Hereditary | What The Script Teaches Us

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    Timestamp
    0:00 Intro to the script
    1:42 Genre
    2:27 Clichés
    4:02 Suffering
    4:58 1. The Guilt
    5:44 a) Funeral
    6:50 b) Sleep
    8:41 c) Father and son
    9:13 2. Uncertainties
    9:58 a) Brochure
    10:26 b) Joan
    11:35 c) Anger
    12:15 d) Annie and herself
    13:05 e) The dinner
    14:12 3. Anxiety
    14:28 a) Setting
    14:47 b) The cult
    15:12 c) Kiss
    15:31 d) Details
    16:14 The goal
    16:43 The dollhouse
    17:52 Sorry it took so long
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  • @SpikimaMovies
    @SpikimaMovies  3 года назад +2755

    Okay. Here's the big question: Midsommar or Hereditary?

    • @isaacw9029
      @isaacw9029 3 года назад +1590

      No offense to Midsommar but it’s gotta be Hereditary

    • @minteclairs247
      @minteclairs247 3 года назад +816

      Honestly in my opinion they’re both amazing in their own ways. Hereditary has a captivating storyline that has so many shocking moments, while Midsommar’s visuals, even though they’re in broad daylight, are terrifying and disturbing.

    • @santhoshmurugesan7105
      @santhoshmurugesan7105 3 года назад +184

      I will for hereditary

    • @aquaartistcat5835
      @aquaartistcat5835 3 года назад +205

      Hereditary or bust. Sorry midsommar 😔

    • @Sam-ri1vg
      @Sam-ri1vg 3 года назад +326

      Hereditary for sure. The main reason is each character in Hereditary is empathetic, and we all can relate to them. When it comes to Midsommar, Florence Pugh's character was the only one I felt that wasn't misused. Alot of the 'friend' characters were tropey but i love certain aspects of the film

  • @user-cj4tk9so1w
    @user-cj4tk9so1w 3 года назад +6611

    Tony Collette should've won best actress at academy awards!!!

    • @stephenpmurphy591
      @stephenpmurphy591 3 года назад +249

      Hollywood award shows have become a joke. It's not about honoring excellence in artistic achievement.
      Rather they've become a clique of egotistical hacks excluding those not in the hip group.

    • @Marx-Lennon
      @Marx-Lennon 3 года назад +159

      Couldn’t agree more. Horror films in general get snubbed by the academy, but the performances particularly get snubbed.

    • @clairemaybell
      @clairemaybell 3 года назад +16

      Say it louder for the people in the back!!!

    • @monikerprince
      @monikerprince 3 года назад +5

      💯💯💯💯

    • @robysanto2761
      @robysanto2761 3 года назад +4

      Agreed!!!

  • @nicolorebellato3101
    @nicolorebellato3101 3 года назад +8420

    the silence of the father in the dinner scene literally destroyed me. full of despair and yet no words. i really felt it

    • @extratao50
      @extratao50 3 года назад +208

      The acting was so good 😭😭😭

    • @tor924
      @tor924 3 года назад +197

      i felt so bad for the father

    • @adrianolima3965
      @adrianolima3965 3 года назад +130

      The way he look to Annie and then down when she brings up Charlie's death... Hurts so much...

    • @beastofbussycreek
      @beastofbussycreek 3 года назад +85

      Gabriel Byrne is an amazing actor. I didn't appreciate his performance in this film until my second watch

    • @lovesjokes76
      @lovesjokes76 3 года назад +13

      It was my favorite scene from the movie. Can't believe I just heard about this movie

  • @rosamy2017
    @rosamy2017 2 года назад +2427

    There were several shots of the exterior of the house where day turned to night with a single stationary cut. To me that was a light switch being switched on or off, implying that the house was a dollhouse all along, and that none of the characters had any control over their fate. They were just being moved around in someone else’s dollhouse.

    • @ophelia.13
      @ophelia.13 Год назад +67

      this is crazy considering annie's career in the movie omg!!!!

    • @ermsprincess
      @ermsprincess Год назад +62

      omg & the scene in school about heracles & fate 👀 wild

    • @anonymoususer602
      @anonymoususer602 Год назад +9

      Damn.. you might be onto something here

    • @qtmich
      @qtmich Год назад +22

      omg yes i noticed that too!!! i also read somewhere that it’s the cult pulling the strings on them

    • @mooganify
      @mooganify Год назад +4

      i think that was intentional tbh

  • @hawthornnishi1343
    @hawthornnishi1343 3 года назад +3031

    The hardest part of this movie for me was Annie discovering Charlie's body. That wailing and crying is far too real to bear. I don't even have children and I had to pause and walk around for a second to collect myself. That scene, the scene where she get's possessed in the middle of crying, and the dinner scene are just so good, so scary, so anxiety-inducing. Amazing. Props to all the actors in this but Toni Collette takes this movie to the next level.

    • @deerheart87
      @deerheart87 Год назад +23

      And Peter he does well but yes she’s wonderful

    • @Chapterhouse86
      @Chapterhouse86 Год назад +82

      Might be one of the most blatant Oscar snubs of the last 50 years imo. She gave a powerhouse performance and fucking deserved that award. Oh well, we all know.

    • @sticknskin
      @sticknskin Год назад +17

      Yes! The wailing def got under my skin

    • @z-nab27
      @z-nab27 Год назад +28

      I watched that scene and I instantly thought that I finally saw an accurate reaction to a death of a loved one on screen

    • @NothingToPointOut24
      @NothingToPointOut24 Год назад +27

      Its gotta be pretty hard to pull off a scene that well and not show the actual event
      It would've been pretty awful to watch Annie getting in the car and seeing Charlie's body in the back, but even without that the viewer still feels the pain in her reaction.
      And her "I just need to die" while crying in the scene right after, makes my stomach turn everytime.

  • @AsphereLP
    @AsphereLP 3 года назад +7934

    The moment when the girl died was one of the most surreal moments I have witnessed in a movie theater. I remember 2 people straight up leaving the cinema during the scene where the mother discovers the dead body.

    • @janelle9652
      @janelle9652 3 года назад +1156

      Yeah, I watched it in theaters and the audience reactions were very weird lmao. Some people laughed during the car scene. It's interesting how some people react when they're uncomfortable.

    • @WYIN98
      @WYIN98 3 года назад +200

      @@janelle9652 same! It bothered me so so much that people laughed at that scene

    • @0ussama01
      @0ussama01 3 года назад +879

      @@WYIN98 I don't think ppl meant it as mockery, it's just how some ppl react in uncomfortable situation... so don't be mad, it's okay 😁

    • @katierina31
      @katierina31 3 года назад +512

      @@WYIN98 I would definitely laugh but not because I find it funny. Whenever I’m uncomfortable, I use laughter as a coping mechanism.

    • @BarbarianGod
      @BarbarianGod 3 года назад +328

      @@janelle9652 I think the laughter at that scene was a bit of mild hysteria maybe, cause the silence and just shaky breathing, and the numbness of just going to sleep afterwards was both surreal and felt like a realistic reaction to the sheer absurdity of the situation to me

  • @nettieb7604
    @nettieb7604 3 года назад +12863

    Hereditary is the kind of film that makes me feel physically nauseous; not with gore, but with sheer, uncompromising dread. Thanks for helping me put my finger on why :)

    • @wet_camo_crocs_0041
      @wet_camo_crocs_0041 3 года назад +120

      Maybe its because it doesn't try to scare you with quick jump scares? Ya know? The adrenaline from the jump scares doesnt last as long when you draw out that feeling of dread. Its hard to explain 😭

    • @thismesswecall...
      @thismesswecall... 3 года назад +49

      Yup. That dread was very unsettling.

    • @wet_camo_crocs_0041
      @wet_camo_crocs_0041 3 года назад +24

      @@thismesswecall... thats when you know its a good horror film. It sticks with you haha

    • @eveleene3613
      @eveleene3613 3 года назад +66

      I couldn't finish it to be honest. It's the fist movie that has elicited such a physical response, and I don't want to experience that again. I don't know which scene pushes me over the edge, maybe it's everything. From the sounds to the toxic family dynamic that feels all too real. It nauseated me deeply.

    • @galenapbs7279
      @galenapbs7279 3 года назад +7

      i could never watch it again, and after watching it i wanted to cry and i didn't even know why

  • @simonyricools
    @simonyricools 2 года назад +3853

    The scene with Peter's panic attack while they are smoking weed is so heartbreaking. The way he begs "hold my hand" just makes me wanna cry. It's unusual to see boys depicted as vulnerable in that way in American movies.

    • @ceilingfan6969
      @ceilingfan6969 Год назад +206

      I agree, this movie is so genius. I especially love the way Peter is portrayed throughout the movie.

    • @deerheart87
      @deerheart87 Год назад +11

      I agree !

    • @halatiny6537
      @halatiny6537 Год назад +26

      It was great the way it was represented.

    • @fruityblue9784
      @fruityblue9784 Год назад +47

      Yes, and it was so accurate to how I’ve experienced panic attacks in the past. Never seen it so well done!!

    • @kaimonte1320
      @kaimonte1320 Год назад +42

      Exactly...the he's catching his breath tho..and the way he cries...like there's regret and guilt...it feels like real..

  • @victoriapulcifer6218
    @victoriapulcifer6218 2 года назад +287

    I think that Peter's initial reaction to the accident is one of my favorite shots in all of cinema. How the camera sits uncomfortably close to his gaze, and then follows it up, up, up towards the rear view mirror... And quickly flits back down to Peter. It's so simple, and yet... Holy fuck.

    • @ItsCamplicated
      @ItsCamplicated 7 месяцев назад +8

      I was on the edge of my fucking seat watching that in theaters. I was waiting for a jump scare that never came, which made the suspense enormous! I agree, this scene is UP there for me as one of my favorites!

  • @zaineba7319
    @zaineba7319 3 года назад +4449

    The scene when she had a straight face after crying in the burning scene still gives me chill. Intense acting

    • @candy2325
      @candy2325 3 года назад +28

      Omg yes 👏🏾 so twisted!

    • @kaleibigelow7611
      @kaleibigelow7611 3 года назад +131

      It’s so real. Like that shit is so fucking real, especially with intense trauma. Amazing acting and final cut

    • @fionagallagherapologist5968
      @fionagallagherapologist5968 2 года назад +46

      she is so talented

    • @jackie2835
      @jackie2835 2 года назад +144

      If u noticed the beam light actually went into her body after her screams, taking over the body and proceed to stalk and chase his son

    • @katale315maharet3
      @katale315maharet3 2 года назад +9

      @@jackie2835 You are correct. I noticed the light at the school too. It's very quick.

  • @Sam-ri1vg
    @Sam-ri1vg 3 года назад +5120

    As someone who doesn't get scared by horror movies at all and finds the formula very repetitive and not scary at all. I've kinda become numb to them and basically judge my enjoyment of them based on filmmaking + story alone.
    Hereditary fucking terrified me. It utilizes something we all fear deeply and packs all the emotions we build up in these scenarios and punches us in the gut. I have never seen something so expertly crafted and the film is just damn near perfect in my opinion. It's definitely not for everyone, but I just love this movie

    • @LostofConsciousness
      @LostofConsciousness 3 года назад +85

      Likewise. I've been desensitized to horror flicks since Hostel 1, Saw and Sinister 1 and those came out a long time ago. Eversince, I don't really get scared of any film anymore... at all. Only Hereditary was able to give me that feeling of dread in a film again.

    • @clala5793
      @clala5793 3 года назад +50

      Rightttt?????! As someone who doesn't get terrified watching horror films hereditary got me really scared esp the last part aaaaaa afahajajjskak

    • @Arbiter710
      @Arbiter710 3 года назад +34

      It’s a great movie but it’s not really a movie I wanna watch twice the build it up and movie is really only meant to experience once I feel like watching it again and knowing what’s coming defeats this movie cause the whole movie is literally a build up to the end

    • @Dak_Laxterby
      @Dak_Laxterby 3 года назад +104

      @@Arbiter710 I actually recommend watching it a second time, because in many ways the main character changes upon that second viewing. When you give it a first pass, you're watching it from the perspective of Annie and Peter, the dolls in the doll house. But when you give it a second go, because you know the grand master plan that's being set in motion, you really end up watching it from the perspective of King Paimon. Instead of watching these people try to solve this terrifying cosmic mystery, you watch this demon manipulate his pawns into fulfilling their greater purpose. It's not necessarily a different movie, but it's a way more layered one and definitely worth the time and effort.

    • @laneythelame
      @laneythelame 3 года назад +9

      Same! I was totally over the jumpscares and this movie totally blew me away. I just sat in a silence for a few minutes after it was done and for you, you describe it as being terrified but i would say i was "disturbed". Absolutely brilliant film

  • @omkardey1019
    @omkardey1019 Год назад +158

    The best thing about Hereditary is people are rarely interested in the paranormal scenes of this movie. All they talk about are the charachters. The emotions. And the reason why horror is quite an overlooked genre is that it very rarely is emotionally captivating and Hereditary is a very few of the ones which are emotionally captivating. The mental destruction of the watcher at the end of the movie is less about what they saw and more about what they felt. Hence this movie really deserves the appreciation.

    • @Bootmahoy88
      @Bootmahoy88 7 месяцев назад

      I think of Hereditary, the film, in terms of the romance of soul to self and how it fractures, then comes together again, then falls apart again at her feet, only to be reassembled hastily so she can love an image of that soul she thought she knew or to love a persona in the guise of her son that shattered the self
      into a billion pieces, the romance of Travis Bickle, e.g., and his soul reflected by the prostitute, how he's longing for his self to emerge or to say something or respond to something he said, and all he gets is silence. The woman in Hereditary is being rejected more and more by the self of her psyche. She becomes more and more frantic by
      this dissolution. She longs to be loved by the self only to be cursed and rejected by this very self. It's a profound Jungian romance for me. She loses her self in the end, cutting off the head to spite the mind.

  • @reign.of.giselle
    @reign.of.giselle 2 года назад +1255

    toni should've won an Oscar just for her scream alone. the scene where she's wailing for her daughter's death. you can literally feel her grief through the screen.

  • @JaabaaYup
    @JaabaaYup 3 года назад +3375

    The shot when the mother is banging her head at the ceiling appears very frequently in my nightmares since i saw the movie... its very impressive

    • @emilybarclay8831
      @emilybarclay8831 3 года назад +170

      That part fucked me up so hard. Watching this movie in the dark with my flatmates was probably my first mistake, but I genuinely had to look away at that part it’s just too deeply creepy

    • @isyaboi4398
      @isyaboi4398 3 года назад +10

      THANK YOU! It’s so terrifying!

    • @laneythelame
      @laneythelame 3 года назад +84

      For me it's when her lifeless corpse floats up into the ceiling, i partially died inside

    • @oddishnateo
      @oddishnateo 3 года назад +22

      Same! My friends I watched it with thought that part was so funny and I thought it was the scariest things I had ever seen. This movie just messes with you.

    • @Daniel-wz3yv
      @Daniel-wz3yv 3 года назад +73

      That whole scene was seriously terrifying, i'm weak to jump scares but they are nowhere near as terrifying as the whole scene after the mother gets possessed, for me the worst part was when she started using the piano string to... you know.

  • @Marx-Lennon
    @Marx-Lennon 3 года назад +6475

    This is my generations Shining. I left the theater completely bugged out. Like a sense of doom was lingering with me for a few days. Absolute masterpiece

    • @Jadedgems
      @Jadedgems 3 года назад +120

      Better than the Shining imho

    • @stagger9660
      @stagger9660 3 года назад +307

      @@Jadedgems way more scary. If this film was brought back to 1980, it probably would not be allowed in theaters.

    • @bece00
      @bece00 3 года назад +114

      I saw this movie with my mom! The first thing she said was that she hadn't felt that way after a movie since she had seen the shining in theaters! I'm glad someone else feels this way 😌

    • @budoolove5887
      @budoolove5887 3 года назад +47

      Couldn’t agree more. The shining was the first horror film I remember seeing at 8 years old in 1999 and I haven’t felt anything close to what I did then until hereditary lol.

    • @jamie5252
      @jamie5252 3 года назад +13

      @@Jadedgems nothing will ever beat Jacks words to Wendy on the stair case

  • @cadenbdaniels
    @cadenbdaniels 2 года назад +599

    10:27 I wanna point out how mail is usually delivered all at once from a mail carrier. The choice to include the brochure being pushed in alone by itself absolutely adds a sense that manipulation is occurring. Even thought the audience doesn't realize it, this subconsciously messes with us adding to the sense of unease.

    • @Hey_Jamie
      @Hey_Jamie Год назад +11

      He literally says that

    • @amityislandchum
      @amityislandchum Год назад +3

      Lol, what? The audience absolutely DOES realize it. because literally everybody knows that all mail is delivered at once.

    • @snakey8095
      @snakey8095 Год назад +13

      ​@@amityislandchum You talk like everyone on the planet lives in America

    • @kalebanth8323
      @kalebanth8323 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@amityislandchumI didn’t realize it when I first saw the movie.

    • @kai1ey
      @kai1ey 4 месяца назад

      wrong time stamp, legit watched like 15 min passed that time stamp waiting for him to talk about supposed mail .

  • @gavinfinch2393
    @gavinfinch2393 2 года назад +770

    A few thoughts:
    1) by avoiding confrontation and not filling the film with action, it mirrors real life post tragedy. Life keeps moving, albeit very sluggishly. Life doesn’t become a plot in itself.
    2) by not creating tension between Peter and Steve, it really strengthens the film because the “everyone is at odds” angle doesn’t really reflect real relationship dynamics. It also really sets Steve as an excellent foil for Annie

    • @Zarastro54
      @Zarastro54 Год назад +64

      Ironically, the lack of overt tension creates tension in itself, as you can feel how painfully awkward and distant the family becomes.

    • @tomemeornottomeme1864
      @tomemeornottomeme1864 Год назад +29

      @@Zarastro54 You can argue that them fighting is because there's something left to fight for - the awkward silence feels like it's all just too far gone to even address it.

    • @cloverbun2574
      @cloverbun2574 Год назад +2

      Yeah, too few people talk about how Steve was always at his son's side, never his wife's, or Charlie's

    • @victoriadealba5558
      @victoriadealba5558 Год назад +16

      ​@@cloverbun2574that's my favorite side of the story. From Annie's side, we have a clear supernatural horror, but with her husband??? That's a whole ass psychological thriller. From Annie's side we know something is drawing pictures of her son, and that she's going to therapy, and that she didn't know her mother's grave was exhumed, she was asleep when the fire thing with her son happens, but from her husband? Her wife has violent tendencies towards her son by wishing to kill him, she literally destroys her work, she fixates on the death scene of her daughter while also depicting her son headless, she just appears out of nowhere with hundreds of pictures of her son, she leaves mysteriously and now her mothers grave has been exhumed??? She's guilty, of course. There's something wrong with her, and he's so sad because his daughter died and now his other kid is facing trauma and he just doesn't know what's going on and her his wife is so... odd. That's amazing

  • @moccaccino9084
    @moccaccino9084 3 года назад +2286

    Ari Aster's movies are like a very spicy, but delicious food. You want to keep eating it despite the discomfort it causes you.

    • @unslaadkrosis9435
      @unslaadkrosis9435 3 года назад +187

      And the pooping part is the nightmares that come after

    • @m_a_k_e_n_n_a
      @m_a_k_e_n_n_a 3 года назад +81

      @@unslaadkrosis9435 I love this entire metaphor

    • @sameermalik5322
      @sameermalik5322 2 года назад +3

      Eloquently described the taste of experience we get by watching this movie.

    • @kansasgirl73
      @kansasgirl73 Год назад +2

      The movie is definitely a horror masterpiece! 🖤

    • @natalieschopen6158
      @natalieschopen6158 Год назад

      As a huge fan of all things spicy and Ari Aster, this tracks

  • @alexanderjakubowski5673
    @alexanderjakubowski5673 3 года назад +870

    I went into this movie thinking it was going to be your typical haunted house horror movie. Boy was I wrong. Very fucking wrong.

    • @hiraikyoto7064
      @hiraikyoto7064 3 года назад +36

      Hahahahah same we watched it on Christmas, and we thought it was some cliche movie, but no, just no.

    • @randomguy9784
      @randomguy9784 3 года назад +23

      @@hiraikyoto7064 that must be one hell of a Christmas present

    • @hiraikyoto7064
      @hiraikyoto7064 3 года назад

      @@randomguy9784 oooooo I see whatchu did there😏😏😉😉

  • @notsosadbart6343
    @notsosadbart6343 2 года назад +94

    I'm glad they had the cult members be naked instead of having cloaks. Because 1. Cloaks would've felt way too cliche and cheesy 2. The image of the naked old man in the closet haunted me for months after I saw it, it struck such a terrifying chord and was an incredible choice

  • @Soooooooooooonicable
    @Soooooooooooonicable 2 года назад +244

    Ari Aster does a great job at presenting traumatic grief in its rawest, realest form. Both Annie and Peter's reactions to Charlie's death felt like such a punch in the gut. It's so cruel in its realness - almost demented even. I felt similar dread in Midsommar during the scene where we learn that the main character's mentally ill sister killed herself and took both their parents with her. Then we see and hear the main character's wailing grief (much like Annie) as her uncaring boyfriend attempts to console her. Its all just so damn cruel. It's true horror.

    • @ciscornBIG
      @ciscornBIG 2 года назад +4

      She was crying and carrying on for months. For some people that is too long. It's his choice to stay and keep putting up with that or not.

    • @dieandereamanda7599
      @dieandereamanda7599 Год назад +27

      @@ciscornBIG her entire family died. A few months of crying is not going to be enough to heal that wound. Of course, it's still human for her boyfriend to be exhausted by it eventually, BUT his lack of empathy in the film specifically makes sense because their relationship is purposefully painted as weak right from the beginning. The interaction with his friends at the start of the movie clearly implies hat he has been meaning to break up with Dani for some time now.. Them still being a couple with her being severely traumatised and him feeling stuck in the relationship is so unhealthy and part of the absolutist nightmare that the film creates..

    • @Bootmahoy88
      @Bootmahoy88 7 месяцев назад

      I agree. I think of Hereditary, the film, in terms of the romance of soul to self and how it fractures, then comes together again, then falls apart again at her feet, only to be reassembled hastily so she can love an image of that soul she thought she knew or to love a persona in the guise of her son that shattered the self
      into a billion pieces, the romance of Travis Bickle, e.g., and his soul reflected by the prostitute, how he's longing for his self to emerge or to say something or respond to something he said, and all he gets is silence. The woman in Hereditary is being rejected more and more by the self of her psyche. She becomes more and more frantic by
      this dissolution. She longs to be loved by the self only to be cursed and rejected by this very self. It's a profound Jungian romance for me. She loses her self in the end, cutting off the head to spite the mind.

  • @ckotcher1
    @ckotcher1 3 года назад +4246

    This director really knows how to encapsulate grief. Real life grief and real life dread. Not “movie” grief. That’s why this and Midsommer are so damn terrifying. They are REAL
    And his use of brightness and daytime instead of darkness (especially in Midsommer) make it even more terrifying. There’s no where to hide. No dark corners.

    • @salmieesalmon
      @salmieesalmon 3 года назад +83

      this is why i love midsommar more, the way Ari Aster twisted the tropes and made an excellent film that really fucks with your brain

    • @moonbeeps
      @moonbeeps 3 года назад +91

      I think not only grief, just emotions in general. In Midsommar the dependence of her on her boyfriend, he being sick of her, his friends being assholes, it's all very real. It makes you feel what they feel. In Hereditary the same, you can connect with the feelings of all three main characters after the death of the sister. It's just perfect.

    • @HighlyIrreverentanimations
      @HighlyIrreverentanimations 2 года назад +3

      It was so shocking and painful and absolutely accurate in so many ripping ways

    • @Hawk7886
      @Hawk7886 Год назад

      Annie literally hides in dark corners more than once

    • @natalieschopen6158
      @natalieschopen6158 Год назад +1

      This echoes in the nakedness theme as well!

  • @matthewmyers4831
    @matthewmyers4831 3 года назад +813

    Wow, I've watched this movie several times and never noticed the feet scurrying away in the house before they opened the door after coming home from the funeral. Creepy.

    • @lettylunasical4766
      @lettylunasical4766 3 года назад +151

      I watched another video essay (can't remember who, sorry) and they noted that at the start, when the camera zooms into Peter's room, you can hear hooves underneath the music; Paimon is portrayed as riding a camel.

    • @katierina31
      @katierina31 3 года назад +11

      At what time stamp is it?

    • @Groncheroente
      @Groncheroente 3 года назад +20

      @@katierina31 15:34

    • @scartinmorsese7723
      @scartinmorsese7723 3 года назад +50

      There is also a very low pitch, wobbley droning sound that indicates that Paimon is around. It's anxiety inducing in and of itself. I first noticed it when Annie goes to Joan's house to witness Joan contact "Louie." Then I noticed it throughout the whole movie.

    • @Lola-Yo
      @Lola-Yo 2 года назад +23

      @@lettylunasical4766 I’m just watching it again for the sixth time, you can indeed hear hooves clip clopping in the opening scene! Also while Peter is driving Charlie to hospital. I googled Paimon and there’s a drawing of him ridding a camel, his face looks a bit like Peter!

  • @MetaDeviant
    @MetaDeviant 2 года назад +430

    Nearly cried with fear in the theatre during the sequence with the mom following the son throughout the house without him realizing. That is quite literally my worst nightmare, and I DID NOT appreciate it being used against me, thank you very much.

    • @paperlacejane
      @paperlacejane Год назад +64

      The chase scene is horrific. She moves so frighteningly. So fast and sure and predatory.

    • @soakedbearrd
      @soakedbearrd Год назад +62

      That heading banging scene on the attic hatch messed me up.

    • @ghoul5371
      @ghoul5371 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@soakedbearrdbro that was so fucking scary

  • @lomalicious
    @lomalicious 2 года назад +91

    Hands down best horror film. They were unjustifiably snubbed at the Oscar’s. Especially Toni Collette.

  • @Tamisday
    @Tamisday 3 года назад +572

    That tongue click scares me even out of context

    • @lilkitty9344
      @lilkitty9344 2 года назад

      Same

    • @fredmorrison2635
      @fredmorrison2635 2 года назад +3

      What freaks me out is I made that same click when I was a little kid...

    • @loki1456
      @loki1456 2 года назад +5

      I was at my cousin's getting something from the kitchen, when I heard that click. I almost dropped what I was holding until I realized my cousin was just trying to get my attention.

  • @isoldebelisledempsey4706
    @isoldebelisledempsey4706 3 года назад +1047

    For me, the thing that makes this movie so terrifying and so haunting is that it is an unadulterated look into the deep seeded grief that overcomes a family. The raw emotions that you aren't allowed to look away from, the fear Peter feels when losing his mother to her grief, the way the family becomes strangers to each other. It is terrifying because it's so real. This movie is about human emotion, one of the scariest things anyone can experience. We, the audience, experience their trauma in real time and there is no escape from it until the movie is over.

  • @ariannehernandez4365
    @ariannehernandez4365 2 года назад +455

    My grandmother wouldn’t let my mom breastfeed me and always tried to claim me as hers. This movie was incredibly eye opening and it’s taken me a long time to accept the parallels. CREEPY.

  • @FrankieLeeH
    @FrankieLeeH Год назад +394

    I found Annie's grief scene on the bedroom floor incredibly poignant as it was reminiscent of childbirth. The visual concept of the full circle of motherhood when your child leaves this world prematurely,

  • @kisacodmat7886
    @kisacodmat7886 3 года назад +409

    Hereditary is a movie I can only watch once cause nothing will numb me to the pain of watching the son's reaction to his sisters' death and begging his mom for forgiveness in the attic.

  • @lalaem4203
    @lalaem4203 3 года назад +311

    the banging on the ceiling gave me the most chills, knowing that they're on the other side of the door trying to budge in then they show it was actually her head banging on that door so f*cking disturbing

    • @cloverbun2574
      @cloverbun2574 Год назад +14

      Peter begging for his mommy to stop didn't help

    • @ghoul5371
      @ghoul5371 5 месяцев назад

      I literally wanted to claw my eyes out

  • @MjauDuuude
    @MjauDuuude Год назад +94

    I will forever be mad that Toni Collette didn't with all the awards for this performance. As someone who has cried like that, she does such an amazing job it's absolutely horrifying.
    She's without a doubt my favourite actor in the world, she can play anything

  • @Albinojackrussel
    @Albinojackrussel 4 месяца назад +12

    It's nice to see someone bringing up and talking about Steve. He's such a cool and interesting character who's dealing with the absolute hell of losing a child, and watching his wife lose her mind. And all the while he does his absolute best to be there and care for Peter, his step son who is partially responsible for his daughter's death. Such a good guy in such an awful situation.

  • @derezzed5588
    @derezzed5588 3 года назад +1103

    This was the first horror movie that ever genuenly fucked me up.

    • @problematic_canik
      @problematic_canik 3 года назад +30

      It was so good I had to sleep with the lights on. The dark was always creeping on me for a couple days when I initially watched.

    • @5mysoluap978
      @5mysoluap978 2 года назад +3

      So badly that you forgot how to spell.

    • @killthepandas.
      @killthepandas. 2 года назад +2

      If even doom slayer is afraid of this movie we're all doomed.

    • @quattrobajeena135
      @quattrobajeena135 2 года назад +6

      It scared me religious

    • @PotatoPothado
      @PotatoPothado 2 года назад +2

      Congrats!

  • @comradejosephstalinoftheus8698
    @comradejosephstalinoftheus8698 3 года назад +1773

    I showed Hereditary to my family because we were watching scary movies near Halloween. It horrified them, my dad immediately said I shouldn't pick any more scary movies for the rest of the month (I later showed them the Wailing though) and he said it was definitely the scariest film he had ever seen. My sister was less terrified, but she was still freaked out by the film. My mom said later that she looks at the wall behind her when she enters a room now and about a week after watching it, she said it surpassed The Ring as the scariest film she had ever seen. So the moral of the story is....show this movie to your family, its fun!

    • @miming3679
      @miming3679 3 года назад +64

      My mom and dad liked hereditary so I figured I would watch another one by ari aster, midsommar
      That said I didn't speak to them for a day

    • @joelcunningham792
      @joelcunningham792 3 года назад +6

      If your dad said that just know I'm truly proud of you! Hope all is well

    • @comradejosephstalinoftheus8698
      @comradejosephstalinoftheus8698 3 года назад +6

      @Joel Cunningham
      Thanks man, all is well by the way, I just scarred my parents for life.

    • @erasmus9511
      @erasmus9511 3 года назад +5

      my family thinks it’s boring :(

    • @ilikenoodles7448
      @ilikenoodles7448 3 года назад +15

      my family think it was ridiculous and boring. I am still annoyed even to this day, plus they also don’t like midsommar.
      They lack diversity

  • @flippert0
    @flippert0 Год назад +87

    The numbness and (non)development of Peter after the accident felt very real. He's in a kind of ongoing shock he can't get rid off. There's no tears and acting out with him at first, but his guilt creeps upon him psychosomatically later on

  • @swagmeister5323
    @swagmeister5323 Год назад +83

    i absolutely ADORE what ari had to say about cliches. if you're going to completely discard the 'necessary' cliches for a genre, you're almost leaving the genre entirely. breathe new life into a dead horse, don't breathe life into a dead lamb.

  • @lukewren6595
    @lukewren6595 3 года назад +233

    They way she flys out the room in the last 20 mins fucks me up bro

  • @inkdragon3455
    @inkdragon3455 3 года назад +1083

    Can I just say. In this movie, Charlie is stereotyped as being on the autism spectrum. And I feel like the directors did this for a reason. Because a lot of other media takes the stereotypical actions of people on the spectrum and makes them into "oooooh they are all spooky and evil and possessed!" And that's why a lot of people saw Charlie framed as the "main character"/"Main antagonist" But when it switches to the dynamic of the brother and mother being the two main characters. Beautiful. It makes re-watching the movie so much better.
    On watch one, in some scenes, because you are focused on Charlie, the brother falls to the background. But on watch 2, knowing the brother is the main character, it's flipped! Now Charlie almost seems to be in the background more often.
    Super awesome.

    • @tonywords6713
      @tonywords6713 3 года назад +80

      very interesting its also the sibling dynamic of which one is better/superior "the favorite" at the end of the day taken to its logical conclusion..

    • @ewaberchulska
      @ewaberchulska 3 года назад +64

      Exactly o remeber being in shock when I watched it, I was calm when Charlie was dying because I was think they wont kill her off it would ruin the plot ,then boom the most shocking pole scene that will stick w me for the rest of my life ,amazing movie

    • @entity3810
      @entity3810 2 года назад +4

      How is she autistic when she was possessed by the demon though? It wasn’t like her behaviors stemmed from autism her body was being used.

    • @luvvvv124
      @luvvvv124 2 года назад +5

      Yess in the trailers I was so sure it was gonna be about Charlie being possessed

    • @unmorcipan
      @unmorcipan 2 года назад +29

      Well... I don't think people framed Charlie as the main character because she was stereotyped as weird, but because the directors did it, she is literally the main face on almost every cover of the movie, even the trailer shows every other character screaming, dying, or suffering except for Charlie, so people would obviously assume she is the main source of evil in the movie.
      So i feel like the directors intentionally missdirected people into believing the wrong thing, like tricking them through false advertising.

  • @littlebridge515
    @littlebridge515 2 года назад +59

    The portrayal of grief in this movie was so visceral and terrifying that by the time we reached the climactic scenes with the piano wire and the treehouse I was genuinely relieved

  • @Aihara268
    @Aihara268 2 года назад +40

    What's so effective with Hereditary is how it's utilization of the REAL, primal fears we humans have is so well done in the screenplay, for example the sense of denial over having done something severely bad (the scene where his sister gets beheaded), I mean what would YOU do in that matter?
    The familiarity and the "humanness" of it is what makes it scary, together with the nauseating sensation of tension and the forwardness of the supernatural, where as you said, they leave everything naked to present their truth, and that leaves many of the audience to leave in a jittery state.
    Props to the director man.

  • @blorp-
    @blorp- 3 года назад +207

    That *click* sound 2 seconds into this video gave me PTSD flashbacks

    • @Duchessofweirdness
      @Duchessofweirdness 3 года назад +2

      I'm glad I'm not the only one 😭😭😭

    • @hananbr2451
      @hananbr2451 3 года назад +1

      FRICKIN SAME, I was looking for this comment

  • @widowswail888
    @widowswail888 3 года назад +574

    This and Midsommar left a scar in me. not even a bad one, I'd say, but it's a bit ironic how I always want to revisit the anxiety the movies gave me.

    • @kevinc.cucumber3697
      @kevinc.cucumber3697 3 года назад +14

      Midsommar is a joke. Decent enough movie but not in the same level as hereditary. Tried to outdo hereditary but failed.

    • @kevinc.cucumber3697
      @kevinc.cucumber3697 3 года назад +3

      @florian negar yeah no its the other way around. Hereditary had a few fucked up scenes but midsommar was literally trying to be as fucked up as possible. I have no idea how you even switched the two.

    • @CrystalRose1111
      @CrystalRose1111 3 года назад +15

      @@kevinc.cucumber3697 Midsommar was okay, it wasn’t trying to be anything more than what it was. An outsiders perspective on a happy European cult in the woods

    • @timothyxxxpaul
      @timothyxxxpaul 3 года назад +1

      I watched hereditary over 10 times and I see something new Everytime

    • @Baysidemom2
      @Baysidemom2 2 года назад +1

      @Alexander I agree both movies are horrifying in their own way
      sometimes I randomly think about the guy in the bear suit at the end of Midsommar and I just feel sick with dread.... Hereditary has so many unnerving parts but Charlie cutting the crow's head off...I just can't

  • @ShadowWizard123
    @ShadowWizard123 3 года назад +23

    The scene in the classroom when something grabbed Peter by the cheek like a fish and lifted him into the air and smashed him on the desk...ugh that terrified me.

  • @NightDocs
    @NightDocs 3 года назад +37

    Dude I love how thoughtful your editing is. These videos you do are films unto themselves while being a celebration of the films you talk about

  • @illidanstormrage9149
    @illidanstormrage9149 3 года назад +529

    ''Heres the thing: Hereditary... is awesome!''.
    Yep. This one is gonna be good.

  • @rileyhawkins9777
    @rileyhawkins9777 3 года назад +240

    Before Hereditary I’ve always described horror movies as scary, or very scary, or something like that, even Midsommar to me was just a “very scary/disturbing movie”. Hereditary is the first movie I’ve ever seen that has truly terrified me, this movie elicited true terror in me. I have a hard time just rewatching the trailer for this movie. This movie got me so bad that just the opening of this video with the click while Toni Collette is driving made me jump. This movie is terrifying in every sense of the word.

    • @soakedbearrd
      @soakedbearrd Год назад

      Yeah I know I should watch it again, but honestly I don’t know if I can.

  • @SickBoyOC
    @SickBoyOC 3 года назад +94

    The ending of the movie is forever burned into my brain. And yes i did miss the mom clinging to the wall on my first playthrough. Seeing it on my second watch was a jaw dropping and absolutely terrifying image

    • @davidl5786
      @davidl5786 Год назад +4

      Yes , the last 20 minutes are terrifying

    • @MrSeedi76
      @MrSeedi76 Год назад +1

      I noticed my projector being set to a rather dark setting, I can't see her at all when she's up in the corner the 1st time. But I saw it on my TV because it's set to be brighter.

    • @Bootmahoy88
      @Bootmahoy88 7 месяцев назад

      Indeed. I can second that response. The film touches something very primal that just about anyone can relate to on some level, and that can scare the bejesus out of you! I think of the film in terms of the romance of soul to self and how it fractures, then comes together again, then falls apart again at her feet, only to be reassembled hastily so she can love an image of that soul she thought she knew or to love a persona in the guise of her son that shattered the self
      into a billion pieces, the romance of Travis Bickle, e.g., and his soul reflected by the prostitute, how he's longing for his self to emerge or to say something or respond to something he said, and all he gets is silence. The woman in Hereditary is being rejected more and more by the self of her psyche. She becomes more and more frantic by
      this dissolution. She longs to be loved by the self only to be cursed and rejected by this very self. It's a profound Jungian romance for me. She loses her self in the end, cutting off the head to spite the mind.

  • @moimoi8125
    @moimoi8125 2 года назад +12

    The sound design gets me every time . The pulsating and unearthly rumbles low enough to not rlly hear but you feel it. Annie’s nightmare sequence will forever stick with me

    • @davidnussbaum4639
      @davidnussbaum4639 5 месяцев назад

      That sounds and the idea that there's just these cult members in and around my house monitoring our family.

  • @haseka
    @haseka 3 года назад +85

    That scene where she is hidden in plain sight on the ceiling sometimes keeps me up at night

  • @Valorince
    @Valorince 3 года назад +223

    The scene where Peter has a close-up on his face in the car did such a good job at making me feel extremely anxious. This movie is absolutely beautiful.

    • @cloverbun2574
      @cloverbun2574 Год назад +1

      Him not daring to look around, so he looked at Charlie's body in the mirror. Woof!

  • @lava4real925
    @lava4real925 3 года назад +30

    After watching Hereditary i swore i could hear the tongue clicking everywhere i went. One of the reasons i love this movie...the fact that it stuck with me proves how good this movie is.

  • @ivorymantis1026
    @ivorymantis1026 2 года назад +79

    As stupid as this sounds, one of the most prominent memories I have of this movie is when Annie is confronted by Joan she first states, "My daughter was recently killed." Or "my daughter was recently murdered" before correcting herself.
    It's just such an unbelievable tell to me on the mental situation of the home. Annie feels like Peter actively killed Charlie. She is at home with her child killer. That is the mindset from the start, set in stone.
    Also this entire film just feels like some abstract Bosch piece of art. The usage of music cannot be underestimated. Some of the soundtrack uses intentional binaural tones that instinctively set dread. Mix that with moments where there's just no music at all. It sows unsettling atmosphere.

  • @iain2080
    @iain2080 3 года назад +451

    I always thought Gabriel Byrne, a tremendous actor, was massively under used in this film. Thanks to this video I know understand that this was entirely on purpose to create distance and a longing for familial connection in the audience which neither we or the characters get due to the scheme they are already doomed to be the victims of.

    • @RevCo78
      @RevCo78 3 года назад +63

      His performance is so muted and sorrowful. He was absolutely perfect in his role.

    • @incogniftoar3943
      @incogniftoar3943 3 года назад +8

      He is also an executive producer for this movie alongside toni collette

    • @sridevisudhahar309
      @sridevisudhahar309 3 года назад +44

      @@RevCo78 muted is a perfect word to describe the character...almost like we are watching it unfold, but are left to see it through a glass screen that constantly reminds us that we cannot help them

    • @ubarex4761
      @ubarex4761 2 года назад +1

      Nice Pfp .. Is It From the album cover for A Laughing Death In Meatspace by Tropical Fuck Storm ?? 😅

    • @gamelord5798
      @gamelord5798 2 года назад +7

      Disagree Lain, his understated input adds balance to the mix. Think how the movie might have played out if he was different?

  • @samnowland4679
    @samnowland4679 3 года назад +193

    Toni collette is so good that it's like she BECAME Annie. It's, to me, truly mind blowing. Actually, ALL the acting is incredible. Just an absolutely amazing movie all around.

    • @alleycat616
      @alleycat616 2 года назад

      Agreed she should have won an Oscar! The movie too!

  • @cornelio78
    @cornelio78 3 года назад +17

    True. The aura of extreme suffering and sadness pervaded the whole film. It's like every scene is quiet and dead that a single display of spookiness breaks you everytime.

  • @mackenziekarsonovich1073
    @mackenziekarsonovich1073 Год назад +25

    This was the first horror movie that actually kept me up at night in years. It felt so personal in such a visceral way it had me shaken up for a few days after watching it. Such an insanely good movie.

  • @quinnb.8762
    @quinnb.8762 3 года назад +212

    I saw Hereditary in theaters with my brother not long after a death in my family. The terror I felt has since never been matched, even though Midsommar was also horrifying in its own way. I literally had a panic attack at one point, and to this day I’m impressed I managed to get through it. The clicking noise still messes me up when I hear it. All of this is to say that I love Hereditary- a LOT. I’ve been obsessed with horror ever since. Thank you for your insightful analysis, it’s always a pleasure to see others enjoy one of my favorite movies in the same morbid way I do

    • @meg1468
      @meg1468 3 года назад +16

      I read somewhere that horror films don’t generate fear they actually create a space where you can safely release fear....that’s what’s so enjoyable!

  • @kirstengarcia3846
    @kirstengarcia3846 3 года назад +390

    The scariest part for me was when the son finds a one of the cult members naked and hes just standing there smiling at him. Idk to me that was truly horrifying.

    • @RevCo78
      @RevCo78 3 года назад +94

      The smile is so out of place with how fucking sideways everything else is. Somehow the smile is the most disturbing thing about the entire scene.

    • @kirstengarcia3846
      @kirstengarcia3846 3 года назад +39

      @@RevCo78 hell yea. Idk but that whole scene is a huge fear of mine. Waking up in the middle of the night to an empty house not knowing where my family is.

    • @BEATmyguest31
      @BEATmyguest31 3 года назад +6

      Buy a gun problem solved.

    • @kevinc.cucumber3697
      @kevinc.cucumber3697 3 года назад +75

      @@kirstengarcia3846 that scene and the mother in the corner were the scenes that really fucked me up. People say that scary faces and monsters give them nightmares. To me its the “uncanny valley”. It looks human enough but there’s just something wrong about it.

    • @verymuchjustagirl
      @verymuchjustagirl 3 года назад +11

      YES, THAT PART IS SO SCARY, I had to check the entire video first so I know it's not going to pop at me.

  • @XXXXXXXXXX-qy1fv
    @XXXXXXXXXX-qy1fv 3 года назад +24

    They tried to evict Peter's soul in broad daylight lol, the balls on these people.

    • @drigotaata6585
      @drigotaata6585 2 месяца назад +1

      That’s that extra level of uneasiness to the film

  • @PsychoGaming805
    @PsychoGaming805 3 года назад +46

    Wow this video was incredible. Thank you for the amazing content.

  • @rk9515
    @rk9515 3 года назад +107

    I absolutely hate that people only see this movie as that girl who got her head taken off by a pole. It's so much more then that.

    • @eldonflores20
      @eldonflores20 3 года назад +2

      Because they're too dumb to analyze the whole movie.

    • @morko3981
      @morko3981 3 года назад +7

      maybe it's because it's the only frightening scene in the film (or at least in my opinion)

    • @randomxboxguy2078
      @randomxboxguy2078 3 года назад +6

      @@morko3981 It definitely isnt

    • @morko3981
      @morko3981 3 года назад +17

      @@randomxboxguy2078 the whole cult thing was very childish to me. there's nothing even remotely scary in some demon and the cult with supernatural powers, because those things do not really exist. what is scary to me is a little girl being decapitaded, because it's a really unfortunate accident that can actually happen in real life

    • @RevCo78
      @RevCo78 3 года назад +9

      I think it's very hard for a lot of people to really watch a well made horror film. To most people horror film is full of jump scares and gore.

  • @onetrickekkowr
    @onetrickekkowr 3 года назад +1161

    What a smart way of breaking down a movie unlike any other. You treat your audience as intelligent, free thinking adults. Far from one of those "movie explained" channels that talk to me like I'm 12.
    Also, i'm hoping you could do Charlie Kaufman's "I'm thinking of Ending Things". I've seen it 3 times and planning to see it again.. and again until i get tired of its genius. Hope this film would make you feel better.

    • @Not_an_alligator
      @Not_an_alligator 3 года назад +8

      Until you get tired of its... "genus"?

    • @comradejosephstalinoftheus8698
      @comradejosephstalinoftheus8698 3 года назад +7

      @Franz Ludwig It is truly a masterpiece, its my favorite film of 2020 so far.

    • @onetrickekkowr
      @onetrickekkowr 3 года назад +15

      @keeg I could probably write you 3 pages of essay about this movie. I feel like i won't be able to give justice to it in the comment section.
      But to give you a small bit: imagine a movie where every piece of dialogue counts. Every character interaction is meaningful. No wasted time spent in every frame. Every shot was intended and purposeful.
      PS.
      If Hereditary had miniature houses/dioramas. ITOET had movies/paintings. (interms of theme)

    • @flux.aeterna
      @flux.aeterna 3 года назад

      Yes pleeeeaase!

    • @nihilistnyx
      @nihilistnyx 3 года назад +8

      If you’re having a hard time understanding, read the book. I read it first and the movie really disappointed me

  • @aqb88
    @aqb88 Год назад +13

    Toni Collette is an icon, no doubt… but her face acting in this film is astonishing. Her capacity to impart rage, terror, grief, etc. through her face is unparalleled, and is my favorite part of this films.

  • @theslitherysylvie4010
    @theslitherysylvie4010 Год назад +14

    30 years ago, I saw "The Exorcist" and I felt something I'd never felt before when watching a film. "Hereditary" made me feel exactly the same way. It is a masterpiece.

  • @jamie5252
    @jamie5252 3 года назад +23

    Annie swimming through the air in silence will always impress me. Toni Collette is too good.

    • @aleckelly374
      @aleckelly374 3 года назад +1

      Yh cuz actors can do that.

  • @gena9731
    @gena9731 3 года назад +312

    ari aster did his thing with this. i don’t understand how people disliked this movie!

    • @guiantraehkrad1277
      @guiantraehkrad1277 3 года назад +11

      Wait, people disliked this movie???

    • @kevinc.cucumber3697
      @kevinc.cucumber3697 3 года назад +45

      @@guiantraehkrad1277 heavily. This movie didn’t have a good audience rating. Either they thought there were not enough jumpscares or it was too heavy for them.

    • @ssharkbait
      @ssharkbait 3 года назад +35

      @@guiantraehkrad1277 from what I’ve seen horror fans hate it but cinephiles love it. I think people went in expecting a typical horror movie and when they didn’t get that they judged it a lot harsher than they should have

    • @shlunn
      @shlunn 2 года назад +2

      I think the film made
      most people very uncomfortable . I'm not sure. Maybe the movie was too spirituality or emotionally heavy. Very dark. Best movie I have no
      Intentions of seeing. Yours truly,🐔

    • @gena9731
      @gena9731 2 года назад

      @@guiantraehkrad1277 exactly what i said like huh?!

  • @desertfox738
    @desertfox738 3 года назад +55

    I’ve seen so many horror movies, and this was legitimately one of the scariest movies I’ve seen. That shot of the smiling man in the doorway could have been goofy in the wrong director’s hands, but god that shot absolutely terrified me when I first saw it (honestly the whole climax of the film is terrifying).

    • @Bootmahoy88
      @Bootmahoy88 7 месяцев назад

      The film touches something very primal that just about anyone can relate to on some level, and that can scare the bejesus out of you! I think of the film in terms of the romance of soul to self and how it fractures, then comes together again, then falls apart again at her feet, only to be reassembled hastily so she can love an image of that soul she thought she knew or to love a persona in the guise of her son that shattered the self
      into a billion pieces, the romance of Travis Bickle, e.g., and his soul reflected by the prostitute, how he's longing for his self to emerge or to say something or respond to something he said, and all he gets is silence. The woman in Hereditary is being rejected more and more by the self of her psyche. She becomes more and more frantic by
      this dissolution. She longs to be loved by the self only to be cursed and rejected by this very self. It's a profound Jungian romance for me. She loses her self in the end, cutting off the head to spite the mind.

  • @alessiaa198
    @alessiaa198 3 года назад +9

    All I have to say is that I never felt before the emotions I felt during the scene where the older brother waits for their mother to wake up

  • @jasondelvaux3036
    @jasondelvaux3036 3 года назад +49

    Toni Collette is one of the greatest actors of our time.

  • @efleishermedia
    @efleishermedia 3 года назад +39

    I saw Hereditary and Midsommar both just months after my best bud since I was a little kid took his own life. Was there when his mother had to identify his body.
    At first the scenes of Annie after her own daughter's death made me sick, because of how accurate it was a real grieving mother. I wanted to hate Hereditary, and instead it just fucked me up so bad it took literal weeks to process.
    Then, suddenly, I realized it was absolutely the most transformative piece of art I've ever witnessed save maybe Blood Meridian by McCarthy.
    And Midsommar was no different.
    His movies are Catharsis.
    Like real therapeutic catharsis.

  • @JohnDoe-bx8eg
    @JohnDoe-bx8eg Год назад +7

    This movie is a cinematic masterpiece, i have seen it over a dozen times, i have introduced it to everyone i know, i will forever hold this film up in the highest esteem and regard.

  • @Daniel-wz3yv
    @Daniel-wz3yv 3 года назад +8

    I didn't watch the whole movie but watched the climax out of curiosity and that scene with the piano string broke me, it's the kind of scene that stays in your mind and refuses to leave your memory, ngl as someone who is a scaredy cat i regret watching it haha.

  • @seanmcclure
    @seanmcclure 3 года назад +76

    I am so glad that somebody did this. I have the full script and companion book. A lot of these explain channels got it incredibly wrong. I kind of knew some of it already because I have a friend who was on the production and he explained a little to me.

  • @samirchajia9669
    @samirchajia9669 3 года назад +106

    First, u r so damn good, ur analysis, editing, narration research and how you see the movies, u really deserve more followers
    Secondly, Hereditary is my favorite movie of all time, it got to me so deep that i recommend the movie to everyone i met, that anxiety i felt threw-out the film is something i never experienced in a movie before, and it was so good
    thank you Spikma, and i wish you do more of these videos, and you mentioned so many things i didn't see in my multi watches of the movie
    Thank you

  • @Lola-Yo
    @Lola-Yo 2 года назад +8

    Loving your insight. The music in the final scene is stunning and the use of a doll house view, in the last moments is just like those nativity models you see at Christmas. The use of the doll house effect throughout give me a feeling of something much bigger being in control of their lives.

  • @paoneil14
    @paoneil14 3 года назад +13

    the acting of the mother when the daughter is killed is something that will stick with me forever

  • @Songwr3ck
    @Songwr3ck 3 года назад +300

    This is a movie I didn’t think was going to scare me. I was convinced it was going to be the same hollywood jumpscare bullshit. I have friends tell me this movie sucked. My boyfriend says otherwise, so do i. This movie is so psycologically terrifying. The fear that hit me the most is not the car scene, nor the ending. It was the loss the family had to go through. Tony Colette was amazing in this movie, she made me believe in every feeling she felt, every word she said. This movie was just overall so good it left me speechless. For people that are scared of the jumpscare hollywood movies, most dont like this one. I went into this movie without knowing anything about it and it surprised me. Nothing like I have ever watched before. Good horror.

    • @moonbeeps
      @moonbeeps 3 года назад

      @@johnathanhart2999 It's not so much about the theme, but more about showing real emotions. Just in general, telling a good story and relate it to real life. That's why these movies work so well. Some people don't appreciate that and just want cheap scary movies.

    • @crystalalumina
      @crystalalumina 3 года назад +14

      Trust me when I tell you that when someone is saying "that movie isn't even scary" they're pretty much saying "that movie didn't have a jumpscare that made flip while I was chatting on the phone", seriously they don't even pay attention to what they're watching and still have the face to say anything about it.

    • @CarloisBuriedAlive
      @CarloisBuriedAlive 3 года назад

      I love the horror genre (and all of its sub-genres, popular and not) so I hope that people who anticipate the mainstream Hollywood formula don’t ruin horror movies for others. Hereditary is one of my favorite movies ever, but we have had horror movies like Hereditary in every decade of film, and horror generally gets a bad rap because the jumpscare movies get more mainstream attention but they are far from the only kind of horror movies out there, in modern times and in the long history of horror. I think horror fans need to be on the defense because whenever a great horror movie comes out and gets attention, it’s immediately treated like an anomaly that outclasses everything else, or it’s treated as something that isn’t “quite” horror just because it doesn’t fit the really popular stuff - the term “elevated horror” makes me want to crack my tablet in half.

    • @DB-jp3ii
      @DB-jp3ii 2 года назад

      @@CarloisBuriedAlive horror is horror imo

  • @Falcon.Crunch
    @Falcon.Crunch 3 года назад +36

    I just watched hereditary for the first time last night and this is pretty much exactly the type of video I was hoping to find talking about it. Great stuff!

  • @ProtoTypeFM
    @ProtoTypeFM 11 месяцев назад +5

    Watching all the deleted scenes made me appreciate the final product even more. There really isnt an ounce of fat on it, every scene that's there is in the movie for good reasons, and the same applies for every bit that didnt make it. Just an outstanding production.

  • @leftysmokesit
    @leftysmokesit 2 года назад +5

    Aside from Annie banging on the ceiling wooden door with her head, most chilling moment for me were those 2 seconds when she flew into the treehouse

    • @soakedbearrd
      @soakedbearrd Год назад +2

      The part of her banging her head stuck with me for a long time. Because he was in the attic scared and it was semi quiet, and all of a sudden you hear banging from his pov for like a sec or two and then it cuts to her banging her head in the next shot. So you hear banging and you think she’s doing it with her hand, nope.

  • @cecilclaude9335
    @cecilclaude9335 3 года назад +32

    you know its a good horror movie when you wanna watch again but didnt want to.

  • @addisoncook1544
    @addisoncook1544 3 года назад +84

    As someone who has experienced the struggles and fears that come with grieving, this movie FUCKED me up. The amount of almost primal fear and seemingly unavoidable dread I felt for the characters and their experience was be absolutely unreal. One of the best and well executed horror movies I think I've ever seen...
    It also probably didn't help that the first time I saw this movie I was ABSURDLY high...

  • @aaliyahjanay8390
    @aaliyahjanay8390 3 года назад +12

    The first time I watched Hereditary, it made me reach for my older sister's hand and cover my eyes for the first time in years. I'm 22 years old.

  • @226butters226
    @226butters226 2 года назад +9

    As a self proclaimed movie snob, and horror fan, I was super hyped to see this when it was released. It's a major event when a horror movie scores 95% on rotten tomatoes.. I couldn't believe that it exceeded my expectations.. never happens when there's a lot of hype. It scarred me emotionally more than any movie really has. The way it combines devastating family drama with incredibly dark supernatural horror is unlike anything I've seen. I rewatch it every few months

    • @darkNovaskar
      @darkNovaskar 7 месяцев назад

      Haha, every few months. I usually watch a movie every few weeks or days but this and talk to me is so creepy

  • @agaspversilia
    @agaspversilia 3 года назад +47

    Hereditary is an unsettling film. I watched it the first time without knowing anything about it and... wow! My wife, who was watching it with me, said afterwards that during the film I didn’t say one single word, which is pretty unusual for me 😂
    But, seriously, Hereditary is really a very fine psychological horror made it incredibly good buy the performances of the actors.

  • @TheChefdahmer
    @TheChefdahmer 3 года назад +28

    You know the movie is good when the cast gets fuckin PTSD. Ari aster will be a future legend of horror. New wes craven as you will

    • @TheChefdahmer
      @TheChefdahmer 3 года назад +7

      @Oksana the actor who played Peter

  • @stevenbrooks6563
    @stevenbrooks6563 2 года назад +10

    The fact that Tony Collete wasn't at the VERY least nominated for an Oscar for this role is one of the biggest movie award mistakes in history.

  • @bunnylopez1808
    @bunnylopez1808 3 года назад +7

    Exceptional recap, the juxtaposition of script vs movie was beautifully fluid. Enjoyed this a lot! Now I want to rewatched the film.

  • @deckard3755
    @deckard3755 3 года назад +56

    Holy shit. I've seen the movie about 10 times, and I've never noticed she's above his bed when he wakes up.

    • @janelle9652
      @janelle9652 3 года назад +5

      Really?? I noticed it the first time I watched it.

    • @deckard3755
      @deckard3755 3 года назад +5

      @@janelle9652 Yeah, don't know why I never saw it. Maybe I need to pay more attention haha

    • @jerryrose9472
      @jerryrose9472 2 года назад

      @@deckard3755 That whole scene plays out so smoothly. He wakes up and it's too dark to see her, but the way the shot is framed it insinuates that something might be up there. Then the motion detector above the garage is triggered by what you can assume is one of the cultists outside which illuminates the room just enough for you to vaguely make out her outline in the corner before she impossibly floats away. All the subtle details throughout this film are situated so precisely.

  • @brvndxxxn
    @brvndxxxn 3 года назад +43

    Hereditary is a modern classic! A true horror masterpiece

  • @IKillUDarling
    @IKillUDarling 3 года назад +3

    I never realized how deeply rooted, the sheer terror of this movie, stayed with me, until I got a timer for a socket in my room, it turned on in the night for my humidifier, as intended, and it made a click sound, like the tongue click. I nearly shat myself. Didn't sleep that night. Got rid of the timer.

  • @eisande6237
    @eisande6237 3 года назад +16

    The scene when the mom is grieving for Charlie is the realest reaction I have ever seen in a movie before.

    • @user-dl4zp4qc6p
      @user-dl4zp4qc6p 2 года назад

      Without going into any details, there's another impressively authentic reaction towards the end of Session 9.

    • @doctorposting
      @doctorposting Год назад

      yup

  • @danjkvl
    @danjkvl 3 года назад +41

    I think the part that scares me about this movie and cult type horror in general is just the ... hiding in plain site ... like just to know that so many people were in on it the whole time ... and made shit happen . I always think about that like ... is my family in a cult ?? Are my friends ?? Do I not know something 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ that’s the part that scares me the most

    • @borisivan7145
      @borisivan7145 3 года назад

      Have you watched Rosemary's Baby? 😃

  • @rosemaddison4017
    @rosemaddison4017 3 года назад +44

    I never really thought about it when it came to the doll houses. Now seeing this, the family was being controlled unknowingly the whole time, so unsettling.

  • @jumanaa
    @jumanaa 2 года назад +5

    This is one of the rare horror film that stayed with me for a very long time. It’s the strange eeriness that none other did it for me. Haven’t found any horror film that made me feel this way since this one.

  • @alexanderjones5109
    @alexanderjones5109 3 года назад +3

    this movie is brilliant, thank you for showing us a deeper look behind the curtain with the script. i'm a huge horror fan, horror movies don't really scare me or upset me usually. but hereditary made me sick and i had to pause it to take a break, simply because of the family's reaction to charlie's death. that was the most real and visceral reaction of losing a child i've ever seen in a movie. will never forget it

  • @ape5490
    @ape5490 3 года назад +31

    Hereditary beats Midsommar for me.

  • @Cowgutz
    @Cowgutz 3 года назад +12

    Hereditary triggered the darkest time of my life and I fucking love it for that. The amount of dread, anxiety, and paranoia I got from this movie is NOTHING I’ve ever experienced from a horror movie in my entire movie. It’s a piece of art.

    • @tonywords6713
      @tonywords6713 3 года назад +1

      likewise.. the movie itself feels "cursed" and like it puts a curse on the viewer.

  • @ameris3854
    @ameris3854 3 года назад +4

    It’s hard to describe how in love with this film I am. the acting was fantastic / the ominous sensation is thrilling but so so unnerving. and this video was so informative. thank you!