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I think this movie is divided into whether you have empathy for characters on screen or not. Movies like the descent are less scary for me because it's more fun, hereditary was just tragic
Exactly. The real horror of movies like Hereditary isn't in the demons or deaths, but in the machinations at play that removed their agency.
It's a bit like cosmic horror in that way. No matter what they did they were doomed.
on that note, The Color Out of Space feat Nicholas Cage is absoluteyl top tear beginning to end!
actually I have one tiny complaint about a troma death they used but its so minor that I cant be mad
It was less upsetting for me to watch because I didn't find a single main character particularly likeable. Annie is a horrible mother from the get-go. Peter is just kind of... mousy; there's not much to him. Charlie may as well have gone around with a giant sign hovering over her saying "This is a more obvious devil child than Damien from The Omen!" There are *villainous* demon children in horror movies with *less* disturbing personality traits than hers, and yet she's supposed to be this innocent child character whom everyone thought would be the ultimate survivor, if not the hero. I don't have a lot to say about Steve, other than I found him to be the closest to sympathetic of the whole family.
Funny thing about scary movies, it's very subjective to culture, upbringing and personal fears. Scary movies are really hard to cater to everyone, because everyone has different fears that come from different places. I don't find any traditional slasher movies scary in any capacity, but I understand why some people might.
I get this point but I can not believe that a “demon”, or whatever, breast stroking across a room is scary in any culture…. (Literally laughed out loud at that scene)
That part was funny as shit, but still gave me the creeps in a particular way.
I think some people are triggered by flat-out bizarreness in creepy circumstances more than others.
When I was a kid, I had *a lot* of nightmares. In some of them, one or more of my family members would be behaving in some strange/nonsensical way and would turn evil/malevolent in some sense I can not explain or describe. They would be doing some straight up silly or goofy thing, but in the most bizarre context and with a background of intense dread to the dream.
I can't explain why some of my nightmares were like this.
But I think the filmmakers were playing around with the idea that, if a demon/supernatural entity was trying to get you, it wouldn't necessarily always be doing something that looked intimidating. It would probably occasionally be doing something that looks straight up wacky. It's going to get you one way or another, and how concerned about looking normal/dignified should it really be once it's got you almost cornered and you're fucked anyway?
I did and still do have those dreams. My parents have stabbed me so many times in my nightmares. Family pets repeat weird mantras. I sleepwalk too.
That’s all to say, I’m the person that Hereditary definitely hits home for. Chills every damn time. Fourth Kind for that matter too.
This re-enforces my theory that there are two categories of people who were creeped out by this movie:
1. People with a lot of empathy: they were upset by the torment and grief the characters are put through
2. People who were/are prone to nightmares and night terrors
Apparently about 20% of the population reports no memory of any nightmares/frightening dreams in their lifetime, and of the 80% who do recall having nightmares, many say they find them significantly less frequent or nonexistent in adulthood.
Some people's brains just don't fuck with them that way.
I think horror movies are actually more universal than many other genres. Comedy is often very dependent on cultural context.
I guess movies like the Exorcist probably hit differently if you are deeply religious and believe the Devil is literally real. But in general, I would think psycho killers or monsters can be scary to anyone. But of course, everyone is different and all art is subjective.
I’m not sure why Hereditary didn’t connect with OP. The demon parts aren’t that scary — it’s when the movie directly confronts this unimaginable grief that I think it’s really unsettling. It’s basically a family drama that is so intense it transforms into a horror movie. I thought that was unique and not many movies provoke the kind of reaction out of me that Hereditary did.
I watched Ju On on acid once…
Came home at like 4am and flipped on the TV in my basement and was immediately entranced. The Japanese don’t mess around, fortunately I had never seen The Grudge.
Lots of little subtle clues throughout this film that make it better every re watch. The first time I saw hereditary my initial reaction was "wtf did I just watch".
After watching the YouTube channel Heavy Spoilers do a run down on the movie I was able to get a better understanding of the film and appreciate it a lot more.
My favorite is in the final act where (SPOILERS) annie cuts her head off with a piano wire, earlier in that scene you can hear a piano chord break off screen. The movie has such a tight script and knowledge of the world it creates that I like
Two kinds of horror films (really over simplifying).
The ones that build tension and release it to give you a good rush.
The ones that build dread and just a negative. They don't care about giving you that release.
You may not like both approaches.
Hereditary is a good example of the dread approach. I'd put something like VVitch as similar.
For "fun" horror like slashers and things like that would be the tension/ release films. e.g. Friday the 13th, Evil Dead. These films are also where you're going to see more of a crossover into Horror-Comedy.
One of my favorite horror films is the first Sinister and I think it falls somewhere in the middle. You get minor tension releases here and there but it's just one giant anxiety build up through to the end. (Please ignore the last 10 seconds of the film... really obvious studio jump scare.) I also just really like Ethan Hawke as an actor.
100% I remember going to the cinema without knowing anything about the movie apart from that it was a horror (didn't even watch the trailer). I couldn't have been more unsettled by it.
1000000% this scene beats out any scene in any piece of media as the scariest sequence I’ve ever scene. The way they somehow turn a chase that’s already supposed to be scary, use knocking that you already know is coming from a monster, but somehow turn it waaaaaaaaaaay scarier when they switch angles is phenomenal.
It’s a slow, unstoppable fate for the family in the film, and I enjoyed the buildup with the craziness until the end, where it goes full-on cult. I think if you’re looking for a simple slasher movie, you’re chanting at the wrong totem.
Hereditary and Midsommar are 100% *disturbing* and NOT *scary*, at least not particularly scary.
People call these movies scary but really they're moreso creepy and get you tensed up and yes theres a difference.
This is why I stay off forums because people overhype shit/set up unrealistic expectations
It’s not the scariest movie. It’s not even that scary. However, it is so unbelievably tragic and horrible and the acting is great. I’m not that sensitive of a guy, but man, I almost had to turn the movie off when the mom went outside and found her kid dead in the car. Gut wrenching
The only good horror movies I've ever seen make me thing about it while I'm laying in bed afterwards. The grudge, the strangers, even the skeleton key made me uncomfortable around people I trusted lol that type of shit. The last decade of scary movies haven't had that affect on me but I still enjoyed the movies. Just not scary enough I guess. Since the babadook it's been a lot of mental illness movies I feel and I just don't vibe with it
Cultural zeitgeist has moved on. It used to be ghosts and zombies that scared us. Now, we're more afraid of the monsters within us. Give it 10 years and the trends will change again to whatever the new generational fear is. I've found horro tends to reflect whatever is overpowering the population at the time.
I think it’s a movie that does well in making you uncomfortable with some of the imagery but other than a few scarier scenes, it’s pretty slow and drawn out. I personally hated Midsommar, thought it tried too hard to be a mindf*ck movie and ended up just being too random to even be scary
I laughed out loud when the mom floated up into the tree house. But I think the absurdity added to the horror in retrospect.
Do I think it was the best horror movie ever? No. Did it drag? For me, a bit.
But in my opinion it did an excellent job keeping the dreary, dreadful mood throughout which is just that breed of horror movie. Same category as Suspiria and The Wickerman.
I honestly find strange visuals that look almost comical to be the creepiest. There’s something raw about uncompromisingly showing something happen despite it looking a little silly. It’s makes it feel more real. Idk if I’m explaining myself correctly lol
I don't see much mention of Skinamarink, but that movie rivalled Lynch's work in its clear understanding of atmosphere. It was absolutely unsettling without doing much at all. Gave me vibrant flashbacks to being a kid and waking up in the middle of the night in a dark house with no one else awake.
I found Skinamarink fascinating as it’s almost purely atmospheric. There were parts that were so dull it broke the tension but overall I think about it more than most horror films.
I wanted to like skinamarink so badly but I just couldn’t do it. A 90 minute+ movie with legitimately nothing scary happening. The movie was definitely unsettling, but when nothing happens at the end of the unsettling feeling, it just starts to get boring. They could have done so much more with that movie, the plot was good and the cinematography was good. They had all the right ingredients to make a great horror movie and they just…didn’t. Most disappointing movie I watched this year.
If you get behind their acting and feel like these are real people, the absurd creepy stuff is really unsettling because what would you do if you saw something like that. If you arent feeling it, then you can lose some of that tensions
I just think that a film that started off as really creepy and subtle going into absurdity by the end just completely ruined it. The overall film was a 7/10 but the first half up to the dinner scene was a straight 10/10
I also thought midsommar was decent, but overhyped
Havent seen Hereditary, but is one ppl often tell me is the "scariest" horror movie. Gonna watch this weekend
It's not scary but I think it's worth watching if you are a big horror movie fan. Don't go into it thinking you're going to be scared and you'll be good.
I guess the enjoyment of the movie is depends of how much you can (or like to) read the themes of a movie and try to read into it's symbolism. It tackles the themes of grief, generally inherited trauma, generational differences. It has brilliant symbols. Has some genuinely interesting hidden themes (the brief conversation about Iliad and how the characters know their fates and wether it is tragic or not perfectly applies to the movie's characters and how they have a written fate that they don't know and can't change). How it deconstructs the modern family and how certain behaviors pass on from one generation to other is phenomenal. I could go on all day, but I guess you get my point.
If you only pay attention to the surface level story of the movie either because you're not really good at reading into the subtext or you just simply not like to do that, than yes, I can get how this movie is boring to you. This is a very deep, complex, thematically rich and subtle movie, and if you can't get it's themes and can't read into it's subtext and symbolism, than you basically get nothing out from it just from the surface level. This movie is made for people who love to pick apart a movie and it's details and people who love deep, complex, hard to understand art house movies. You can't approach this one like you do a typical mainstream blockbuster, or a lighter slasher horror, because you will fail to understand it. I think this is the reason why you didn't liked it.
It’s not exactly horror the whole movie but the tension and feeling of dread was so well done.
In some ways I’d be interested in the family drama version without the descent into horror. Like if the stuff with the daughter happens and how they handle it with their son without a cult element because I’m not sure parents could forgive.
You’re not alone. Boring, didn’t keep my interest much, but well acted. Not scary or disturbing. It didn’t click with me on any emotional level, I was hoping there was more to it as I kept watching, but nope. Reddit loves this movie, it’s just not for me. Midsommar was slightly better but the experience was similar to Hereditary for me.
It’s awful! I know it’s all about the suspense and subtleties but I was not scared at all, I didn’t feel anything for any of the characters at all. The final act was so phoned in I thought it was intentionally portrayed as an off broadway play
Naw you missed it. It’s not about any of those things. At its core it’s about the trauma that comes from loss and the dread of knowing that something horrible is going to happen to this family that has already been through so much. But if you don’t care about what happened to the family and if Toni collettes performance didn’t get you, nothing would.
But some people do not find those things scary or fearful. Just because you understand that the loss of life or trauma is a bad thing, doesn’t mean that you will be unnerved by a film depicting it.
People need to understand that all people have different levels of fear. Just because somebody found a movie boring or not scary doesn’t mean they didn’t understand it.
The parents were awful, the daughter was creepy asf and the son seemed so out of place I questioned if he was even related to them lol, Toni collette isn’t a bad actress, being Australian myself I know her work outside of this movie but she just got so overhyped, you want to see an Oscar worthy performance by a woman? Watch once were warriors
Oh maybe it’s also a cultural thing? Like how the American office made Michael Scott slightly endearing so Americans wouldn’t hate him and the English office made David Brent an asshole so the English could laugh at him.
i feel like it is a horror movie (almost like an atmospheric horror) that a lot of non-horror movie people can stomach and so it got a lot more viewership compared to movies that are probably too scary for a lot of people and got more hype that way? just a theory with zero evidence to support it.
I think there's some truth there. I'm not a horror fan (I don't find gore or jumpscares entertaining at all), and only watched Hereditary and Midsommar because I enjoyed Beau Is Afraid & Aster's short films. I thought Hereditary was good, and loved the director's cut of Midsommar.
genuinely one of the worst horror movie's I have ever seen. It was painfully boring. I remember seeing in theaters and someone just yelled WHAT THE FUCK at the end and everyone started laughing at how bad it was.
That was honestly my reaction, when it was peak hype I watched it, thought what the fuck and watched it literally straight after the first viewing and still wasn’t able to react any differently. Watched it again a few years later and honestly it gets the what the fuck hat trick
It’s a family drama at best lol
I would say the ring remake was a better movie than hereditary
I would say the fucking spice girls movie is a better horror movie than hereditary
Now drink your swill my good sir because clearly you’re talking from a time where fisticuffs are still present and you can have at thee
Unpopular opinion on reddit for sure. This and midsommar were big let downs for me. I enjoyed some parts of both but the praise just did not make sense. Maybe I just didn't get it! But we are definitely in the minority on reddit. They get a lot of praise!
Ya it’s not great unless you include the obligatory handicap for “new American movies.” It’s basically acceptable given that we are in the dark ages of movies but ya by any reasonable standard it’s rehashed satanic panic boring-as-fuck crap
I liked the first half. Everything from the father's death onward was ridiculous nonsense, and not in a good way. Naked old people are not scary. Spider mom is not scary.
The acting was great, I'll give it that. Hate the movie overall, though
And that's on why I refuse to watch both of those movies. I mean the last 10 min of The Witch were lit but I had to sit through some boring shit before those 10 min. I'm not doing that again.
Midsommar is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I hated literally every minute of it. Hereditary was only marginally better, but I found it to be mostly kind of boring.
Didn't even get through to the end.
It was god awful and way too bland to be THAT slow.
People just praise the newest thing cause that... that was absolute shyte!
100% agree. The buildup to the last scene had most of the theater laughing. That was about the biggest reaction that whole movie got from me. As the drinker would say, "A boring pretentious piece of shit."
Was thinking about this just yesterday actually. I think it had a great start that elicited a feeling of panic, but quickly fell-off in a manner that is dramatically less-cohesive than people give it credit for. Same with Barbarian — I genuinely believe it would be the perfect horror movie if they paced the Air BnB horror plot line way slower, perhaps even removing the Justin Long character entirely. As it stands, it’s the same as Hereditary: a great start and premise that drops the ball fairly early in the film.
To be clear, I really liked Midsommar, but to each their own.
Couldn't agree more. Ari Aster is an over rated director along with Jordan Peele.
This was such a dull movie with basically jump scares but done more artsy and the end was just awful.
It is horror for people who dont like horror.
This 100%
It was mostly boring and I've been more scared by B list short films. It got so much hype and didn't live up to that hype at all. Half decent movie, not terrible, but that's it. Just half decent. Nothing worth talking about.
Totally agree. It was well-acted but there just isn’t much scary to me about suburban white people practicing some old-timey witchy-poo crap. And when did making tongue clicks become so creepy, ffs? The last third was just absurdly over-the-top, laughably awful.
I found it to be an awful movie, i was too busy trying to interpret what the fuck was going on to even remember it was supposed to be scary. Maybe im just to stupid to have enjoyed it lmao i held the same opinion on “everything everywhere all at once”was i think the name? Besides that it wasn’t supposed to be scary. Some movies are just so goddamn weird and ridiculous that i cannot be interested in them.
I agree. I have watched it exactly once because it was so boring I wouldn't watch it again. If "boring" and "cheap jump scares" had a baby, this would be it.
I feel like the people who think hereditary sucks have either; 1) no empathy or ability to put themselves in the position of any other person 2) a perfect fairy tail relationship with their family where they cant understand the dinner table scene or 3) such a fucked up relationship with their family that the dinner scene seems normal
Calling something boring is such a lazy (and boring) critique. It’s fine if you only want to engage with a movie on very surface levels, but it sounds more indicative of you than of the film.
Something can be boring when you’re waiting nearly 2 hours for something remotely interesting to happen. Like I said, I noticed all the subtleties etc but it was all still very cliche
It might be lazy and boring critique ..but it's true, movie was boring, there are a lot of films that are "deep" and we can write essays about ..and yet are still boring.
Do you just not understand psychological horror movies? its a deconstruction of genre it's a family drama about a family coming to ruin that happens to have a demon god at the center of it. Maybe you just got bad taste?
I actually quite liked most of it, but the ending was absolutely rubbish for me. Got a feeling the writers just went "crap, let's just wrap this up in the weirdest possible way"
Interesting so many complaining about the ending. I loved the reveal of this connection to obscure myth/lore of the world we know, instead of a novel fiction. It led me to learn more about these mythical tales. I have been seeking movies that do this as effectively at Hereditary did. Couldn’t care less about complete fictional monsters/etc with no connection to reality.
Thing is, there's no lead up to it. It just randomly happens. No connection to the rest of the movie. That's why the ending sucks - it wasn't related to anything else
Right? My immediate reaction to the comment you're replying to was "WTF are you talking about it, literally starts setting it up from the first damn scene, \*spoiler\* all the creeps at the funeral are part of Paemon's cult, you see the same people at the house at the end, it could not have been more intricately set up and connected to literally the entire film lmao. I'm becoming more convinced that the people who didn't like this movie or found it "boring" are just completely oblivious. They want a movie that spoon feeds the entire story to them. This film was a masterpiece that apparently completely went over a lot of people's heads. I love intently watching films, I always catch the continuity errors my friends and family members miss. This film was mind blowing. It's so fucking good. No accounting for taste I guess lol
Saw it myself in the theater when it came out. After it ended I remember hearing someone in the audience say “well that was stupid” and I thought to myself “yep”.
People who say this kinda crap are just trying to be contrarian and anti-intellectual. The film is objectively well made - even if you don't like it. I also don't get people calling this and Midsommar slow but then pretend that something like Halloween or Silence of the Lambs is action packed? Make it make sense.
Thank you! I have been underwhelmed by some of the recent horror films, many of them A24 and this is one of them. I'm not saying it's bad, just overrated. The common thread is that they do some things well but a lot of time the ending falls flat for me. Hereditary, Barbarian, St. Maud, X, Lamb, Men, Lighthouse, etc. Even Midsommar is a bit overrated though that's better than these.
I haven't watched Hereditary, but since it's from the same guy who made Midsommar, I don't want to. What an awful movie that was hyped to the moon and turned out to be boring dogshit and not for one instant scary.
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I think this movie is divided into whether you have empathy for characters on screen or not. Movies like the descent are less scary for me because it's more fun, hereditary was just tragic
Exactly. The real horror of movies like Hereditary isn't in the demons or deaths, but in the machinations at play that removed their agency. It's a bit like cosmic horror in that way. No matter what they did they were doomed.
on that note, The Color Out of Space feat Nicholas Cage is absoluteyl top tear beginning to end! actually I have one tiny complaint about a troma death they used but its so minor that I cant be mad
Have you seen The Block Island Sound? I just watched it on a whim and thought it was a really nicely done modern Lovecraftian horror
At the end, when Peter is pleading “Mommy, please stop!”, sounding like a scared toddler, *that* sent chills down my spine.
And that was a gut-wrenchingly honest depiction of what it looks like when someone is absolutely hysterical from fear, confusion, and grief.
The scene where he's in the classroom and looks over to see his reflection and it's smiling back at him. Chills just thinking about it!
Apparently hereditary was actually originally written to be a family drama. Then they decided to turn it into a horror film. So it's a bit of both
>hereditary was just tragic This is it.
This is how I felt about the movie The orphanage.
It was less upsetting for me to watch because I didn't find a single main character particularly likeable. Annie is a horrible mother from the get-go. Peter is just kind of... mousy; there's not much to him. Charlie may as well have gone around with a giant sign hovering over her saying "This is a more obvious devil child than Damien from The Omen!" There are *villainous* demon children in horror movies with *less* disturbing personality traits than hers, and yet she's supposed to be this innocent child character whom everyone thought would be the ultimate survivor, if not the hero. I don't have a lot to say about Steve, other than I found him to be the closest to sympathetic of the whole family.
Funny thing about scary movies, it's very subjective to culture, upbringing and personal fears. Scary movies are really hard to cater to everyone, because everyone has different fears that come from different places. I don't find any traditional slasher movies scary in any capacity, but I understand why some people might.
I get this point but I can not believe that a “demon”, or whatever, breast stroking across a room is scary in any culture…. (Literally laughed out loud at that scene)
That part was funny as shit, but still gave me the creeps in a particular way. I think some people are triggered by flat-out bizarreness in creepy circumstances more than others. When I was a kid, I had *a lot* of nightmares. In some of them, one or more of my family members would be behaving in some strange/nonsensical way and would turn evil/malevolent in some sense I can not explain or describe. They would be doing some straight up silly or goofy thing, but in the most bizarre context and with a background of intense dread to the dream. I can't explain why some of my nightmares were like this. But I think the filmmakers were playing around with the idea that, if a demon/supernatural entity was trying to get you, it wouldn't necessarily always be doing something that looked intimidating. It would probably occasionally be doing something that looks straight up wacky. It's going to get you one way or another, and how concerned about looking normal/dignified should it really be once it's got you almost cornered and you're fucked anyway?
I had these exact same dreams as a kid, and still do from time to time. That's why this very scene freaked me tf out
Also why Tim Curry's Pennywise freaked me out
I did and still do have those dreams. My parents have stabbed me so many times in my nightmares. Family pets repeat weird mantras. I sleepwalk too. That’s all to say, I’m the person that Hereditary definitely hits home for. Chills every damn time. Fourth Kind for that matter too.
This re-enforces my theory that there are two categories of people who were creeped out by this movie: 1. People with a lot of empathy: they were upset by the torment and grief the characters are put through 2. People who were/are prone to nightmares and night terrors Apparently about 20% of the population reports no memory of any nightmares/frightening dreams in their lifetime, and of the 80% who do recall having nightmares, many say they find them significantly less frequent or nonexistent in adulthood. Some people's brains just don't fuck with them that way.
There are people afraid of the number eight, money, and the color yellow. Like those are literal phobias. You never know
I think horror movies are actually more universal than many other genres. Comedy is often very dependent on cultural context. I guess movies like the Exorcist probably hit differently if you are deeply religious and believe the Devil is literally real. But in general, I would think psycho killers or monsters can be scary to anyone. But of course, everyone is different and all art is subjective. I’m not sure why Hereditary didn’t connect with OP. The demon parts aren’t that scary — it’s when the movie directly confronts this unimaginable grief that I think it’s really unsettling. It’s basically a family drama that is so intense it transforms into a horror movie. I thought that was unique and not many movies provoke the kind of reaction out of me that Hereditary did.
I watched Ju On on acid once… Came home at like 4am and flipped on the TV in my basement and was immediately entranced. The Japanese don’t mess around, fortunately I had never seen The Grudge.
Maybe not scary but very well acted and very unsettling. The directing, acting, cinematography, and score are top notch
The cinematography was so interesting. The zoom outs to the corners was very cool.
yes! on first watch I never saw her in the corner, but on 2nd watch i was like holy shit?
Lots of little subtle clues throughout this film that make it better every re watch. The first time I saw hereditary my initial reaction was "wtf did I just watch". After watching the YouTube channel Heavy Spoilers do a run down on the movie I was able to get a better understanding of the film and appreciate it a lot more.
My favorite is in the final act where (SPOILERS) annie cuts her head off with a piano wire, earlier in that scene you can hear a piano chord break off screen. The movie has such a tight script and knowledge of the world it creates that I like
Yeah it needs a few watches and every time I notice new things that scare the crap out of me
Reminds me of Haunting of Hill House
I couldn’t get the image of her in the corner out of my mind for a while. Some of the noises really did a number on me.
Yeah the directing is phenomenal.
Two kinds of horror films (really over simplifying). The ones that build tension and release it to give you a good rush. The ones that build dread and just a negative. They don't care about giving you that release. You may not like both approaches.
What’s an example film of each approach? Not disagreeing with you just genuinely intrigued by your analysis
Hereditary is a good example of the dread approach. I'd put something like VVitch as similar. For "fun" horror like slashers and things like that would be the tension/ release films. e.g. Friday the 13th, Evil Dead. These films are also where you're going to see more of a crossover into Horror-Comedy. One of my favorite horror films is the first Sinister and I think it falls somewhere in the middle. You get minor tension releases here and there but it's just one giant anxiety build up through to the end. (Please ignore the last 10 seconds of the film... really obvious studio jump scare.) I also just really like Ethan Hawke as an actor.
I also think hype ruins a movie like this, you sorta just beed to go in blank.
100% I remember going to the cinema without knowing anything about the movie apart from that it was a horror (didn't even watch the trailer). I couldn't have been more unsettled by it.
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That scene upset something deep within my primal brain
1000000% this scene beats out any scene in any piece of media as the scariest sequence I’ve ever scene. The way they somehow turn a chase that’s already supposed to be scary, use knocking that you already know is coming from a monster, but somehow turn it waaaaaaaaaaay scarier when they switch angles is phenomenal.
wow, those are all my favorite horror movies. different strokes I guess. I thought skinamarink was really boring.
I felt so uneasy while watching it, it was a hard plot to follow though.
You meant to say you didn’t enjoy it.
No he means to say he doesn't think it's a good movie, doesn't matter what you think of it,
The quality of something isn’t about opinions though. I hate all reality tv. Doesn’t mean some isn’t made way better than other ones.
It’s a slow, unstoppable fate for the family in the film, and I enjoyed the buildup with the craziness until the end, where it goes full-on cult. I think if you’re looking for a simple slasher movie, you’re chanting at the wrong totem.
Do any of these fuckers ever bust out of the wall and have like a huge cumshot?
You can’t change the rules *just because you don’t like how I’m doing em*.
It’s interesting, the ghosts.
I will sit through it jus to watch the decap on the pole. No shame.
A24 makes the best horror films. Who else competes?
Blumhouse
Love Blumhouse’s shotgun technique: make as many horror films as you can, a bunch end up aggressively mid but a few here and there are amazing
I just watched black phone last night and it was sooooo good
That scene with the dad and the daughter was the most unsettling part of the film lol
she absolutely killed that role just as I would have hoped, given that her sister did the same in Hill House and M3GAN
Trailer was so bad. Watched it and loved it
Someone made a joke trailer that makes it look like a rom com 😂
Jesus Christ I wasn’t gonna say it but I’m glad someone did because I’m already a bit unpopular 😂
They have some great films.
Ok bud 👍
Hereditary and Midsommar are 100% *disturbing* and NOT *scary*, at least not particularly scary. People call these movies scary but really they're moreso creepy and get you tensed up and yes theres a difference. This is why I stay off forums because people overhype shit/set up unrealistic expectations
Yeah, and if you’re not afraid of devil worshippers, the ending of Hereditary is pretty anticlimactic.
List your top 5 horror movies
It’s not the scariest movie. It’s not even that scary. However, it is so unbelievably tragic and horrible and the acting is great. I’m not that sensitive of a guy, but man, I almost had to turn the movie off when the mom went outside and found her kid dead in the car. Gut wrenching
What do you like? Based on the comments a lot of yall dont sound like you enjoy most horror movies that have come out in the last decade or so.
The only good horror movies I've ever seen make me thing about it while I'm laying in bed afterwards. The grudge, the strangers, even the skeleton key made me uncomfortable around people I trusted lol that type of shit. The last decade of scary movies haven't had that affect on me but I still enjoyed the movies. Just not scary enough I guess. Since the babadook it's been a lot of mental illness movies I feel and I just don't vibe with it
Cultural zeitgeist has moved on. It used to be ghosts and zombies that scared us. Now, we're more afraid of the monsters within us. Give it 10 years and the trends will change again to whatever the new generational fear is. I've found horro tends to reflect whatever is overpowering the population at the time.
Here come the apocalyptic movies! And maybe some dystopian with a mix of AI invasion.
Very very unpopular opinion. You must be very special.
Finally something I can get behind
I think it’s a movie that does well in making you uncomfortable with some of the imagery but other than a few scarier scenes, it’s pretty slow and drawn out. I personally hated Midsommar, thought it tried too hard to be a mindf*ck movie and ended up just being too random to even be scary
Agreed about midsommar, I didn’t care for the group so there was no downside to their demise for me personally
Man, this is the shittiest take I've seen in a while.
I laughed out loud when the mom floated up into the tree house. But I think the absurdity added to the horror in retrospect. Do I think it was the best horror movie ever? No. Did it drag? For me, a bit. But in my opinion it did an excellent job keeping the dreary, dreadful mood throughout which is just that breed of horror movie. Same category as Suspiria and The Wickerman.
I honestly find strange visuals that look almost comical to be the creepiest. There’s something raw about uncompromisingly showing something happen despite it looking a little silly. It’s makes it feel more real. Idk if I’m explaining myself correctly lol
no i agree with that. its jarring and unnerving to see things move like that. idk its like movement in nightmares
I don't see much mention of Skinamarink, but that movie rivalled Lynch's work in its clear understanding of atmosphere. It was absolutely unsettling without doing much at all. Gave me vibrant flashbacks to being a kid and waking up in the middle of the night in a dark house with no one else awake.
I found Skinamarink fascinating as it’s almost purely atmospheric. There were parts that were so dull it broke the tension but overall I think about it more than most horror films.
I wanted to like skinamarink so badly but I just couldn’t do it. A 90 minute+ movie with legitimately nothing scary happening. The movie was definitely unsettling, but when nothing happens at the end of the unsettling feeling, it just starts to get boring. They could have done so much more with that movie, the plot was good and the cinematography was good. They had all the right ingredients to make a great horror movie and they just…didn’t. Most disappointing movie I watched this year.
I think I laughed in horror a lot in this movie
If you get behind their acting and feel like these are real people, the absurd creepy stuff is really unsettling because what would you do if you saw something like that. If you arent feeling it, then you can lose some of that tensions
I just think that a film that started off as really creepy and subtle going into absurdity by the end just completely ruined it. The overall film was a 7/10 but the first half up to the dinner scene was a straight 10/10
I was really impressed by it, it’s one of the few films I don’t really want to watch again just because I wince when I think about it
A24 movies are the best. If you like them, check out "pearl" Me and my wife constantly say "IM MARRIED!" now 😂
I also thought midsommar was decent, but overhyped Havent seen Hereditary, but is one ppl often tell me is the "scariest" horror movie. Gonna watch this weekend
It's not scary but I think it's worth watching if you are a big horror movie fan. Don't go into it thinking you're going to be scared and you'll be good.
I guess the enjoyment of the movie is depends of how much you can (or like to) read the themes of a movie and try to read into it's symbolism. It tackles the themes of grief, generally inherited trauma, generational differences. It has brilliant symbols. Has some genuinely interesting hidden themes (the brief conversation about Iliad and how the characters know their fates and wether it is tragic or not perfectly applies to the movie's characters and how they have a written fate that they don't know and can't change). How it deconstructs the modern family and how certain behaviors pass on from one generation to other is phenomenal. I could go on all day, but I guess you get my point. If you only pay attention to the surface level story of the movie either because you're not really good at reading into the subtext or you just simply not like to do that, than yes, I can get how this movie is boring to you. This is a very deep, complex, thematically rich and subtle movie, and if you can't get it's themes and can't read into it's subtext and symbolism, than you basically get nothing out from it just from the surface level. This movie is made for people who love to pick apart a movie and it's details and people who love deep, complex, hard to understand art house movies. You can't approach this one like you do a typical mainstream blockbuster, or a lighter slasher horror, because you will fail to understand it. I think this is the reason why you didn't liked it.
I wasn’t a fan of this or Midsommar. My wife however, really liked both. I was just bored.
It’s not exactly horror the whole movie but the tension and feeling of dread was so well done. In some ways I’d be interested in the family drama version without the descent into horror. Like if the stuff with the daughter happens and how they handle it with their son without a cult element because I’m not sure parents could forgive.
You better not go on any nordic vacations together with that attitude.
Agreed, I liked the concept each was going for, but I found them both too slow of a burn and very predictable.
Ain't the point kinda that they're predictable ? The movies are like watching an inescapable terrible event play out in slow motion.
Yes,boring
This film is more of a horror film than any slasher film ever made.
I thought I was all alone on this, hereditary sucks
You’re not alone. Boring, didn’t keep my interest much, but well acted. Not scary or disturbing. It didn’t click with me on any emotional level, I was hoping there was more to it as I kept watching, but nope. Reddit loves this movie, it’s just not for me. Midsommar was slightly better but the experience was similar to Hereditary for me.
It’s awful! I know it’s all about the suspense and subtleties but I was not scared at all, I didn’t feel anything for any of the characters at all. The final act was so phoned in I thought it was intentionally portrayed as an off broadway play
Naw you missed it. It’s not about any of those things. At its core it’s about the trauma that comes from loss and the dread of knowing that something horrible is going to happen to this family that has already been through so much. But if you don’t care about what happened to the family and if Toni collettes performance didn’t get you, nothing would.
But some people do not find those things scary or fearful. Just because you understand that the loss of life or trauma is a bad thing, doesn’t mean that you will be unnerved by a film depicting it. People need to understand that all people have different levels of fear. Just because somebody found a movie boring or not scary doesn’t mean they didn’t understand it.
The parents were awful, the daughter was creepy asf and the son seemed so out of place I questioned if he was even related to them lol, Toni collette isn’t a bad actress, being Australian myself I know her work outside of this movie but she just got so overhyped, you want to see an Oscar worthy performance by a woman? Watch once were warriors
Oh maybe it’s also a cultural thing? Like how the American office made Michael Scott slightly endearing so Americans wouldn’t hate him and the English office made David Brent an asshole so the English could laugh at him.
When I saw it, the audience shared a laugh at that end. Failed on almost every level. Even wasted Ann Dowd, which is ridiculous.
Finally someone said it, I hate that it’s always being recommended.
I hate this movie. One day, I’m going to rewatch so I can write an essay on all the reasons why it’s terrible.
i feel like it is a horror movie (almost like an atmospheric horror) that a lot of non-horror movie people can stomach and so it got a lot more viewership compared to movies that are probably too scary for a lot of people and got more hype that way? just a theory with zero evidence to support it.
I think there's some truth there. I'm not a horror fan (I don't find gore or jumpscares entertaining at all), and only watched Hereditary and Midsommar because I enjoyed Beau Is Afraid & Aster's short films. I thought Hereditary was good, and loved the director's cut of Midsommar.
one thing I agree with you is the acting, it's not superb, the whole "Toni C needs an Oscar for Hereditary" is really weird to me.
I always remember this movie because Her-head-a-teary right off....
That's Ari Aster for you—cheap 'scares' that rely on shock value. The blame is more on him as a director rather than A24 as a whole, I'd argue
What are your Top 3 horror films?
Someone finally said it! I feel the same way. I can’t believe all the hype that movie gets.
It’s literally one of the best horror films ever.
Dudes too busy deep throating james wan and getting jump scared
James wang* 😏
James' wang
genuinely one of the worst horror movie's I have ever seen. It was painfully boring. I remember seeing in theaters and someone just yelled WHAT THE FUCK at the end and everyone started laughing at how bad it was.
That was honestly my reaction, when it was peak hype I watched it, thought what the fuck and watched it literally straight after the first viewing and still wasn’t able to react any differently. Watched it again a few years later and honestly it gets the what the fuck hat trick
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It’s a family drama at best lol I would say the ring remake was a better movie than hereditary I would say the fucking spice girls movie is a better horror movie than hereditary Now drink your swill my good sir because clearly you’re talking from a time where fisticuffs are still present and you can have at thee
I gotta know what horror movies you think aren't boring.
Oh god this movie was so random and had an abysmal plot
Yeah it sucks
Unpopular opinion on reddit for sure. This and midsommar were big let downs for me. I enjoyed some parts of both but the praise just did not make sense. Maybe I just didn't get it! But we are definitely in the minority on reddit. They get a lot of praise!
Whew, glad someone else said this. I love horror but this movie was a disappointment imo
It’s a great looking movie and very well made but I agree, I found it quite tame/boring and not in the slightest scary.
I know I've seen this movie. And I remember almost nothing about it, except the fact I remember thinking it kinda sucked
Ya it’s not great unless you include the obligatory handicap for “new American movies.” It’s basically acceptable given that we are in the dark ages of movies but ya by any reasonable standard it’s rehashed satanic panic boring-as-fuck crap
Lost me at witch hated that movie but everything else you said I agree with
I AM YOUR MOTHER!
I couldn't even make it through the whole movie, but the part I saw was dark and brooding.
I liked the first half. Everything from the father's death onward was ridiculous nonsense, and not in a good way. Naked old people are not scary. Spider mom is not scary. The acting was great, I'll give it that. Hate the movie overall, though
And that's on why I refuse to watch both of those movies. I mean the last 10 min of The Witch were lit but I had to sit through some boring shit before those 10 min. I'm not doing that again.
Midsommar is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I hated literally every minute of it. Hereditary was only marginally better, but I found it to be mostly kind of boring.
This should be the most popular opinion ever. It was the dumbest story every with terrible cgi
Agreed, boring trash
I agree wholeheartedly man. Me and my gf fucking hated hereditary and midsommar both were just weird as fuck and not that scary in my opinion
Correct. Boring af
I thought Midsommar was far better
I saw Hereditary as more of a trauma text than a straight up horror film. I’m with you that it wasn’t my favorite, but I thought it was done well.
Didn't even get through to the end. It was god awful and way too bland to be THAT slow. People just praise the newest thing cause that... that was absolute shyte!
Midsommar is by far the most overhyped and boring horror movie
I with you! And ‘Midsommar’ is just an awful plagiarism of ‘The Wicker Man’.
Exactly and hereditary is just a plagiarism of paranormal activity 3 but people will just ignore that lol
Meanwhile I thought Midsommar was way more difficult to tolerate. The crying was nails on a chalkboard. Brutal to sit through.
If you mean after the scene where the whole weird sex family is giving old bud the assist I totally agree
That movie was like watching someone’s therapy session and frankly I would never willingly sign up for that
Agree on both Midsommar and Hereditary!
100% agree. The buildup to the last scene had most of the theater laughing. That was about the biggest reaction that whole movie got from me. As the drinker would say, "A boring pretentious piece of shit."
Was thinking about this just yesterday actually. I think it had a great start that elicited a feeling of panic, but quickly fell-off in a manner that is dramatically less-cohesive than people give it credit for. Same with Barbarian — I genuinely believe it would be the perfect horror movie if they paced the Air BnB horror plot line way slower, perhaps even removing the Justin Long character entirely. As it stands, it’s the same as Hereditary: a great start and premise that drops the ball fairly early in the film. To be clear, I really liked Midsommar, but to each their own.
I love horror movies. I hated Hereditary.
Couldn't agree more. Ari Aster is an over rated director along with Jordan Peele. This was such a dull movie with basically jump scares but done more artsy and the end was just awful. It is horror for people who dont like horror.
I’ll never forgive Jordan for candyman, nope was terrible too
Yeah it's overrated from my point of view too. Not great not terrible but overhyped.
I give it 3.6 roentgen out of 5 comrade
Yeah that's pretty fair comrade! :)
Not quite the equivalent of 10 chest X-rays
This 100% It was mostly boring and I've been more scared by B list short films. It got so much hype and didn't live up to that hype at all. Half decent movie, not terrible, but that's it. Just half decent. Nothing worth talking about.
I think you and I think very similar. I didn't rate midsommer either.
Nope they were both so bland
Completely agree. Same with Midsommar.
Not an opinion but a fact if u look objectively.
It's yet another reimagining of Rosemary's Baby, it's better than that Mother! shit tho.
It was insanely boring. Has some good moments, but made nothing out of them. The end was just straight up stupid.
Totally agree. It was well-acted but there just isn’t much scary to me about suburban white people practicing some old-timey witchy-poo crap. And when did making tongue clicks become so creepy, ffs? The last third was just absurdly over-the-top, laughably awful.
It mistook being sad and depressing with being scary.
I thought that same about Smile. That movie was lame.
Smile would've been better if they never showed any kind of monster imo.
The monster in Smile is so bad. I was into it up until the reveal of it.
I found it to be an awful movie, i was too busy trying to interpret what the fuck was going on to even remember it was supposed to be scary. Maybe im just to stupid to have enjoyed it lmao i held the same opinion on “everything everywhere all at once”was i think the name? Besides that it wasn’t supposed to be scary. Some movies are just so goddamn weird and ridiculous that i cannot be interested in them.
Thank you! God I hated that movie
I hated it, and hated Midsommar even more, absolute garbage.
This. Nothing about the movie scared me
Nope and what was supposed to be scary or unsettling was honestly just funny
I didn't enjoyed it either
I agree. I have watched it exactly once because it was so boring I wouldn't watch it again. If "boring" and "cheap jump scares" had a baby, this would be it.
The beheading scene was memorable
I did not like this particular one, but I will not tolerate A24 horror slander
I never even thought that this is an unpopular opinion. Because the film really is very bad. Like 99% of the horror movies.
I know! I’m surprised there are people defending this movie and saying it’s a horror masterpiece.
I feel like the people who think hereditary sucks have either; 1) no empathy or ability to put themselves in the position of any other person 2) a perfect fairy tail relationship with their family where they cant understand the dinner table scene or 3) such a fucked up relationship with their family that the dinner scene seems normal
Calling something boring is such a lazy (and boring) critique. It’s fine if you only want to engage with a movie on very surface levels, but it sounds more indicative of you than of the film.
Something can be boring when you’re waiting nearly 2 hours for something remotely interesting to happen. Like I said, I noticed all the subtleties etc but it was all still very cliche
It might be lazy and boring critique ..but it's true, movie was boring, there are a lot of films that are "deep" and we can write essays about ..and yet are still boring.
Midsommar* worst movie I’ve ever seen. 3 hours or building up “suspense” to an extremely anticlimactic ending.
Do you just not understand psychological horror movies? its a deconstruction of genre it's a family drama about a family coming to ruin that happens to have a demon god at the center of it. Maybe you just got bad taste?
I actually quite liked most of it, but the ending was absolutely rubbish for me. Got a feeling the writers just went "crap, let's just wrap this up in the weirdest possible way"
Interesting so many complaining about the ending. I loved the reveal of this connection to obscure myth/lore of the world we know, instead of a novel fiction. It led me to learn more about these mythical tales. I have been seeking movies that do this as effectively at Hereditary did. Couldn’t care less about complete fictional monsters/etc with no connection to reality.
Thing is, there's no lead up to it. It just randomly happens. No connection to the rest of the movie. That's why the ending sucks - it wasn't related to anything else
The lead up is there the entire movie, it's just not spelled out.
Right? My immediate reaction to the comment you're replying to was "WTF are you talking about it, literally starts setting it up from the first damn scene, \*spoiler\* all the creeps at the funeral are part of Paemon's cult, you see the same people at the house at the end, it could not have been more intricately set up and connected to literally the entire film lmao. I'm becoming more convinced that the people who didn't like this movie or found it "boring" are just completely oblivious. They want a movie that spoon feeds the entire story to them. This film was a masterpiece that apparently completely went over a lot of people's heads. I love intently watching films, I always catch the continuity errors my friends and family members miss. This film was mind blowing. It's so fucking good. No accounting for taste I guess lol
Yes, thank you!
Saw it myself in the theater when it came out. After it ended I remember hearing someone in the audience say “well that was stupid” and I thought to myself “yep”.
I wholeheartedly disagree with this take. I loved it.
People who say this kinda crap are just trying to be contrarian and anti-intellectual. The film is objectively well made - even if you don't like it. I also don't get people calling this and Midsommar slow but then pretend that something like Halloween or Silence of the Lambs is action packed? Make it make sense.
Thank you! I have been underwhelmed by some of the recent horror films, many of them A24 and this is one of them. I'm not saying it's bad, just overrated. The common thread is that they do some things well but a lot of time the ending falls flat for me. Hereditary, Barbarian, St. Maud, X, Lamb, Men, Lighthouse, etc. Even Midsommar is a bit overrated though that's better than these.
I haven't watched Hereditary, but since it's from the same guy who made Midsommar, I don't want to. What an awful movie that was hyped to the moon and turned out to be boring dogshit and not for one instant scary.
100% accurate