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Agood horror filmmight not be conventionally good so much as unconventionally horrible.
But theres no denying, much less shaking off, its power.
Itsbrilliantlyhorrible cruel to the point of invasiveness.
Maybe its her way of pretending she can control her own environment.
Theres no normal in the Graham house.
He thinks that Annie is going nuts in her grief, which is right and wrong.
But Aster doesnt (yet) have visual chops that are commensurate with his intelligence and ambition.
He loses the pulse in the films middle section, and maroons us with these suffering people.
you might understand why, though, with a face like Collettes to ponder.
It comes as a relief after nearly an hour of non-supernatural anguish when the genre reasserts itself.
Yes, the climax is hideously gory, but at least we can pin the blame on the devil.
The question lingers sulfurously: Should you seeHereditary?
On one level Im glad I did because it gives me a new touchstone.
Just as the French Extreme filmMartyrsset a new standard for garish sadism,Hereditaryraises the bar on emotional agony.
