Agreeing with -t, here.

Oh G-D, that Thing That Happens. But the image that will forever haunt me is the shot of the mom banging her head on the attic door to get to the son. Nope nope nope. I have woken up in the middle of the night with that image in my head and haven't been about to get back to sleep.

I am really glad I didn't see it in the theatre, but at the communal weekly horror night a friend runs, because that way I was able to THOROUGHLY spoil myself for the entire movie. That helped a little bit.

I don't even want to read the synopsis for it OR read Atropa's whitefont.

Hahaha that whitefont scene, yes. Also, the one in which Toni Collett is hanging in the corner of the ceiling in the back of the frame, out of focus, and you don't realize until a beat laterthat she's couching over there suspended like a creepy fucking spider. Accck. During my screening, you could hear the people freaking out in waves as more and more of the audience noticed what was going on.

Honestly though, I wouldn't call this movie scary in a traditional sense. It's just profoundly upsetting and leaves you feeling so uneasy with a huge knot in the chest afterward. It's more about grief than terror, I think. And all the hurtful, devastating things we do to our loved ones in the name of love, things that leave you broken. The Satanism is just a metaphor. Although it's kind of fun to randomly yell out "Hail Paimon!" for no reason. Heh.

I was so unsatisfied at the end of Hereditary. There were great scares, and legitimately creepy an disturbing images, and I totally agree with Vonnie that the main thrust of the movie is the awfulness we can do in the name of love, but on a plot level, I wanted it to be cleverer. I wanted everything to fit together neatly and it didn't.

That said, it genuinely disturbed me. I don't do body horror very well.

So, Dark Phoenix looks like Darth Willow: The Movie, right?

So, Dark Phoenix looks like Darth Willow: The Movie, right?

Considering how much influence Joss drew from the Chris Claremont X-Men that's probably fair.

I was so unsatisfied at the end of Hereditary. There were great scares, and legitimately creepy an disturbing images, and I totally agree with Vonnie that the main thrust of the movie is the awfulness we can do in the name of love, but on a plot level, I wanted it to be cleverer. I wanted everything to fit together neatly and it didn't.

This is me.

And now for something completely different... Booksmart was a blast. Very fun and a strong directorial debut by Olivia Wilde.

I want to see that! And Midsomar, because of my original Wicker Man love.

Of course, I say this as the only person who hasn't seen Endgame yet, but whatever.

I was so unsatisfied at the end of Hereditary

The turn toward the more conventional horror in the last half hour was a bit abrupt. I do think Aster sprinkled plenty of clues about the reveal throughout the movie. It worked for me, but the friends I was with were less enthused about the turn. We all agreed that the family drama and simmering then explosive emotional damage unfolding in the first half of the movie were more effective than the finish.

There were some indelible images in that last half hour of the movie though. Oh boy. Sticky stuff that worms into your brain.

Also, I know it's a horror house and all, but that craft style home they set the movie in had me salivating with real estate envy. So what if there were rotting corpses here and there and people spontaneously bursting into flames! Those gorgeous wooden accents! That amazing staircase! I was surprised to find out later that it wasn't a real house, but the one that built from scratch just for the movie.

So, Dark Phoenix looks like Darth Willow: The Movie, right?

My God, the trailer looks TERRIBLE. I mean, they have good actors on board, and presumably a decent budget, right? Then why do special effect shots look like ass? Not to mention how they give away the entire movie.

There were some indelible images in that last half hour of the movie though. Oh boy. Sticky stuff that worms into your brain.

Oh, absolutely. And just some pure creep moments. But I thought Mother! had those, too, and in the end that movie seemed to make more sense to me, which is not something I thought I would ever say. But Mother! also really stayed with me, in a very disturbing way, for a while.

I also really liked Netflix's The Ritual, which I've heard a lot of people hated, so who knows. But one thing I really liked about it was the character development, which I thought got tossed to the wind at the end of Hereditary.