DVD review: Hereditary
I just couldn’t get into this movie which critics have described as brilliantly disturbing and amazing.
DVD: Hereditary
Reviewed by: Samantha Keogh
Review made possible by: Empire Entertainment
How odd.
I just couldn’t get into this movie which critics have described as brilliantly disturbing and amazing.
I did not agree but perhaps that is because I turned it off after 30 minutes as the plot seemed to be dragging with nothing much happening.
However, some who did watch to the end have said it is one of the best horror movies ever made.
As with everything subjective, you should make up your own mind – a bore or brilliant?
The film centres around artist Annie Graham and her family and looks at their lives after Annie’s mum, Ellen, dies.
The family seems doomed from the start when Annie reveals at her mother’s funeral that the two estranged and then, while secretly attending a support group for the bereaved, opens up about the history of mental illness in her family.
Her mother herself suffered from dementia and Dissociation Identity Disorder (DID); her father had manic depression and died of self-starvation, while her older brother committed suicide while accusing Ellen of ‘trying to put people in him’ in his suicide note.
So, it’s not surprising when her son Peter doesn’t report the accident in which his sister is decapitated while he is driving her to a hospital emergency room after she has an allergic reaction to nuts in something she ate.
Annie then adds to the family’s woes when she participates in a séance with her new friend Joan who suggests Annie hold a séance with her family to contact her daughter.
This is all just the tip of a very disturbing iceberg.
As I mentioned, it wasn’t the film for me but hardcore horror fans may love it so give it a try, if you dare.
