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Movie #6 - Hereditary



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After five long weeks of $0.99 cent rentals, Apple finally promoted a really good film. Hereditary is terrifying, bloody, and contains a scene where my husband had to pause the film so that I could walk around the house catching my breath. Yes, it's that scary.

In short, it's a film about tragedy, it's punctuated by loss, and death propels the plot forward, but not in a slasher-everyone's-going-to-die-anyway kind of way, but more so in a scary-it's-this-close-to-real-life kind of way.

The entire picture is shot in a grey-ish tone where even in the daytime scenes you feel askew in some way, that something just isn't right. Also, if Ann Dowd approaches you in any aspect of your life: RUN IN THE OTHER DIRECTION.

Toni Collette plays the mom whose family is under siege, Gabriel Byrne her stalwart husband. Great performances by Alex Wolff (Peter) and Milly Shapiro (Charlie) round out the cast, and overall, despite the fact that I really don't care for scary movies, this one is terrific. Always things that are this-close to being real scare the pants off me, and I do like thoughtful, intelligent scary movies--even if the ones where people are {SPOILER} possessed chill me to my bones.

It's been a long few weeks around our household, with lots of winter, so much cold, and really feeling like it's time for the seasons to change. Mainly, I'm exhausted by the weight of boots, the zipper in my coat acting finicky, and my absolute inability to get to bed at a decent hour. My one day a week working from home is saving my sanity, today being it--so actually enjoying one of these movies, and not feeling like, ugh.... this.... was a good feeling.

Up next. Life Itself. Quite honestly one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life.

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