Day 46 - 02/15/2019

  The "family" has just recently dealt with the death of the grandmother, the mother being the one strongly affected. Meanwhile, the kid's lives go on, Alex Wolff, like any other teenager wants to hang out with his friends, ubt lying to his mother on the whereabouts or about the event itself. Thinking it's a school party, she makes him take his siter where everything goes downhill. 

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  The tension is the horror's biggest prop, that shows how a slow paced story can be envolving taking in consideration the way its crafted. Slower paces have a negative connotation, but when its properly done, like building event a to b to c to cause a climax at d, the climax is even more impactful, and when connecting the dots of abc, the slower pacce is almost like a reward. THe acting from the mother is outstanding, the moments that hit the family are out of this world, bith during the revelation and the death itself. Alex wolf doesnt act as psychotic or flashy as his mother, but his hopelessness acting and overall the beliebabiity not caring of a teenafger brings in the creeps. Even the sister is creepy and the father does his job.

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  The only ngative things I can think of are the deathof the father being highly anticlimactic and the voeral ending diverging way too much from the inital premise. THough Alex's myth is cited before and foreshadowed to a certain amount, it ends up going too far from the whole premise.

  Hereditary is without a doubt one of the best of te genre in modern times. Where horror had been seen under the lens of short movies with cheap thrills and humpscares, Hereditary stands out.