Review of Hereditary (2018) by Chills 2 — 10 Jun 2018

The user rating for this film on imdb is currently 8 out of 10 stars while RT audience is at 59%. That is a huge difference. I left a negative review for it there too and it almost immediately received 13 thumbs down votes. All negative reviews are going so fast I think A24 is paying users to like their films.

This movie started very slow and relied more on a creepy uncomfortable atmosphere than an actual story. It also had a lot of clunky foreshadowing but by the time anything came out of any of it I had already stopped caring.

Eventually something interesting happened and I thought it would finally start moving but then this movie pumped its brakes hard and went right back to creeping along at a painfully slow pace. I understand tension building but when very little happens it's really more boredom than tension.

Eventually it started to move and I realized that all of the carefully planted threads placed throughout the movie ended in a giant tangled mess of horror movie endings that have been done before, that don't match and really just feel silly.

Toni Collette is a great actress probably the closest thing to a saving grace of this film, but sadly it's not enough. Save your money. You won't regret skipping this film in a theater.