Film of the Week: Hereditary

If you’ve already decided to see this, stop reading now. If you haven’t, get Hereditary into your weekend. Toni Collete is phenomenal as a woman labouring under the post-mortem influence of her abusive mother, and terrified of how this cruel legacy is manifesting in her own children. Yes, we’re in a proper horror movie, and like all proper horror movies the real subject is trauma rather than splatter. The storytelling will be too deliberate for some, but it’s nice to have a film consciously working in the tradition of classics like Rosemary’s Baby, with an old-school sense of craftsmanship across the board that could make this an awards contender. Oh, and trust us: this is properly, pants-wettingly terrifying. Times & trailer