This was the part that caused my wife to scream. It was also the part that finally broke me. I was keeping a stiff upper lip until this scene and I immediately became a whimpering baby. Regardless of the story, the last 15 minutes or so of the film are masterful in terms of just a constant onrush of horror built up over the course of 70 minutes or so.
I never said that said that it was a classic. I was just countering your statement that Hereditary is "The best horror movie for people who've never seen a horror movie".
I like horror films with decent music and stories that aren't pretentious. I'm not a fan of films that just go for jump scares so calm down cunt
Toni Collette has always been one of the greats. United States of Tara was the first thing I really saw her give everything in and despite it getting cheesy from time to time is still a role she commanded and did the multiple characters thing just as well as Tatiana Masalany in Orphan Black, just years before.
Again the voice over is to finally hammer home the film's core theme of intergenerational dictatorship. Check my post on the second page.
I hate every time I'm reminded of this sequence. It's one of the reasons I would never, ever want to rewatch the movie. It just filled with me such nauseating, discomforting second-hand guilt. Maybe it's because it reminds me of the times I'd hear my mother's reactions to something I had or hadn't done without having directly faced her impending wrath yet, or the anticipation of such things happening, compounded by the awfulness of the event. It takes me back to a place I never want to go back to.The morning after was the craziest part for me. Just hearing the mom in the background finishing her morning breakfast and getting ready to go work like shes gonna have the most normal day.
This has become one of the most tired tropes for me. In every movie with school scenes, often in horror ones, the themes are spelled out or foreshadowed in a classroom, in an excruciating detailed manner.
Yeah I don't care if was a choice to hammer down the thematic or whatever, the last minute alone prevent it from being a classic to me. I loved the movie but the last seconds pissed me off, I thought until that point the movie didn't take me for a fucking idiot. The book with the highlighted passage was more than enough, I was even a bit iffy on that, but it could have been fine if that was it...
Yeah.
