12. "Really good UNTIL the very end" In response to In response to 0
First it's kind of a quiet piece on loss, PTSD and a family slowly falling apart at the scenes.
It gets increasingly creepy and builds to an insane and legit terrifying climax.
BUT THEN
They end it all with my least favorite horror trope. It didn't ruin the movie for me, because admittedly, they were setting it up all along. But damn it, I don't find it scary at all. No spoiler, but everyone who's seen it knows what I'm referring to.
The scariest part? It's the same reason why, even though it's not a horror favorite of mine, I have to admit that Event Horizon was for the most part so effectively creepy and disturbing. It's kind of in the title: this idea you are going to become a monster. You were meant to, it was going to happen, you can't fight it and you can't change course...then suddenly you turn into the monster that you were terrified of and running from the entire time. That is really fucking scary to me.
I liked this WAY more than The Witch. The Witch in my mind was just kind of like a dark superhero or super villain origin story. I don't find witches or witchcraft or Satanists particularly scary, so it just seems like people discovering super powers. Which creeps into my big issue with Hereditary, but again, I don't want to spoil it.