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Author Topic: Hereditary (2018) Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-11-2018 05:16 PM                     After burying her not-particularly-beloved mother, a maker of shockingly personal doll house figures becomes convinced that demonic forces are invading her life, possibly after her children. At the Regal Stadium Theaters, Nanuet, New York. ***** Mama was a spiritualist, you see, and besides raising a seriously screwed-up daughter she and her gang were messing around with spells, incantations and demon raising. But you know how these things go sometimes . . . people go off the page, get suspicious, have the wrong gender children, and then before you know it, heads have to roll. This tedious and overlong picture pushes a lot of the same horror film buttons that Rosemary’s Baby did without having much of interest happening between its meager scares. The lead actress plays her role with a kind of shrieking hysteria that’s hard to watch, and the rest of the cast runs the gamut between unattractive and downright annoying. It’s very slowly paced, and it leads to an ending that does pay off what came before without being especially shocking. Maybe after fifty-plus years of horror film watching I’ve become jaded, but I don’t get all the raving that’s going on over this one, and I can’t recommend anything but a bargain matinee if that.  |  IP: Logged Mike Croaro Master Film Handler Posts: 394 From: Millbrae, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 06-11-2018 07:22 PM                     Although I enjoyed the movie, it was overly long at 140 minutes. This probably hurt thee movie more than anything else.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 06-25-2018 12:13 AM                     It's interesting that I found the part before the super-natural stuff started happening to be much more intriguing than everything that came after it. I guess as long as the stuff doesn't escape the realm of possible reality, your brain keeps on trying to solve the story for you. Every new bit adds a little dimension to that story. But as soon as the super-natural crapola kicks in, it's all over the place and anything can happen from that point on, essentially taking the whole story down the drain with it.  |  IP: Logged

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