the familial trauma chiller HEREDITARY

fwiw the person I saw it with liked it more after a second viewing

i feel like i've seen Shapiro in something else recently but Wiki says it's her film debut... not sure where I got that from.

you got it from wiki iirc

hail paimon, folks

fuck i loved this

last 15 mins were a trip

Just saw this, and kinda glad I watched it at home during the day tbh! Intensely unsettling. I should have paid more attention, because I missed a few cues such as the relevance of Annie's ramble at the group therapy, and the mother's funeral (the cult people were apparently all the attendees she "didnt recognise")

Am left with a few questions: did Annie know all along what her mother was? The attic boxes scene indicates not, but then again she fought against her mother re Peter (trying to abort him when pregnant, keeping him from her mother etc). I think I need to watch it again!

she didn't know for sure - she just had a tortured relationship with her mother, as did her brother who committed suicide as a teen who was clearly the first attempt at a vessel. the whole movie builds to this conception that yes, mom IS really evil

I cant decide wether the ending is awesome, or a little too obvious, but I like that one could read it either way (ie the ending could still be metaphorical/hallucinatory). It also touches on all that satanic panic stuff of the 80s.

kinda interesting to watch a movie build and build for 90 minutes then spend the last 30 not sticking the landing at all. operative word there is “kinda”

i *wish* the last 15 minutes were a trip, it all felt so restricted and inevitable and linear

it is weird to feel bored when a main character is sawing their own head off that’s for sure

The near-constant use of crane shots was nice

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otm though

brad did you watch this at home? I think the theater experience was p key for me on this one, esp w/r/t Stetson's score

crane shots were u&k in drawing subtle links between annie’s POV of her dioramas and paimon’s POV of the family, a line which is blurred in the very first shot of the movie

between this movie and Mandy, the combination of horror + score did have some sort of banner year in 2018
virtually everything else sucked, but we had this!

v otm, two of my favourites of this year for sure

hereditary >>>>>> mandy though

what a terrible opinion

anyway yes the score was v good, and i did watch this at home

i really hated mandy, the score was cool though

that's cool it's not for everyone flops

yeah i don’t think you all are bad for liking it or anything; i latch onto characters and dialogue and plot, and it had essentially none of them. also saw it the week after a breakup which prob coloured the xp, whereas i saw hereditary whilst falling in love

as someone who liked both movies v much I think hereditary >> mandy is a defensible opinion

more than anything though I cannot recall a first feature in recent memory from a total unknown that made this much of an impact and I'm v curious to see what he does next

Maybe dont watch his vimeo short as it is even more disturbing than hereditary

Toni collette deserves an oscar nomination btw

She'll get one, I think.

peter's crying in this movie is kind of amazing, I didn't think there was a way to cry in a movie that I haven't heard before and that I would find startling and upsetting, the way it is when you actually encounter a person crying in real life

Alex Wolff's performance/screen presence was so unusual that I was surprised to discover he has a ton of credits already

btw Aster's followup is out in August so we can expect a trailer soon

another vote for hereditary >>>>>> mandy

I thought Mandy had some cheap nudge nudge wink wink elements, but hereditary was unique and inspired.

i would like to clarify that i didn't hate this, it just didn't go far enough for me. i wish it felt open-ended but it feels extremely closed off. this is a fine and ok thing for a movie to be but it frustrated the hell out of me. i will also say that endings adversely affect the way i think of the rest of a film. also in my initial post i did not clarify that i think the first 90 minutes of this are p terrific

mandy is a v unique and powerfully emotional movie for me so it's hard for me to not rise to its defense on every occasion lol

otherwise beyond visuals/score effectiveness i don't see much reason to think of both movies at the same time

there isn't -- i just put it out there because i really super enjoyed both of the movies, both of the scores, and two big symbiotic audiovisual experiences like that don't usually happen in one year, at least not for me. i really liked both of them. hereditary will stay with me more for the movie, mandy more for the score. we don't have to keep talking about mandy itt.

well this was traumatizing

Toni collette deserves an oscar nomination btw

She'll get one, I think.

also lol what universe are you guys living in where horror movies win Oscars

Last year?

I thought Shape of Water was a rom com

I guess they did give one to Jordan Peele so ya got me there

Collette will def be nominated

She was nominated for Sixth Sense, too, iirc her only previous Oscar nomination. I guess she should do horror more often?

Natalie Portman won Best Actress for Black Swan

damn toni went sicko mode

tee hee

shoulda really got an oscar nod here

yeah she's phenomenal in this

http://wtfbabe.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/hereditary-55-gif-blue-light-special-wtf-watch-the-film-saint-pauly1.gif

yea wtf
Early summer release + horror = long way to go for a nom
Still tho

Wow, I managed to go this whole time without getting any spoilers about this movie (nothing beyond someone making a joke sometime back about a decapitation), so went in more or less blind. And boy, did I not expect it to go full batshit! From Rosemary's Baby to The Witch, I love movies where there is no twist and what you think is happening is what's happening. This one, though, for most of it I watched it as a kind of cross between The Sixth Sense and Manchester by the Sea, but then towards the end, when it goes nuts ... hats off, crazy filmmakers.

Toni Collette was great in this. Everyone the boy, maybe, who seemed a little too ... old?

damn Manchester by the Sea comparison is OTM

Well, this was a bit of fun.