Review of Hereditary (2018) by Ggolding — 19 Jun 2018

Hereditary comes briskly walking out the doors holding promise that we might get a good look into the different ways that people deal with grieving and a possible look at the effects that paranoid schizophrenia can have on those that suffer from it.

.. and then the writer got drunk and accidentally wrote another script in the same file. See... I would be praising this film if I got what I'd been promised from the first act, but the film quickly devolves into becoming just another dumb horror film that lacks in any form of depth from the second act on.

The only reason I gave this film a 3/10 was because the first act was good and most other aspects of the film were passable. But the more I think about this film, the more I seem to dislike it. Most other bad films in the supernatural horror genre are at least fun to watch, but there were so many moments that I wanted to walk out of Hereditary.

Even if I hadn't gone to see it with somebody else, I still would have refused to leave because I held on to that hope that they might just save the film by bringing it back to what the first act had promised, which is something they never did.

If you want to walk out of this film at any point, do it, the film doesn't get better, it only gets worse. If you want to watch this film, I'd wait until it's on one of the major streaming services because it's not at all worth the money it would cost to go to the theater.