299. Hereditary; movie review
HEREDITARY
Cert 15
127 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong threat, gory images, language, drugs misuse
So what's it all about? I needed to check out the summer box office horror hit and so, I made it, via roadworks, to Nottingham Showcase for a 10.30pm screening.
I kid you not. I know my devotion to the cause seems to have been slipping but this was a school night and I was the last person out of the car park at 1am.
A day later and I must have played Hereditary's end credit music, Judy Collins' Both Sides Now, ten times.... I had forgotten how much I like that song.
Anyway, Hereditary is about as far as Toni Collette could possibly come from Muriel's Wedding.
Here she plays progressively more crazed Annie who is in mourning for the death of a mother with whom she found it difficult to connect.
Meanwhile, her sullen, drug-taking son (Alex Wolff), strangely detached daughter (Milly Shapiro) and aloof husband (Gabriel Bryne) try to carry on with life.
Then further tragedy strikes and all hell lets loose.
Ari Aster's movie is odd in several ways, occasionally nodding its head towards comedy despite its horror intentions.
And the longer it progresses the more offbeat it becomes until a conclusion which is bafflingly weird.
On the minus side, it is yet another movie which leans on the premise of a potentially haunted house (or at least one where strange noises freak out the residents).
However, being aware of its panning by critics, I was surprised at how much it engaged me (particularly so late a night).
This could be as much down to the casting as much as the surreal content of the film.
For example, Collette is fab - totally manic in a way that I can't seeing her before.
Reasons to watch: Toni Collette gives an inspirationally insane performance
Reasons to avoid: There is some hackneyed horror
Laughs: Two
Jumps: Two
Vomit: None
Nudity: None
Overall rating: 7/10
Director quote - Ari Aster: "When I was pitching it, I called it a family tragedy that warps into a nightmare, in the same way life can feel like a nightmare when disaster strikes. I think the film is more in debt to domestic melodrama than to horror movies."
The big question - What does the ending mean?
So what's it all about? I needed to check out the summer box office horror hit and so, I made it, via roadworks, to Nottingham Showcase for a 10.30pm screening.
I kid you not. I know my devotion to the cause seems to have been slipping but this was a school night and I was the last person out of the car park at 1am.
A day later and I must have played Hereditary's end credit music, Judy Collins' Both Sides Now, ten times.... I had forgotten how much I like that song.
Anyway, Hereditary is about as far as Toni Collette could possibly come from Muriel's Wedding.
Here she plays progressively more crazed Annie who is in mourning for the death of a mother with whom she found it difficult to connect.
Meanwhile, her sullen, drug-taking son (Alex Wolff), strangely detached daughter (Milly Shapiro) and aloof husband (Gabriel Bryne) try to carry on with life.
Then further tragedy strikes and all hell lets loose.
Ari Aster's movie is odd in several ways, occasionally nodding its head towards comedy despite its horror intentions.
And the longer it progresses the more offbeat it becomes until a conclusion which is bafflingly weird.
On the minus side, it is yet another movie which leans on the premise of a potentially haunted house (or at least one where strange noises freak out the residents).
However, being aware of its panning by critics, I was surprised at how much it engaged me (particularly so late a night).
This could be as much down to the casting as much as the surreal content of the film.
For example, Collette is fab - totally manic in a way that I can't seeing her before.
Reasons to watch: Toni Collette gives an inspirationally insane performance
Reasons to avoid: There is some hackneyed horror
Laughs: Two
Jumps: Two
Vomit: None
Nudity: None
Overall rating: 7/10
Director quote - Ari Aster: "When I was pitching it, I called it a family tragedy that warps into a nightmare, in the same way life can feel like a nightmare when disaster strikes. I think the film is more in debt to domestic melodrama than to horror movies."
The big question - What does the ending mean?
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