finally got round to seeing Hereditary tonight with a very nervy erstwhile-DiSer @suedehead. he needn’t have been so worried in my opinion - wasn’t particularly scary but I did like a lot of how it was done. had some great old-school gross out violent moments, some good exorcist-style scares, but i really felt like it just lost its way towards the end. also - probably the most unpopular opinion here - i really didn’t like toni collette’s performance, started fine but by the end was almost pantomimey. was fine overall.
here’s some more spoilered bits:
don’t really get why toni collette was suddenly sticking to walls/flying around - also not particularly scary, although i’m sure it got some gasps in the cinema, but that seemed to be the only reason it was there. the bits in the corner of the room were well shot and subtle at least. and in fairness i thought the head banging on the door of the attic was great - just a bit out of nowhere.
head-smash-pole was brilliant. properly burst out laughing. maybe that says more about me than the film.
patti from the leftovers!
guess i just don’t really get the correlation between the daughter wanting to get into her brother’s body/vessel and the mum being possessed (?) as well. maybe someone else can explain.
