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 .
