until that scene ended in theatres. Total whiplash when you see it
I just noticed her in the corner the first time I watched and I got seriously freaked out!!
It’s a masterclass in filmmaking. I’m always so pleased when horror films get this type of treatment. Everything was well-done all around.
Nice catch by Samantha about the bottle falling without being touched. Most people don’t see it on the first watch I know I didn’t. Such an important detail. This movie is remarkable for a rewatch. So many things click.
There have been a lot of mental illnesses in my family history. Some very severe. This movie shows my fears perfectly. My fears of going into a world I cannot trust. The fact that I often can't trust my own eyes and emotions. If you take all the occult and see it as a mental breakdown into insanity, this movie is beyond terrifying. Great reaction ❤❤
Your reaction to Hereditary is so WORTH THE WAIT!💀
4:55 Yep. Pretty much.😂
It's the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you long after the movie is over.
I genuinely like your guys reaction. You don't feel the need to talk endlessly and I feel you two actually pay attention to the movies you're watching.
When you were doing your outro "If you'd like to see our full length reaction to this..." I half expected Samantha to cut in with "Why?! What's wrong with you??" 😆
Wow, this is the most perceptive reaction vid of this movie I've seen (watched way too many). You folks were getting it pretty clearly all the way through. Noticing lots of the little things and making correct assumptions and jumps of logic. Good one.
Absolutely loved this reaction . Samantha's was priceless .
Whenever i need good entertainment and a laugh, i look for hereditary. And the 3 best reactions are ... Kat Watches horror, Just Trust Ash, and u guys! When the mom first closes the boxes after reading the note, and then when the bird hits the window, 2 excellent jumps from y'all!
I am SO ready for this. Hereditary is such a fantastic and disturbing horror film. I have only seen it a couple times because it's made so damn well I need a long break in between. Toni Collette was totally robbed for not getting (and winning) and OSCAR nomination.
agreed. she definitely should've gotten the nomination. Who was nominated that year?
Yes. Her not getting nominated, I see like an actual crime. I´m kind of sad, that they talked over the "Because nobody admits anything they´ve done!!" line (16:38), because that was the moment I was like "HOOOOOLY shit!" I know, I often advocate for German dubs, but that line was hands down 100 times better in the original.....
Florence Pugh is equally amazing in Midsommar. Ari Aster elicits some amazing performances in his films
🙋♂️F’ing a right, sir.😏It was more intense,unsettling, and SPOOKY watch I ever had in a dark Dolby Surround theater sine the Exorcist.
lol. This is one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. I don't understand the hype behind it. It's an over acted, typical, predictable haunted house movie, nothing new here. I also don't like Midsommer.. long, boring and entirely predictable the whole way through. I actually fell asleep watching both movies. Both movies made the foreshadowing way to obvious and reveal the entire story within the first 15 mins. I mean the fact that there's a weird woman who wants to do a seance.. in a "horror" movie... wow how completely original.
This movie is soooooo fucking scary. And it's so impressive on every level, the cinematography, the music and sound, the direction, everything. But you've got to check out Ari Aster's second movie, Midsommar, that movie is absolutely EVIL and disturbing.
I wish horror movies won awards cuz toni colette and alex wolf deserve some for their performances in this movie
I was looking forward to this reaction and it did not disappoint. Nobody’s ready for THAT scene.
What scene?
@@batmanvsjoker7725 Maybe he's referring to Charlie's death
@@CapitainBeefhartfanO Ok thanks
The Wizard of Oz scared me as a child. The Exorcist freaked me out in Junior High. I have seen hundreds of scary movies since, and Hereditary was the first to completely unnerve me.
Those flying monkeys were the stuff of nightmares as a four year old!!
Finally, a proper reaction to Hereditary. Look, I'm a horror enthusiast, since I saw The Thing at the drive in at age 8, and this movie redefined the genre. Most reactors don't catch the true horror and all of the intricacies this show has to offer. If you watch it again, you'll catch new easter eggs from the opening scene. Watch his other feature, Midsommar... Good work .
@@the-NightStar let me know which ones to watch!
@@the-NightStar which ones? I've seen quiet a few and this one is the best reaction. Both of them are very observant and had great commentary at the end, so I appreciate that.
tell me all the easter eggs please cuz im not watching it again xd
“Sounds like medical equipment.” “Oh no, f*ck this movie!” The laughter that I let out at 4am just now! As someone that has asthma and had an asthma attack, my toes curled when she had her allergic reaction in the back of the car, struggling to breathe, not knowing how long the suffering will take. Just to hit a pole, because she needed air. This movie is so specific, which makes it the top horror film in the last decade, if not in general.
"F*** this movie" is just about the best review for it I've ever heard.
First seconds in; He loves Her. Wow. And She loves Him right back. What a great couple. I'm subscribing just based on the genuwine love chemistry between the two.
I havent felt that disturbed since The Exorcist, what a movie.
my thoughts exactly. 😅
I agree 100% !!
I actually went on to watch The Exorcist as I hadn’t seen it before but had heard it was an influence on Hereditary, also a brilliant horror movie much like The Shining which I had seen beforehand!
This is the best reaction! I felt everything you two felt when I saw it in the theater. I was so tense that the muscles in my neck and back were in knots LOL!!!
It's such a brilliant movie and this reaction proves it again. Scares and shocks are strong and freezes the spine. Long live Paimon 👍🏻
The scene where Peter wakes up in his room and his mom is on the wall is probably one of the scariest shots I've ever seen in a movie. At first it takes a few seconds to realize what you're seeing and it's pretty brief but it's so unsettling...
Being a hardcore horror film enthusiast, from the silent to current films, I absolutely loved HEREDITARY for the simple fact that, after years of desensitization, it genuinely frightened me. For weeks afterward. Very few films in the genre can claim that. HEREDITARY is stands with THE EXORCIST and THE SHINING as horror films that scare the living shit out of you.
When I first watched this film, it was alone.. at night.. lights in the house turned out..
At the bedroom/wall climb scene, I paused the movie, declared "NOPE!" to my empty house, and took a 20-minute break.
🙂
Too bad they completely missed that awesome shot. Distracted by a truck outside. Tsk Tsk
Bless ye both! The 'cluck' noise in the car... you both almost levitated with shock! Your reaction was funny because you're able to laugh it out with each other but this film is beyond weird!
16:41 OH YESSSS!!! Her rant was absolutely legendary, but he won that battle 😂🤷🏾♂️
Toni Collette is absolutely amazing, you felt so sorry for Annie but she also scared the crap out you!!
LOVE this movie SO much! It's so well-made, visuals, sound, acting, and how the disparate story elements snap into focus once you know what's diegetically going on. It just does it all so well. I saw it at an early midnight screening, and I loved it - until I tried to sleep and the images just wouldn't leave my brain.
What's maybe the most infuriatingly brilliant thing about it is how the literal/diegetic and the thematic are in complete lockstep with each other pretty much the ENTIRE time. The "demon possession as metaphor for mental illness" works on both levels almost the whole way through, and it's vital in keeping you off balance (as it is in keeping the characters off balance until it's too late).
On the surface, it's an extremely tragic family drama (with a weird supernatural X-factor popping up), but under the surface the entire time it's a cult horror movie, from the perspective of lambs to the slaughter.
One could even argue that the wide shots inside the house, the sloooooow panning camera moves, are Paimon, observing, like they're just puppets in a...dollhouse, or something. Which the opening shot tells you explicitly, but you don't know that yet. I'm not kidding, upon rewatch you notice just how many red flags went juuuust under the radar, and the camera itself takes on an almost predatory quality.
So, couple things :)
-Did you notice THAT SHOT!??!?!?!?!? The one at 29:11. Once you see it, you won't sleep again.
They hold on that for soooo loooooong, and it was SUCH a thrill to see horrified realization ripple its way through the theater.
-The smiling man at the end was the smiling man at the funeral, if you hadn't put those together yet. The woman waving at Charlie in the pigeon scene is in the attic before Peter jumps out the window.
-Yes there are definitely cultists around the house many times - you caught the breath outside Peter's window, but when the family comes back from grandma's funeral there's a long shot before they open the door, where there are VERY faint footsteps of someone running upstairs. Soon after, Annie finds grandma's room unlocked with the triangle on the floor. And in the hard cut to the final night, there are many people standing outside.
There's even someone very briefly in the home-seance scene - when Peter yells 'mom, stop!' or something, behind him in the kitchen door there's a person that wasn't there before. I only caught that one on like the 10th watch. Chills, still.
-The seance flyer was pushed into the mailbox on top of other mail that was already there. So it wasn't the mailman who put it there.
-Nice job catching the paint falling over by itself! They stack the frame juuuust right so you don't question it - but she doesn't touch it at all. It also falls over on Joan's number, so it sure feels like a coordinated effort.
-As a matter of fact, if anyone's interested, knowing that Paimon is represented as a pale blue/turquoise light, do a rewatch and make note of everything that's that color. There are a LOT of highly specific things. I even just in this reaction caught the briefest pale blue light on Annie's face in her seance with Joan.
UGGHHHH THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOOOOOOD.
Great reaction guys! Cheers! x
They did NOT see that shot at 29:11. If you notice, they were talking and not paying attention, distracted by a truck or something outside. Disappointing.
I love the scene where she sees her mother's shadow in the room before she turns on the light. You would never believe the tricks your mind plays on you untill you experience the death of a close loved one. You want them back so bad that your mind tricks you into thinking they are still there, even if it's a ghost. I've spent many nights in the dark talking to loved ones....
This movie is the first movie I’ve ever watched that truly kept me from sleeping. The slow build up of Dread in this movie was scarier than anything I’ve watched before.
Oh man, tell me about it!!
My room was pitch black afterwards and I felt Toni Collette was somewhere in the corners of the room after seeing that bit where she was hovering above Peter haha.
Just finished watching this video and realized that Peter's hand (when he's at the school before smashing his head on the desk), is in a similar position to Paimon's staff.
Once I could get over the absolute horror of this film upon first watch, I couldn't stop complimenting on the brilliant editing, colour palette and miniature-esque look of the shots. It's just so well done, this movie's just amazing and awful x)
I'm always surprised by how many people just don't notice Annie up in the corner over Peter's bed until she scurries off across the wall.
i didn't notice
@@YoureMrLebowski And I'm surprised by that.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks "and i'm surprised by that" it's that type of subtle humor i appreciate
Love how you started with "we love doing horror movies they're so much fun" to "hated every minute of it" lol I love this movie and agree completely.
Just came across your channel about a week or so ago. I never watch these kind of movies, not into gore or horror. But, for some reason, I have been intrigued by this movie and could never get up the courage to watch it. Then I realized "Hey, I could watch this movie through you guys!" That worked. There is no way I could have made it through that movie without watching you two suffer through it. Thanks for doing that and still maintaining your ability to do such a great job of analyzing the movie as you pushed through. You are a great team. I have been binge watching a bunch of your reviews. Keep up the great work!
This was an amazing reaction guys. I generally don't like these kind of horror movies but this is easily one of the greatest of the last 25 years. Toni Collette is phenomenal.
Ok... Ellen and Joan were friends and members of a cult that worshipped King Paimon. The reason why Charlie was acting weird was because that was never Charlie to begin with. Charlie was possessed by Paimon from birth. It was originally supposed to possess Peter but Annie put a stop to that due to her and her mother having a strained relationship at that point. But once Charlie was born, I guess they reconciled or Ellen somehow was able to worm her way into it and was allowed to see her granddaughter. What Annie didn't know was that her mother allowed her daughter to be possessed until Peter was ready. That is why Charlie was talking and acting the way that she was. While inhabiting Charlie's body, Paimon was shown to be confused and disconnected from reality. Though he has a cult of devout, lifelong followers, he himself is not shown to seek a life on Earth. In actuality, he is perpetually out-of-place and scared from what he is witnessing through Charlie's eyes. According to Alex Wolff, who portrays Peter, Paimon's mortal ineptitude is interpreted as mental illness by the world. Ellen and her followers desired to have a male host within her own bloodline for Paimon to take since males are a favorite of his. She originally desired her son, Annie's brother to be possessed but this causes him to have detrimental psychological damage and misdiagnosed as schizophrenia. Which soon led to him killing himself instead.
Some of the best acting, sound design, and cinematography ever put to a horror film. This movie is special.
Apologies if someone has already said this, but you both missed the part that still haunts me to this day. I saw this in the theater and remember when I noticed a shape up in the left corner above Peter after he wakes up from his terrible day at school with his broken nose. The part right before the camera changes and you see Annie floating/crawling behind him, she is up in the corner of the ceiling 😱😱😱 I remember distinctly saying “oh my god oh my god oh my god” to my friend sitting next to me. “Are you seeing this?!” And just then, the whole theater began squirming and whisper screaming collectively. What an experience! I will never forget it. If you feel like you can handle it, I highly recommend going back and watching the scene with the brightness turned up a bit. Great reaction from you two, I’m super impressed with everything you picked up on. There are so many layers and clues. I still can’t bring myself to watch the whole movie again but I love watching reactions to it!
Masterpiece. A lot of people don't notice first viewing is that the cult is in their house the entire movie if you look and listen closely.
THE ENTIRE MOVIE??? umma need timestamps or sumn
Alex Wolff has came a long way since Naked Brothers Band on Nickelodeon 😭😭 great acting!
The Wicker Man from 1973 should be on your list.
Nice reaction, guys😁
The mom literally put both her son and daughter in this positions and I'm not talking about the miniature models.
"Is paint thinner flammable?" - RUclips cuts to advert for perfume with shit on fire. 😆
Recommend the witch if you haven't checked that out. Not a jump scare kind of film. But it's got a hell of a vibe.
A movie that I was not expecting to like but WOW, what a movie! Toni Collette giving such a haunting performance, no one else could play this role! I also liked Alex Wolfe even though I saw a lot people make fun of his acting but I thought he was so genuine and realistic with his role in here.
This is a great horror movie. Manages to be disturbing without needing many jump scares. I saw that Rosemary's Baby was on your poll as well and I recommend that as well. I'm sure you'd see some similarities between Rosemary's Baby and Hereditary.
Great reactions! Thanks for sticking with it even after things got insane. :) Few horror movies do such a good job of mixing standard "creepy" stuff with the deeper horror of "your life has gone horribly wrong, and there's no way to ever fix it."
This movie is terrifying and awesome! Toni Collette does a amazing performance. Hope ypu will watch Midsommar too! As a swede it's really fun to watch people from other countries react to it
Midsommar was a very odd and unusual movie. The director made sure there was no subtitles when they were speaking Swedish.
@@AneudiD78 that made it more interesting for me at least since I speak Swedish 😄
The visceral reaction around 18:40 had me laughing hysterically, and just as I got over it, the eye roll a minute and a half later had me going again.
If i was in charge of the Oscars, i would have given them to Ari Aster for Directing, the Screenplay, sound design, to Toni Colette as best actress and the producers for best movie of 2018.
The best horror movie in years easily, next please do Ari Asters second movie MIDSOMMAR , BUT make sure its the long directors cut version!
I’ve watched all the reactions to this movie. One of the things I have most come to appreciate is the unbelievable performance by Anne Dowd. It would have been so easy for her character to have been distrusted from the jump, but she somehow makes every reactor trust her almost immediately, even when the viewers have already felt that someone somewhere is cultishly following this family. Somehow she is never suspected; everyone reacts to her like she’s a breath of fresh air
That shocking moment at about 40 minutes - in the cinema I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. That dread and uncomfortableness lasted for like ten minutes. And, Annie’s wailing - just a masterpiece.
"I mean he had to swerve." Never swerve for animals. Never swerve for animals.
You pretty much nailed the plot summary based on what I thought when I saw it. One thing I really like is how the doll house imagery is a metaphor for the family being like toys or playthings being moved around by the cult/demon right from the beginning, all pre-planned. I think my favourite bits in the movie are the click in the car which is so terrifying and out of nowhere, and the scene near the end when the boy wakes up to check out the noise, you missed it but in the top corner of the room in the dark she's just hanging up there. So scary! Well done both for enduring, for me the original Blair Witch project gave me these vibes when it was the first ever big camcorder horror movie, and maybe the Japanese version of The Ring. Another good recent horror is It Follows, I think you'd enjoy that, has some terrifying bits but an amazing concept.
The click is the demons name in its true "tongue". Paimon's name is actually that noise.
Our current vessel greatly enjoyed viewing your watching of our story. We enjoyed your souls opening to us. Hail Paimon.
The moment this reaction come up, I was straight away filled with anticipation and dread at the same time LOL!!! I was fairly traumatised from watching the film for the first time, and the imagery stayed with me for quite a while. However I simply had to see how you guys fared, and it did not disappoint! The performances were impeccable, particularly Toni Collette and Alex Wolff, and the other production aspects were just top notch as you've mentioned. That being said, it's not a film I'd happily experience again. I can feel a part of my soul die every time I watch it haha!
Also, I read somewhere that the director explained the film as a depiction of a long demonic ritual perceived from the sacrificial lamb's point of view. That made so much sense thinking it that way...
I know many others have recommended to follow up with Midsommar. Sadly the latter didn't do much for me and I found it quite disappointing. Maybe Hereditary set the bar too high! :D
This movie will forever be one of my most cherished cinema experiences. What a sense a dread. Hoping future polls have them watch The Witch and Midsommar
I watched this the first (and only) time late at night, in the dark, alone. That was a great idea. I honestly couldn't get to sleep easily for a while after, I would always be looking around my room in the darkness to see if anything was lurking. I consider myself a connoisseur of horror movies and this is one of maybe the only 2 or 3 that have truly gotten under my skin, but that said, I cannot compare this one in particular to anything else and my reaction to to any other reaction. I think what makes it so disturbing and unsettling is that it's foundation is in human tragedy, family drama, mental illness, deep repressed heavy emotions etc. - very human things that are extremely difficult and everything is built on that and makes it that much more impactful because as wild as it is, there's also a very raw relatability to it that gives it a sense of true sadness and devastation. Between that, the sound design, the ever-present sense of something bad, the terrifying "I can never unsee that" level images, the effective jump scares, the visceral isolation and targeting that you watched this family experience...all of the elements worked together to create something profoundly unnerving. It has stuck with me to this day and I was just as stressed watching your reaction as when I watched it. Ari Aster is a brilliant filmmaker and storyteller and I commend him on this insanely well-crafted movie that I will never watch (on my own, in full) ever again lol
I did the same, but that's how I like watching horror films. It was great!!
I was working at a theater when Ari Astor's "Midsommer" came out. Now I love horror, but this guy? Yikes! So this guy, his daughter and her friend want to go and they ask as I'm ringing up their tickets if I've seen it. I tried, I really tried to warn him. 2-plus hours later, the daughter is visibly shaking, her friend is extremely upset and I ask the dad "Well?"
All he could do was shake his head 'no' vigorously.
You tried to warn him!😄
Yeah not a movie you want to watch with your daughter LMAOOOO
@@NoThoughtAllFeels like i said, I really tried to talk them out of it but everything I said just made them more excited. Lesson learned I guess.
I loved y’all’s reaction SO much!! Hereditary is my favorite horror film, and I love hearing from others who appreciate it. Ari Aster is the man…. I think he’s the new master of dread! Y’all need to watch Midsommar!🙌❤️
Hey guys! Two recommendations: "Host" on Shudder from 2021....only 1 hour but a perfect, efficient film that has more scores than movies twice as long. Second from Prime: "Savage Land"- A fascinatingZombie movie only it doesn't have any zombies lumbering around eating people.
As disturbing as it gets. Love horror but this really affected me. THAT scene. You could literally feel it. It leap frogged the hobbling scene in Misery on the disturbing level for me. MUST do midsommer next. Ari Aster is a master in the genre.
But will they watch anything else from him? Sam said she wouldn't or did not want to see anymore from him.
13:50 “what a sweet lady” oh boy they didn’t know….
Toni Collette should’ve gotten an Oscar nod for this film. Her acting was phenomenal.
I remember when the trailer for this came out. It said 'Scariest film since The Exorcist' or something along those lines. I was extremely skeptical going into it, but holy shit did this movie terrify me.
Great video! You both need to screen ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968), THE EXORCIST (1973), THE OMEN (1976) and even THE EXORCIST III (1990). They are all cinematic precursors to this brilliant horror movie.
This movie totally freaked me out i had nightmares for a few weeks after watching it!! Nice reaction!
"Thanks to Patreon followers for voting for this film" lol oh dear. Yeah I'm slowly realising horror might not be my genre of film anymore :) The clicking and the dark figures stayed with me for a while! It is a great film though, well acted, directed and amazing sets and photography. Great reaction though, well done for getting through it :)
As others have said, Midsommar and The Witch are both must-sees. This film is truly haunting and there are so many little clues that you can miss the first time. When they come back from the funeral at the beginning if you listen carefully you can hear someone running around up in the attic, Joan has mini blackboards in the trunk of her car when she "coincidentally" bumps into Annie etc. There are whole videos on youtube pointing out all the blink and you'll miss them hints.
Btw you guys are a really cute couple and love your videos!
Toni Colette is an absolutely amazing actress.
"was there people outside?" "i didnt see any" HAHAHA. There was definitely like 92 naked people outside standing in the dark! :P
Also, not negating anyone else but, this is the true Best Actress that year. Toni Collette have an incredible performance.
I saw this opening night and it blew my mind. I love horror. This leaves most of them in the dust. A modern day Shining. Called my friend at 1 am when I got out and told him to see it immediately. I stayed up all night watching review and analysis videos. The plot structure is a wonder and I recommend a second viewing when you can stomach it. Great reaction, pls check out Midsommar, it’s an easier watch and very beautiful.