Review #176: Hereditary (2018)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #31: Hereditary (2018) Man. Where to even start with this movie? It's fantastic. It might be the scariest horror movie I've seen in the last ten years, definitely in the top five of all time. But it's not just scary- every facet of this film has clearly had so much work put into it, and it's like every single element that went into making it was the perfect tool for the job. Roles are perfectly cast, visual motifs are the exact right degree of unsettling, certain shots linger for the perfect amount of time to let the gravity of what you've just seen sink in, and so on. I don't know what could be done to make this movie better without simultaneously making it worse. I think Hereditary is an amazing deconstruction of trauma and grief. Not only do we see how the characters all cope with the grief that comes from the loss of a loved one throughout the whole film, but certain s...