Hereditary

Parental Rating: R

Contains: Language    Nudity    Violence    Drug Use    Adult Content    

Jill's Review

Opens June 8, 2018

Runs 127 minutes

Grandma dies and her family goes into mourning. Her daughter Annie (Toni Collette) continues building her weird dollhouses and starts to see strange things around the house. Her husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne) doesn't really understand what is going on. The son Peter (Alex Wolfe) starts experiencing strange occurances and just numbs himself with more drugs. The daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) is an odd bird. She is deeply affected by her grandmother's passing. She doesn't know how to deal with her grief. The family is haunted and soon learns more than they want to know about their crazy ancestors.

Ok. I was really looking forward to this movie. I love horror films and this one had a great cast, including Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne. And, it was receiving terrific reviews. It had to be great, right? WRONG. It builds very slowly. There is nothing scary in the first half of the film, at all. It is mostly a family drama about a family that you don't really like. The scene where Peter takes his sister Charlie to a party and has an accident on the way home is just ridiculous. The end of the film is the biggest head scratcher of all. It is like the director woke up and decided he needed to put some horror in the film. So he did. And some old naked people in a treehouse. Just utterly dumb. I was extremely disappointed in this film. While the performances are fine, the whole movie just doesn't work. Go see A Quiet Place - one of the best scary films ever.

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