The year’s most anticipated horror has a release date (and 100 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes)
As stated previously, this particular writer is a firm believer that A Quiet Place is the best horror in ten years but with the genre undergoing a creative renaissance in recent years, another film has the potential to be talked about for years.
The first trailer for Hereditary got horror fans incredibly excited and since being screened on the festival circuit, Ari Aster’s film has absolutely chilled the bones of everyone that has seen it.
Here’s what the critics have made of it:
Hollywood Reporter: “Hereditary takes the core haunting element of a spirit with a malevolent agenda and runs with it in a seemingly endless series of unexpected directions over two breathless hours of escalating terror that never slackens for a minute.”
NY Post – “This remarkable directorial debut from Ari Aster builds on classical horror tropes – the occult, possession, mental illness- to craft its own unique spin on terror.”
AV Club – “It’s pure emotional terrorism, gripping you with real horror, the unspeakable kind, and then imbuing the supernatural stuff with those feelings. It didn’t play me like a fiddle. It slammed on my insides like a grand piano.”
Plot’s it all about?:Â After Ellen, the grandmother of the Graham family passes away, her daughter’s family begin to uncover a series of mysterious and disturbing secrets about their ancestry. Only learning who their grandmother is, once she has died the further they begin to dig into her past, the more they find themselves attempting to outrun a sinister fate they are believed to have inherited. There are cults, sacrificial pigeons, a daughter who wants to keep reminding her mother that she is going to die.
What’s not to love?
Starring Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette and Ann Dowd, Alex Wolff.
Directed by:Â Ari Aster.
Irish and UK release date:8 June.
Enjoy!
Clip via –Â A24
