A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
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BriAnn Rachele
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Moises L. Tovar
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William 'Bus' Riley
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Storyline
When her mentally ill mother passes away, Annie (Toni Collette), her husband (Gabriel Byrne), son (Alex Wolff), and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural. They each begin to have disturbing, otherworldly experiences linked to the sinister secrets and emotional trauma that have been passed through the generations of their family.
- Taglines
- Every family tree hides a secret.
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- Rated R for horror violence, disturbing images, language, drug use and brief graphic nudity
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- TriviaToni Collette had told her agent that she didn't want to do any more heavy, dark films and only wanted to do comedies, but she loved the "Hereditary" script so much she couldn't turn it down.
- Goofs(at around 1h 8 mins) For portions of Joan's instructions to Annie, as Annie is leaving Joan's apartment, the lips don't match the words, notably the comment that the husband and brother need to be 'in the house.'
- Quotes
Annie: I never wanted to be your mother.
Peter: Why?
Annie: I was scared. I didn't feel like a mother. But she pressured me.
Peter: Then why did you have me?
Annie: It wasn't my fault! I tried to stop it.
Peter: How?
Annie: I tried to have a miscarriage.
Peter: How?
Annie: However I could. I did everything they told me not to do, but it didn't work. I'm happy it didn't work.
Peter: You tried to kill me.
Annie: No, I love you!
Peter: [crying] Why did you try to kill me?
Annie: I didn't! I was trying to save you!
- Crazy creditsThe first minute of the closing credits is a list of vertically-scrolling names, where a random letter of each person's name is hi-lighted in a different color, then drops down to form the words of the next person's name in line.
- Soundtracks12 Fantaisies: No. 6 in D Minor, TWV 40:7: Dolce - Allegro - Spirituoso
Written by Georg Philipp Telemann
Performed by Benedek Csalog
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.
Top review
A tense , intriguing , mysterious and well performed horror thriller
Awesome terror picture in which filmmaker Ari Aster takes a house and a few fine actors conjuring up some thrilling , horrifying and nail-biting scenes . When a mentally ill mother passes away , a familiy goes for their 78-year-old grandmother Ellen Taper Leigh's funeral . Annie (Toni Collette) , her hubby Steve (Gabriel Byrne), son Peter (Alex Wolff), and 13-year-old daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss . The family turn to different means to handle their grief , including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural . They each start having disturbing , strange experiences linked to dark and bizarre events that have been passed through the generations of their family . As the inexperienced teenager Peter becomes systematically cut off from her circle and friends and things go wrong . Every family tree hides a secret. Evil runs in the family.
A terrifying fiction about a grieving family who's haunted by an unfortunate tragedy and then happens a lot of disturbing occurrences, including suspense , intrigue , turns , a lot of twisted incidents , at the same time charged with tension , unflinching depictions of graphic violence and high level staging which the viewer could really enjoy . A great success film about a peculiar family linked to sinister secrets and emotional traumas with plenty of shocks and deliciously twisted happenings , being compellingly directed with well staged set pieces and plenty of startling visual content and imagination enough . Above average horror movie in which the frightening , otherworldly happenings developing themselves little by little , at the beginning alarming hints of an eerie and well-planned witchery conspiracy begin to emerge, enfolding the family in a shroud of suspicion and mental agony until a surprising conclusion . The story is well paced , suffering from some disturbing incidents of varying quality , packing nice as well as scary moments . There are some really creepy scenes with extreme horror , ghastly surprises and outstanding also the pleasantly visual look . This Hereditary (2018) results to be a seamless mix of horror and a few doses of dark humor . Interpretations are uniformly good . Here stands out Toni Collette as the grievance mother who starts unraveling cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry . Along with the fine remaining cast giving top-notch interpretations , such as : Gabriel Byrne , Alex Wolff , Milly Shapiro and Ann Dowd as the suspicious Joan .
Special mention for the extremely unsettling and thrilling musical score by Colin Stetson . Likewise , adequate and imaginative cinematography by Pawel Pogorzelski . This suspenseful motion picture was competently directed by Ari Aster who often uses long uninterrupted camera shots. This graduated from the American Film Institute , Ari Aster , was born 1986 in New York City . He is a prestigious director and writer with penchant fot terror movies , being especially known for Hereditary (2018) , Midsommar (2019) and Disappointment Blvd in post-production. Rating : 7.5/10 . Better than average terror movie . The flick will appeal to supernatural horror fans .
A terrifying fiction about a grieving family who's haunted by an unfortunate tragedy and then happens a lot of disturbing occurrences, including suspense , intrigue , turns , a lot of twisted incidents , at the same time charged with tension , unflinching depictions of graphic violence and high level staging which the viewer could really enjoy . A great success film about a peculiar family linked to sinister secrets and emotional traumas with plenty of shocks and deliciously twisted happenings , being compellingly directed with well staged set pieces and plenty of startling visual content and imagination enough . Above average horror movie in which the frightening , otherworldly happenings developing themselves little by little , at the beginning alarming hints of an eerie and well-planned witchery conspiracy begin to emerge, enfolding the family in a shroud of suspicion and mental agony until a surprising conclusion . The story is well paced , suffering from some disturbing incidents of varying quality , packing nice as well as scary moments . There are some really creepy scenes with extreme horror , ghastly surprises and outstanding also the pleasantly visual look . This Hereditary (2018) results to be a seamless mix of horror and a few doses of dark humor . Interpretations are uniformly good . Here stands out Toni Collette as the grievance mother who starts unraveling cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry . Along with the fine remaining cast giving top-notch interpretations , such as : Gabriel Byrne , Alex Wolff , Milly Shapiro and Ann Dowd as the suspicious Joan .
Special mention for the extremely unsettling and thrilling musical score by Colin Stetson . Likewise , adequate and imaginative cinematography by Pawel Pogorzelski . This suspenseful motion picture was competently directed by Ari Aster who often uses long uninterrupted camera shots. This graduated from the American Film Institute , Ari Aster , was born 1986 in New York City . He is a prestigious director and writer with penchant fot terror movies , being especially known for Hereditary (2018) , Midsommar (2019) and Disappointment Blvd in post-production. Rating : 7.5/10 . Better than average terror movie . The flick will appeal to supernatural horror fans .
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- Dec 19, 2021
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- Di Truyền
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $44,069,456
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $13,575,172
- Jun 10, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $80,239,658
- Runtime2 hours 7 minutes
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- 2.00 : 1
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