There are a lot of so-called “scary movies” that get by on just being kinda creepy, or kinda gross, or kinda full of jump scares. So a movie like Ari Aster’s Hereditary stands out. It’s genuinely creepy, it’s genuinely gross, its jump scares will make you actually jump. It’s a terrifically frightening motion picture on almost every level.
Toni Collette stars as Annie Graham, a woman whose mother has just died and left behind a vast assortment of deep psychological scars. Her family can’t even seem to muster the mental energy necessary to mourn this woman, whose mental illness took such a punishing toll on Annie, so Annie is forced to take her conflicted emotions elsewhere, to support groups, just to admit that she has them.
Source: IGN.com Hereditary Review