
When her mentally ill mother passes away, Annie (Toni Collette), her husband (Gabriel Byrne), son (Alex Wolff), and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural. They each begin to have disturbing, otherworldly experiences linked to the sinister secrets and emotional trauma that have been passed through the generations of their family.... (Full plot summary below)
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When her mentally ill mother passes away, Annie (Toni Collette), her husband (Gabriel Byrne), son (Alex Wolff), and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural. They each begin to have disturbing, otherworldly experiences linked to the sinister secrets and emotional trauma that have been passed through the generations of their family.
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| ScreenCrushBritt HayesHereditary is weighty horror that builds to an impossibly heavy finale, the metaphorical implications of which land on the heart like a ton of bricks. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfA harrowing story of unthinkable family tragedy that veers into the realm of the supernatural, Hereditary takes its place as a new generation's The Exorcist—for some, it will spin heads even more savagely. |
| Riot MaterialKristy PuchkoHereditary is graceful and relentless horror. It's a ballet of menace. Its savage suspense twisted my guts into knots and raised goosebumps so violently they ached. |
| CinéfilozEmmanuel Báez[Toni] Collette is a true force of nature... [Full review in Spanish] |
| Vanguardia (Mexico)Carlos Díaz ReyesA work that deserves attention and needs to be seen more than once. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| Reno News and ReviewBob GrimmWatching this movie, I was all like "Nope...no...you aren't going to do that. Not allowed...No! Stop that! You stop that!!!" I was scared. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonBut the neatest trick that Hereditary manages is the feeling, especially in that beginning and with its ending, that there's some strange force beyond us, perhaps even beyond this film, just waiting and beholding us... |
| Sight and SoundAnton BitelHereditary might be regarded as a psychological or supernatural thriller, an insidious ghost story, a literal cult movie, or Rosemary's Baby (1968) after the infant has come of age. On any view, it is a diabolically assured debut. |
| London Evening StandardMatthew NormanThe results are horrific, emotionally and aesthetically, and launch a corkscrew spin towards hell. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinThis is categorically not a film that will be universally admired – but even as it cleaves to old formulas, it transports your mind to new terrain that feels genuinely and frighteningly hostile, and leaves you with plenty of mental souvenirs by which to remember the trip. |