I went into watching since it was overhyped, initial build up it's really good, but when first guy go missing you can just stop watching since you already know how it ends. extremely unrealistic that they would not leave after suicides. also the pace is extremely dragging (should be at least half an hour shorter), gore ain't really shocking, more amusing, all in all slightly above average 6/10
there are way better horrors/thrillers in recent years, heck even quite dumb Us was better than this, Coherence and The Invitation are probably most similar and less dragging than this
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Reply by furious_iz
on September 25, 2019 at 10:49 PM
Interesting, I hated Hereditary, thought it was all style no substance. When I saw the trailer for this I thought it looked derivative but could be good, but then saw from the director of Hereditary and that gave me pause.
But then if this is anything like Coherence or The Invitation I will have to give it a go (I loved both of those films). Who am I kidding, I will watch no matter what
Reply by Markoff
on September 26, 2019 at 2:08 AM
it's pretty much (even) dumber copy of The Invitation, although I am not really fan of it too, Coherence is a bit different
I lowered my rating, 6/10 would be above average, but this was really extreme waste of time, form is good, but content is dumb and runtime doesn't justify it, too long to waste my time
Reply by Ask Me Anything
on October 2, 2019 at 12:43 PM
I was actually pretty big fan of Hereditary thanks largely to Toni Collette so I was really looking forward to this and finally saw it the other night.
Visually it's pretty interesting, the gore is nice and the daylight setting is unsettling, but the characters are so awful I didn't care about them at all. The lead girl I've seen in other movies but she's very boring here. The movie is just too passive. Everyone's drugged and seemingly have no survival instinct so they never try to fight back or run, the cult just has them and that's it, and the lead girl basically becomes a turncoat and gets her boyfriend killed after he'd been drugged and raped by the cult.
It was nice to see a movie in the theater that wasn't a prequel/sequel/remake but this should have been better.
Reply by larz9
on November 2, 2019 at 9:58 AM
I agree, this movie was too long for the story being told.
I'm just disappointed that our female protagonist wasn't also sacrificed for being such a headcase. The kind of character so annoying, you want their death to be written into the script.
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on November 23, 2019 at 3:50 PM
That strikes me as an unusual stance on Hereditary. Nothing wrong with not liking it and the film definitely has it's flaws. But this is one of the last horror films I'd consider to suffer from a lack of substance.
The way the film conveyed a family passing on a long, hereditary tradition of emotional distance that continued to cause damage to each generation felt very real, deep and rich with psychological subtext. The way Aster uses cinematic spacing and slow, melancholy silence to make you feel this disconnect is the kind of thing that is usually unheard of in the genre. Especially today.
And I struggle to think of many horror films in which the characters are as deep and layered. The very thing I appreciate about Ari Aster's approach is that his films are character pieces first and horror films second.
It's horror films like Insidious that I would personally see as all style no substance.
Reply by CheekyMonkey
on May 17, 2020 at 3:55 PM
The Invitation is a much better paced movie, more suspense and rhthym to it as well as much better actors...
Midsommar makes up for it a bit with the visuals and the interesting setting and concept... Pugh is very watchable...
But yeah... the movie is a bit too airless sometimes... trying to seem deep... I felt the same about "It Follows" and some of the other arthouse horror movies... I still enjoyed it... Worth checking out
Reply by znexyish
on May 17, 2020 at 7:37 PM
Wow, 2 and a half hours is long for something like this. Havent seen it so I might give it a shot. When it came out it looked like The Wicker Man goes to Sweden.
Reply by Ask Me Anything
on May 17, 2020 at 11:10 PM
Pretty much.
Reply by tmdb53400018
on March 8, 2021 at 2:06 AM
It's more like The Wicker Man meets the Hostel movies in Sweden, with a small bit of Salo thrown in for good measure. I just saw it; I'm having a difficult time getting that nightmare out of my head. I feel you guys as far as it being overlong and also as far as some writerly flaws in the script. But this features an intriguing mix of the familiar and the utterly bizarre that impressed me, at least at first.
Reply by Ask Me Anything
on March 8, 2021 at 10:40 AM
It's not the worst thing ever, but imo horror works better when it's shorter and to the point. My rule of thumb is horror should be as close to 90 minutes as it can get, longer than 100 minutes and it needs to be really good or Silence of the Lambs/Se7en quality, and this wasn't. I would have liked this more had it been 95 minutes.
Reply by tmdb53400018
on March 8, 2021 at 11:41 AM
No, nowhere close. I mean, the Dani character was interestingly drawn out and again, the almost-total daylight setting is a great touch.