the familial trauma chiller HEREDITARY

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

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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.

Just to continue the discussion here instead of the other thread, since I haven't seen the new movie yet, I do agree that Rosemary's Baby is more successful. Which in and of itself is kind of duh, because Rosemary's Baby is a masterpiece ratified by decades of reverence (and reference). But I do agree that Hereditary gets a little undisciplined toward the end. Or perhaps too disciplined? It's such a bigger, more open world than RB, and (or so) it's established pretty early on that something supernatural is up. What it kind of rushes into at the end is the resolution that the family has been set up into a situation, yeah, more obscure than, oh, it's Satanists, a concept/threat everyone kind of gets. But Hereditary introduces all these weird rules and stuff that have to be explained into the movie's conclusion, but by then we've moved so far beyond "this is all in her head" that it gets kind of ... impatient and off, especially for a movie whose running time is pretty much half people turning around slowly and staring in terror at something off screen. Still effective, though!

I just saw this with no knowledge except that it was vaguely horror. Wow, the sucker punch of the decapitation just comes out of no where to such an extent that it kind of took the next third of the movie to recover. Possibly because of this, the middle annoyed me as Collette sort of spastically lurches from scene to scene in repressed horror trying to resolve the situation in dumb ways (sceance, etc.), which I guess I get in light of her grasping to deal with a terrible situation. Really liked the last twenty minutes when things just went full on crazy. So many creepy touches like Collette sawing her own head off to her body floating away to the corpses being posed in worship to the end song.

The grave tension of Collette and Byrne with the book resolving with Byrne suddenly bursting into flames took me by surprise and I started laughing out loud!

Finally watched this, on Amazon Prime, and regardless of a lot of other thoughts and feelings I just can't think of another recent movie that kept me so constantly off-kilter. The use of colors, the instant day-to-night transitions, the instant location changes, it just all combined to keep me feeling uncomfortable and wrong-footed. Were the establishing exteriors actually tilt-shifted miniatures, or were they just shot that way to strengthen the metaphor regarding the miniatures that Annie makes?

I kinda want to watch it again, to see if Joan is visible at the funeral at the beginning.

I did love how in all of the early scenes, up through the dinner scene, the only way Toni Collette and the son could talk to each other was by asking each other questions, without ever actually answering or making a statement.

I wish genre movies didn't get overlooked, she really did deserve an Oscar nod.

Again, genre movies don't get as overlooked as one might assume. Get Out won best screenplay the previous year, and was nominated for a ton of other things. And Toni Collette's single previous Oscar nomination was for The Sixth Sense. So it happens. But as much as the Oscars still denote some kind of symbolic victory, the important thing is that literally everybody recognizes Toni Collette's performance in this movie to be incredible.

Hadn't seen this before. 30 minutes in. Paused until my anxiety attack settles down.

not being able to do this live is what made seeing this in a packed theater such a memorable experience

that was where my wife peaced out entirely iirc xp

Yea it's why as much as i loved it, a rewatch is not forthcoming

this movie was scary as fuck, and I have seen my fair share of horror flicks

I would rewatch just to try and figure some shit out, plus like Midsomar there are some great shots

creepiest parts:

smiling Peter in the glass reflection
mom banging her head against the attic door
first manifestations of the naked people
*cluck*

the high speed decapitation and headless daughter sitting in car in driveway gave me nausea

every now and again, when half asleep going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, i get an image of the naked guy smiling in the corner and i have to banish it as quickly as possible as a dangerous brain worm

yup that was like Shining bear-suit level creepy

I watched this last night and didn't get much from it. I dampened my feelings about Collette's suffering because it was basically too gruelling (the scene in the bedroom after she's discovered the daughter is precisely the scene that most movies leave out and for good reason - it was too much), which mostly meant I found the histrionics overpowering and they took me out of the film. The thunk as she sawed her own head off made me mutter a 'thank christ for that'.

I enjoyed the pacing of the first half, but the rapid speed of the final third made me think of a whole bunch of post-Conjuring films that mistake elevation for tension and maybe even psychedelia (Mandy absolutely doesn't fit this pattern).

What's stayed with me is the commentary on parenthood (much the same as its twin in gruelling misery, The Babadook) and the terror of failure, of passing one's neuroses and suffering on to your own kids. And reading this thread has definitely made me wish I'd seen it at the theatre. Awesome score, obvs.

You gotta wonder

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hmm. over/under $200?

Under!

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