Hey my man.....absolutely the best movie breakdown video I have ever seen. You really just took an incredibly difficult movie to understand and dissected it perfectly. The fact that you were able to not only break this movie down, but also point out some things that were extremely subtle, was what really appealed to me. I really enjoyed watching this movie the first time and I have watched it since one other time, however, now I will have to see it again after watching this breakdown. Outstanding job.
You’re wrong.. that’s not Peters soul leaving his body. That’s Annie’s headless body flying to the tree house. Paimon is a demon and only can possess the living. That’s why once Annie’s brother killed himself Leigh had to move on to Annie’s children because Paimon cannot possess the dead.
The mom screaming when she found out her daughter died is hard for me to watch. Her acting is so good I believed it really happened....not for real, but suspended belief. Was some top notch acting there.
For real. During the shot of the sons face while he's laying there in bed waiting for her to inevitably find her daughters body built so much tension. You hear her grabbing her keys and going out to the car and you're just waiting, waiting, and waiting for her reaction and then you hear it. Chills.
When she was banging her head on the attic door my jaw just dropped. First movie I seen in a long time that made me uncomfortable and afraid...awesome horror film.
This is honestly the only horror movie I just can’t watch alone at night 😂 I have kids and that part where he’s calling her mommy out of sheer panic freaks me out so bad.
She's great in everything tbh. I believe every word and action... that part in the sixth sense when she realizes her son had communicated with her mom is one of her best scenes ever imo.
People concentrate so much on Toni Collette, they seem to foregt about Alex Wolf, the son in the film. He was my favorite actor in the film along with Collette. I think he did a really good job, subtle but powerful. Especially in the scenes in the classroom when he bangs his head on the table, and when his Mum chases him through the house till he regresses, begging his 'mommy' to help him.
@@pegleg2959 yesss him and toni were both just incredible, the scenes where hes scared and even the scene in the car after the accident, he completely sold so many scenes
Lucas Wang true but as someone who firmly has no belief in the super natural, it would take a fuck lot to actually convince me that any sort of paranormal activity is taking place. Bare in mind we see a lot more as the viewers of the film than he does.
This film was well done. I wonder how many people caught on to the realistic depiction of the father figure and how he was suffering in silence while trying to be reasonably considerate of his wife and son.
@Re Up Yes, Peter was portrayed as a real teenager. He wasn't over the top angst. He actually cared about his sister but was going through that teenage phase of wanting his space. Even at the party, he did not mistreat her and no one at the party did either. It was a refreshing take. I think all of the actors did an excellent job.
@Re Up I agree. I was far more struck by Peter's character and that performance than Annie. It was heartbreaking to watch. He deserved some serious kudos for his performance, and it could not have been easy to play this role so convincingly.
I like how they portrayed him as so protective of his son, and him breaking down only when he was alone. Usually the fathers in films are portrayed as dumb, distracted or downright uncaring
I thought you meant and maybe you did or didn't but a reference to THE FATHER as in God trying to be there for them super supportive but is in torment with the way the people and children ( his creations) are falling apart....I know it's not a spot on analogy but it's what sprang to mind 🤷🏼♂️ Also the actor who played peter is renowned for once he gets in to character he does not break it for the duration of the films he does so and other actors and directors testifies to this and then once the jobs done he's back to himself....so I imagine that would be a freaky buzz and takes method acting to a whole other level 😲
When Peter enters the house in the ending scene, you can hear the distant sound of the piano being tipped over. You can also hear a string being plucked. That piano string is what Annie used to cut her own head off.
@@baskhemjingmutlyngdohmarsh925 well when your mental ill unfortunately you tend to gravitate towards those weirdo and especially Dani suffering the loss of here family and here sisters suicide really messed her up. Interesting both scenes from Hereditary when Annie finds cries after her daughter dies and is comforted by her husband reminded me of the beginning of midsummer.
I didn't notice the young classmate of peter's was in the cult, but his teacher was also there. i bet the person making the nutty nut filled chocolate nut cake chock full-o-nuts was in on it too.
i don't think so, how would they know the mom would make him take her to the party? i don't think they were influencing her decisions until after charlie died
@@dalrhoads5687 the cult symbol was on the post that hit Charlie's head. You see it when they're driving to the party. The deer was placed in the road by them.
I think that paimons "light" was supposed to look like the glare coming off of Annie's magnifying glass headset thingy that she uses when shes working on her model projects. Much like she uses it to manipulate her figures, paimon uses it to manipulate the family in the house.
I watched this with a large group, and I saw Annie on the corner of the ceiling almost immediately and started panicking and saying there was something there and nobody believed me. I feel vindicated seeing this now
My husband and i watched this in theater on a whim and ill never be the same, after a heavy warning we watched it with my parents and brother, i think he was about 19 at the time, my husband and i knew about her in the corner but my parents didnt see her at first only my brother and he flipped out big time, instantly hyperventilating and yelling...scared the shit out of me.
Mrs Martin I watched it on a flight. And when that scene came through, I didn’t see her initially, but it was actually because of how that scene was shot, almost an establishing shot, that my eyes began to wonder and I wondered why is it shot like this, and I caught her right before it cut to the next scene and my heart squeezed itself. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy! 😭
Exactly what happened to me! I saw it in theaters with my BF and our friend and although it took me a second, I was the first of us to see her and I had the most visceral reaction. Like horrified wailing and flinging my arms at my bf trying to get him to see! And then when she scurried away they were both like OH SHIT. I just remember thinking, why is the camera hovering on this slow pan for so long and then BOOM instant dread. That feeling will stick with me for a long time...
this was the first horror movie in YEARS that made me scared to sleep with the lights off. Annie seeing her mother in the shadows was perfectly done and was the closest thing to what it actually looks like when you think you see something in the dark. so freaky, sends chills down my spine every time.
Yes 100%. The ghosts and scares were represented in a "realistic" creepy way not in a cheap jumpscare with a loud noise. This movie stands out because of its atmosphere
Same!!! I literally couldn’t sleep without a light on for at least a month. I almost had to leave the theatre after the decapitation scene, the whole movie messed me up so much
Ari Aster is a modern master. This and Midsommar are in an entirely different league than basically anything I've seen in the genre, like EVER. I am 35 years old and this is the first movie since I was probably 8 or 9 that has legitimately affected me the way a horror movie should. It's a masterpiece.
Yessssssss and knowing that these are his two only real movies. I have SO much hope for his potential... Looks like his next movie is gonna be Beau Is Afraid with Joaquin Phoenix, I hope it's as good 🤞🤞
Likewise. While this movie didn't give me nightmares, it did affect me long after I watched it. Watching this video actually sparked that dread again lol
So my younger sister died in a car accident a few years back, I developed “secondary PTSD” and started having flashbacks to the accident I hadn’t been at, my mom whom I was living with went crazy and wound up spending two weeks in an inpatient ward, she cried so much for so many weeks that I started hallucinating sobbing noises when she wasn’t around (including when I spent two nights at a retreat house by myself), being the sibling your grief and pain is totally overshadowed by your parents’ loss (eg. at my wedding dozens of people talked to me about how hard it must be for my mom, not one person asked if it was hard for me), this movie is HANDS DOWN the most accurate depiction of what it all felt like. I cannot say it strongly enough. No amount of “realistic” Oscar-bait drama can compare to how incredibly validated and seen I felt watching Peter watch his mom floating in the air cutting her own head off. thanks for coming to my sibling loss ted talk PS my mom loves the movie too PPS toni is 👑
Sorry to hear that. Hope everything is ok now. Grief is such a weird thing so I’m glad you’ve found something you can related with and at least get some sort of therapy from. Thanks so much for dropping this comment. Much appreciated and you’re right Toni is amazing in it.
Heavy Spoilers Thanks :) Things are certainly less Aster-esque these days, thankfully! I just adore this movie, and digging into it and talking about it, because I feel like it’s really the perfect example of how genre movies can reveal the inner experience in a way that something “realistic” just can’t. Grief is very weird and totally surreal, like the reality of your old life has just completely broken down, so to me it really takes a super surreal and bizarre horror movie to actually express it. Been really enjoying all your videos by the way! Inspiring me to go back and rewatch these movies to see what else I can notice about them :)
erikawithac This comment is so powerful, Thank you for sharing; Honestly. I’m so sorry for your loss and for the pain you and your mother endured (endure). Aster is such a visceral filmmaker, one of our best young artists.
@@eikawithac moving, seriously. Warms my heart to know you can speak of your personal tragedy. I am sorry for your loss but proud you have overcome. Continue to move forward and persevere.
because being naked is not "normal" and something that people usually wanna walk around as. until they're so brainwashed they don't care and desire to be naked . that's a guess
For me it was the naked blonde guy smiling inside the house at Peter, then the Attic scene with the razor wire decapitation...and the final crescendo of the underlying and subliminal dread amassed throughout the movie.
when the creepy ass music gets that spike of horns as we see the effigy of paimon makes a guy feel something you know. like my brain is changed forever
I dont think that Peter dies upon jumping out the window, just was hurt enough to be weakened for posession. Because his uncle Charles killed himself so his dead body could not be posessed by Peimon
EmviloriamE He was definitely possessed, he just may not have died first. Another comment points out that the dark shadow that appears when he died may actually be Annie’s spirit. The shadow looks decapitated, and Annie dies around the same time.
Peter had to still be alive. If Paimon could go into dead bodies then he would have gone into Charles after he comitted suicide, or into the dad who starved himself to death. Annie subconciously tried to save her kids by killing them; so it makes sense that Paimon can't go into dead bodies. Peter was alive, but posessed.
also really little details here, but when Annie was in Joannes apartment and she was explaining to her about her grief and loss, Joanne seems to completely ignore everything she said , and right after just says "how is your relationship with your son?" also when annie is about to leave her apartment and Joanne is giving Annie the things she needs to perform the seance , she says "everyone in your family needs to be there" and mentions Peter first before anyone " *your son*, you, everyone" idk just the little details struck to me when watching the movie, and it just shows how invested the cult is with Peter, bc they know he is their most important victim
I was also struck by Joane's weird little apartment. The door to her apartment was made of glass, which is really weird because a single woman living by herself in an apartment would NEVER have a flimsy glass door as her primary door to her residence. And for someone who had a son and a grandson, that apartment was way, way too small to raise a child in. It almost felt like a made-up apartment, which it was.
This is the first horror film I watched where I had to pause it at certain points to calm down, the whole thing was just so creepy, even when things weren't happening, I just felt this overwhelming sense of anxiety
I felt the same. The only time this happened to me before is when I watched Mulholland Drive for the first time. Now these two are my favourite movies in the world!
That shadow wasn't Peters Soul leaving his body while he's laying in the dirt it was a shadow of his headless mother's corpse floating out of the window
Regarding Annie’s beheading: Since you covered the background noise of cultists moving through the house right before the family returns from the funeral, you might weant to review the scenes after Annie hanging out on the ceiling of Peter’s room. When Peter checks his parents’ bedroom, a piano can beard being slammed shut at 01:49:28. In the subtitles it’s called [loud bang]. When Peter walks down the stairs to the hall, the camera’s focus is initially set to the piano. It is shown broken with the keys’ piano wires sticking out. This is Annie’s work. She uses piano wire to decapitate herself later in the attic. Fun side note: the camera angle and expression on Annie’s face are an homage to THAT scene in Carrie (1976), Ari said in an interview [1]. You say the shadow seen after Peter’s jump out of the attic window is his soul leaving his body. I thought so, too, initially, until someone in the Hereditary subreddit pointed out that it’s actually the shadow of now headless Annie floating towards the tree house. Listen again closely. About eight seconds after the thump of Annie’s decapitated head falling to the wooden floor of the attic can be heard, we see the shadow. Its starting position is the attic window from which Peter jumped straight forward, landing with his feet pointing towards it and his head away from it. It’s not 100 % distinguishable but the shadow has no head. In the ending scene Joan addresses Paimon in Peter’s body as Charlie because this is the name Paimon has become used to as being addressed over the course of thirteen years. Ari said in an interview [2] that Paimon replaced Charlie from the moment she’s born. The thing is, he doesn’t know he’s a King of Hell trapped in the body of a human child. He might have an idea of it, as the bird crashing into the window in Charlie’s class scene suggests, but he’s not fully aware of it. You have to tell him who he is. That’s why Joan does it. We never get to experience the real Charlie. The only possible exception to this is the séance held in the Graham living room. At one point Annie speaks with a child’s voice. The screenplay [3] says on numbered page 78 “But her voice sounds different. It will now remind us - in inflection, in quality - of CHARLIE’S VOICE.”. We don’t know if this is Paimon playing a trick on Annie, Peter, and Steve, or if it’s the voice of the real Charlie whose soul might have been drifting through the æther since it was evicted from her body at birth. Of course this requires the séance to work like an actual séance works. The one in Joan’s home was fake, and the chalk’s movement either done by Paimon or some appliance. [1] th-cam.com/video/SHVehwhUCCM/w-d-xo.html [2] variety.com/2018/film/awards/hereditary-ari-aster-answers-burning-questions-1202841448/ [3] www.scriptslug.com/assets/uploads/scripts/hereditary-2018.pdf All in all, it’s not everything you can discover in Hereditary but a pretty good collection of details easy to miss on your first watch. Great job!
after the 5th time watching it i noticed and thought the same of the shadow not LEAVING his body but moving over it. i dont think he died after the fall, he just got taken over.
@@robi6317 Peter being dead would be a catastrophe for the cult. Decades of planning and work would have gone to waste if he died. The vessel of a dead body that is slowly decaying would be of little use to Paimon.
I never noticed that Peter's friend was one of the bowing cult members at the end. Interesting. Another thing worth noting as I didn't see it mentioned, that aside from the breath that can be seen outside Peter's window, near the end when he awakens and Annie is hiding on the ceiling, the outside sensor light comes on... Done intentionally by the director to hint to a cult member walking around outside, but also to highlight Annie, as it is the subtle light coming through the window into the room that brightens it just enough to make out her silhouette behind Peter.
my theory on the smirking is that paimon always makes Annie see peter look like that, and that when he saw his reflection that's how Annie always saw him, he just didn't know
The primal observations of a person's character gives your mind an image of what you perceive their overall character and purpose to be. Seeing him and his "that face" is like how you see your "friends" when they're snickering behind your back and you catch them without them knowing. The next time you see them, they're acting normal; you're seeing them with that face as you can see their true nature. (Something like that, hard to put into words)
I dunno about rewatchable hahaha. It's one of those horror movies where you wouldn't want to watch again just because of how psychologically scarring it is.
@@papaguapa1361 I dont know. I have a problem with this film. The first half was perfect and the scene of the death was absolutely terrifying. But the second half seemed too confusing and random in some way. From my point of view it started being cheaper and lost all its elegance from that point. I definitely prefer Midsommar than Hereditary. A matter of taste I suppose.
If you are talking about the Director, well this one was his first film. Midsommar was the second one (a reboot made to satisfy the audience while the true fans will wait for the third installment) which we know, it won’t be rushed. Since he already has the capital to take it step by step.
David Clark I don’t say that Midsommar was bad. I’m just saying that compared to Hereditary, it’s not that scary. Hereditary is the most complete horror movie of this era. In every aspect that you look, is a 10/10. I’ve been talking about that movie for more than two years... that’s how good it is.
This is the one and only film that has actually upset me. When Peter’s hand shot up and he made that awful face tears really came to my eyes, and I’ve never experienced that before. The whole third act sent shivers through my body and worst of all... we have vaulted ceilings. So naturally, I slept with the lights on to make sure that no one was up perched in the corners.
@@laurabadcredit so i have a deathly fear of what i cal Creepy Crawlers which is anthing evil that starts crawling up walls. i was watching this movie with my boyfriend and in this scene i was so focused on the son and thinking wow they are holding the camera on him for a while and my boyfriend says very slowly....shes in the corner..When i looked i legit screamed bloddy murder and started crying still scares me thinking about it
@@lmsabatino oh noooo!! just reading your experience gave me chills all over again. It's the slowly unsettling scenes like this that are truly, deeply creepy. It's so much better than cheap jump scares.
Can you imagine, years later, after all that trouble getting Paimon onto Earth and possessing a male body, all he does is sit around watching Netflix and demanding his cult members to serve him snacks... I doubt demons ever deliver on promises no matter how convincing
After Peter jumps out of the window you can hear the mums head hitting the floor, also I always thought that the shadow that you see afterwards was the mum floating out of the window not his soul
@@someguy3494 midsommar is just a bunch of cult wackos doing gore stuff and besides the British couple, stupid foreigners who at least should've try to escape after watching a couple of suicides.
Hereditary did, but Midsommar just made me angry. Rather than illicit fear or dread, I just got a murder boner thinking about some form of unyielding revenge falling upon the cult. Hereditary conversely really messed me up. For me, Midsommar peaked at the beginning. The suicide scene was more shocking than anything else in the film, and the part where the sister has a bad trip and sees her dead sister in the mirror was also the scariest.
I would love to watch this kind of movie with everyone here from the comment section! Imagine the conversation we'd have after the movie! You guys are so smart and detail-oriented! I love it!
I noticed in the opening scene when the dad walks into Peter's room, there is a rack on his bedroom wall with three hats on it. Three hats for three heads 😳
It’s interesting how at the end Peter/Charlie/Paimon seems lost rather than evil and triumphant. Also when Annie channeled someone, seemingly Charlie/Paimon, the spirit seemed lost. Charlie seemed lost when she was alive. So it’s as if the demon himself is a victim of the cult, that would be original compared to the usual possession movies where the demon is in control.
@Sam Wayne Christianity and Judaism have practised negative syncretism, meaning they integrated other religions’ gods but as demons to shame said religions and force them into theirs. So many of these demons are ancient gods, and Paimon may have been a middle-eastern goddess. Gods or demons, they are generally depicted with human feelings, isn’t it said that Yawhe loves, or that Satan is jealous? Anyway, it’s not guaranteed that what happened falls into a Christian framework. This may be a demon, a god, a mind from another dimension, who knows.
Honestly, Peimon is probably done with this shit and tired of having to plan so many elaborate deaths just so he can possess someone lol! In all seriousness, it makes sense and it would be more realistic. He doesn’t want to possess anyone, he’s just being forced to and his mentality is more of “why the fuck am I even here”? Which would be so funny as well, and so in tune with the ridiculousness of cults.
I just remembered that at the Grandma's funeral Annie mentions how more people that showed up than she expected, or something like that. So I'm sure there are plenty of cult members there, just like the creepy smile guy.
I've been a horror aficionado for almost twenty years now. I really thought I was incapable of being scared anymore, but I'm not going to lie, when I spotted Toni Collette in the corner of the room toward the end, I felt a fear I hadn't felt since my childhood. The creepy naked dude shortly after was almost as bad. Hats off to Ari Aster. I know this film is pretty widely appreciated, but I truly think it's the scariest film of the century so far.
That was my scariest moment too. It's interesting and cool that these figures don't harm anyone. They're just seen at the side of the frame. Look away or pay too close attention to the center and you'll miss them. It's like Hitchcock's bomb under the table. When the bomb goes off that's scary and then the moment's gone. Hitchcock and Aster build suspense and dread as we see the figures and then worry about what the heck they're doing there. It's also against what John Carpenter invented: person is looking into the fridge. He closes the door and there suddenly is Michael or Jason or whoever. Sure it's startling for a moment but there's really no sense of anticipation. He just pops up at really inconvenient times.
The shots of Annie up against the wall and scurrying down are sooo scary. I literally missed it when I saw it in the theatre. I rented it after and freaked out when I saw it. I was shocked I missed it. When she is cutting her head off, her eyes - her terrified glazed expression and the SOUND of sawing. Then off camera, the THUD of her head falling...sheer terror. Brilliant film. I was surprised and delighted when I was completely creeped out by scenes in The Witch. I previously thought ehhh nothing scares me anymore at age 58. Well...yes this film scared the sh*t out of me and I loved it. Screwed up family, psychological terror, anger, resentment and guilt, grief...and a demon. BONUS FOR BEHEADINGS. Great combo!!
I thought maybe the smile was the face that his mother was referring to. That maybe he thinks his face is normal, but he's actually grinning like an asshole and and that is why his mother snapped on him. He didn't even realize he was doing it. That's how I saw it anyway...
Nah, he's always expressionless, his mother is bothered that it doesn't affect him that his sister died because of him but he's affected so badly he's having nightmares etc. His father would also object if he were smiling continuously, No one alive in the family smiles during the runtime.
@@harshivpatel6238 no, he means after Peter saw his reflection smiling in the mirror, maybe the mother also see the same delusion, as she consumed with toxic herb, and possibly possessed. She snapped at him that moment she see the smiling face
@@remyle8089 we see a fair bit from mum's perspective, she didn't eat. She didn't hollucimate him smile, rather that she'd been angry that he doesn't seem to care for his guilt. He was suppressing his guilt by weed,
Just watched this alone, at night, with headphones up loud. I'm a 37-year-old man and I was afraid to get up and go to the bathroom...because ghosts. Awesome movie
It's not the ghosts you have to worry about... It's the 75 cultists hidden strategically around your house so they're always just out of sight when you look around for them. 😂
Guaranteed you have a ginger goatee, balding, glasses, play Nintendo switch/video games and call yourself your dogs ‘dad’ instead of owner. Millennials are acc so pathetic. Gen Z proved you’re all a bunch of wet gmps anyway.
The first film ive ever seen that felt like pure evil, like i legit shouldn't be watching this. Never felt so uncomfortable in my life during a movie, i had to go pray after the ending.
Hereditary is a truly terrifying, psychological, dark, and UNIQUE horror film. That’s what I love about it…the storyline is very unusual and refreshing, and it explores the real life horrors of cults and the dark side of secrecy
The part that really stuck with me in this movie was when Charlie died. I have a younger sister as well so my brain subconsciously put thought about being in Peter’s position. I got nauseous and sick from that stress. Great film
I have recommended this movie to friends who have ridiculed it! I just don’t understand what movie they watched because I agree that this is amongst the most affecting horror movies of all time - certainly left an impact on me. I think the final scenes are made quite horrifying when you focus on the fact that it is the child’s mother who is hunting him down - his cry for his ‘mommy’ is wrenching if you are really thinking about it.
I've been saying this! I remember growing up, watching documentaries about the impact that The Exorcist had on people at the time- people fainting, throwing up, needing to go to hospital, etc.... Watching this in the theaters gave me that PHYSICAL reaction that I have never had before. I've had something close to it when I saw The Exorcist as a child. Even The Conjuring scared me a lot, but HEREDITARY actually gave me a slight panic, anxiety moment! I think it started during the Dinner Argument scene...it struck a nerve in me. It felt so REAL. I have never seen an argument displayed in a movie like the ones I've had in my life. Then as the movie progressed, I was feeling the sounds/low frequencies and I didn't know what was happening. It kicked into high-gear during the final showdown scenes in the house, my heart was racing so fast, my arm was losing sensation, I wanted to GTFO of the showing, but I couldn't. It was wild to feel that.
@@concertino58 I havent seen this movie yet, but I did see The Exorcist in a theater with my mom. It is still the scariest movie ever and there is one scene that I still wont watch today. That scene where the priest is talking about his mom. We see her exiting a subway, then this creepy face blinks on screen for a split second! I'll never forget laughing and joking with my bro and mom for the first parts, but when shit started happening, I 'watched' with my face covered the rest of the movie!
I have never wanted to walk out of a film at the cinema so much as this one...not because I thought it wasn't any good but because I found it such an uncomfortable watch. Creepy creepy creepy. I kept thinking about it for days after. I don't think I would be able to rewatch it. To have such a strong reaction to it must make it a great movie I guess!!!
That part where you mention Peter's soul leaving his body. Isn't the shadow his mother flying off toward the treehouse? Notice that there isn't a head on the shadow
@@heavyspoilers you definitely are really smart and notice a lot of things I've never noticed myself before. I love you videos, keep doing an awesome job
yesssss, great catch...the “departing soul” scene always bugged me but i guess not enough to figure out what was actually happening...i couldn’t wrap my head around why a dark, ominous smog cloud represented Peter’s soul whilst Paimon’s soul was a bright white light...or why we had to be physically shown Peter’s soul floating away in the first place...now the scene finally makes sense to me so thanks for the clarification! P. S. the final scene kinda bugs me, too!...why was Paimon clicking his tongue like Charlie?...and why the confused stare throughout?...he didn’t even flash a smirk during the final seconds...instead he acted more like Charlie than Paimon and exhibited no self-awareness throughout that scene 🤔
Jason Randall i read somewhere else that Charlie was actually Paimon. Grandma put the demon inside of Charlie’s body so when she died, he was released. Charlie never actually existed, her body was just a host.
@@heavyspoilers no you were right as the light that we see throughout the film finally stays on Peters back (around his heart area) and looks as if it went in or was absorbed. the shadow of course though will have been the mother
One of the scariest movies I've ever seen! The scene where Annie is banging her head against the attic door only to cut her own head off hovering above Peter, stills gives me chills.
ill never get over the fact that the parents were so worried about the girl over her nut allergy but sent her with her brother and neither had an Epipen
Hereditary set a new precedent for horror movies -- which is good, and bad, as now I have come to expect such level of detail in every new horror movie I watch... and let down each time.
In the table argument scene, you can see that behind Peter something is constantly moving, like watching them from behind the table, and then, you can see, that when Anny sits, she makes a noise,but it wasn't she. It was the books behind Peter (you could see red and green items moving), that fell down and made that noise
@@dannielastname5870 It's right near chimney, on his left almost on the level of his eyes. You can see that it's constantly moving left and right, through the entire moment of argument.
I unfortunately think that's Toni's reflection in the glass of the cabinets to Peter's left. I see the movement you're mentioning but it's all pretty matched up with her dialogue/ suggested movement. The books that fall are also just her... sitting down. Not trying to be a buzzkill, this film has amazing hidden treats. Just don't think this one is one of those.
The last 15 minutes of this movie give you a visceral feeling of existential dread. Truly magnificent. That last scene where Peter is walking around the house in the dark and there’s zero music, basically no other noise and just his pure terror was so unnerving. I can’t remember the last time I felt that uncomfortable in a horror movie. Wild. So well done.
It has been more than a year since I watched this movie, and I am astounded by how I missed a couple of details such as the three heads that Paimon carries, the hand and staff connection, the "stupid face on your face", those footsteps, and that smoking cultist. This movie is really good. Great analysis! I was also astonished how I missed one of Peter's friends in the final scene.
One thing I caught the last viewing was the dad making the clicking noise with his tongue while he was on fire 🔥 it’s very quiet so you have to pay close attention. Oh and some teens at the party were watching black and white Guillotine footage on a laptop foreshadowing Charlie’s decapitation
I love horror movies but it's so hard to find good ones. After watching hereditary and midsommar, I can say with certainty that my faith in the horror genre has been restored and Ari Aster is an absolute ARTIST. I cannot wait to see his next masterpiece
A little late but I found midsommar to be bland for me.I was intensely hyped when I heard it was the same company but I didn’t find it scary just oddly disturbing.I’m still unsure why some people enjoy it a lot.
I remember watching this movie in 4K HDR and it being a bit too clear, I could see every corner so when the mom is just floating there in the corner I shat my pants, I'd seen the movie before but never noticed that...noice
@@heavyspoilers now that's the thing, I'm guessing that's not how it was supposed to be seen, so...is that bad for movies?🤔🤔I don't think it ruins the experience but there's purists 😂
My mom wrote a paper about Hereditary for English or something like that. As a result, she ended up memorizing the whole dinner scene. Sometimes, she just walks up to me and recites it word-for-word.
That's what happened to me. When I first watched the movie, I wasn't paying much attention because I was working on an art assignment. I went back and watched videos similar to this one, learning each little detail. When I went to bed that night, I couldn't sleep at all, I kept looking at my bedroom ceiling, waiting for Annie to be clinging to one of the corners in my room.
When Annie remakes the scene of Charles death, her husband sees it. She has the car, Charlie sticking out, her head on the road, and peter in the front. But at one point they show the scene again and Charlie’s head is gone. (This might not make sense when I say it cuz I’m really bad at explaining but if your rewatch those parts you might notice it)
I remember the shot showing the head gone but don't remember if it's before or after Annie has her meltdown where she destroys several of her models. If it's after then the head obviously fell off during Annie's fit and the shot serves as a visual metophor and foreshadowing of the fact the Cult has taken Charlie's head (which we later see on the dummy). If it's before then I guess maybe some of the cultists took it for some reason.
Good catch with the footsteps before they return from the funeral. If the sound is way up during the opening shot, you can here hooves (i.e. Paimon) stepping towards Peter's bedroom.
The #1 thing to remember is that Charlie is never ACTUALLY Charlie, Charlie is Paimon. And Peter didn't necessarily die from the fall at the end. You wouldn't die from a fall that high landing in dirt unless you landed directly on your head.
you can die from a 6ft fall if you land right. Peter very likely hit his head on something when he fell or broke his neck. I think that he would have had to have been alive for paiman to take control though just like he did Annie and Charlie
I agree, the director has actually said that there never was a Charlie, only Paimon and the reason she was always so uncomfortable was because she (or he) was born in a female body, instead of a male one. That makes it even creepier.
@@helenkapetis8869 He didn't actually say that there was never a Charlie, he said that Charlie was displaced by Paimon at birth, so that would actually imply Charlie exists within the same body but Paimon is the main controlling consciousness. If there never was a Charlie there would probably be no need for the Grandmother to breast feed and drug the toddler with the herbs.
I felt bad when he was eating lunch by himself. It was clear that he had friends but by that time in the movie they probably ditched him because of how out of how traumatized and out of touch he seemed
This movie is so fucking good. Like, seriously, I think it is on the same level as horror classics like The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and The Shining. Ari Aster made a huge impact on me as a fan of movies and I'm eager to see his next work
A small detail I noticed, Charlies room in the house is shaped just like the treehouse with the sky light. But in the house it's usually depicted in a cold blue tone where as the treehouse has the red light radiated from the heaters, Could be a death and life thing there idk
At 7:00 when we see the scene with the blue paint being knocked over. I actually hadn't noticed that her hand never actually touched the bottle, because it is done so subtle, and our eyes make us believe Annie did it, much in the same way that she herself, believes that she did it. This is why Ari Aster is such a great filmmaker. Little details like this, show that he does not care one bit, rather we immediately see things for ourselves, or not. He is more interested in his world being real, believable, and weighted, and it gives us something to experience on our own time, with our own mind set and senses. It's bold, and shows incredibly control, and consideration for our intelligence. Lesser films and filmmakers would have used close ups and music ques and anything else, to make sure we didn't leave the scene until we all knew, together, unmistakably, that an invisible force tipped over the bottle.
i actually noticed two hidden details after watching this movie yesterday with my friend! when annie is working on a miniature (sorry, i dont remember which) you can see in the window behind her that there are two hands pressed on the glass. another one is when the girl peter has a crush on leads him to the room to smoke weed, the two boys that are already in there are watching a video of someone's head being chopped off via guillotine. that last one is the one that really made me go "oh shit, theyre ALL in on it huh" since it was my second watching haha
another cool detail was when Peter was entering the room upstairs at the party, the people in the room were watching someone being beheaded on a guillotine on an iPad, which is foreshadowing Charlie’s beheading later on
Hereditary HAS to be my favourite modern day horror film. The director's decision to avoid jump scares and shock-jock moments, and, instead, rely on atmosphere and precision subtleties really made this movie the eerie and horrific story it was, and such a unique watching experience. I also very much enjoy being able to pick up on hints and subtleties I missed during my first viewing, which makes this movie perfect for multiple viewings... Yet at the same time I feel it would have had an even greater impact on me had I noticed all the small details the first time around. I can only imagine how much more this movie would have haunted and truly horrified me. To be honest, I don't think people can truly appreciate the movie without an understanding of Paimon and how 'he' was implented all throughout the plot, and I think anyone who claims to have disliked it should rewatch it, first after learning about the clues and the hidden gems that make the movie whole.
10:56 that's definitely the shadow of Annie's headless body leaving the attic and levitating towards the tree house. The next shot in the actual movie shows that. That being said, incredible movie!
After Annie wakes up from the nightmare and checks on Peter, he says that he had a nightmare too. Also the road with the engraved telephone pole was the only road leading to the family’s house. I remember that throughout the movie, my initial theory (one of them anyway) was that Charlie’s ghost was trying to get revenge on Peter. I though this bc of the scenes where Peter slammed his head into the desk like Charlie’s head slammed into the telephone pole, and when Peter started choking like when Charlie’s throat closed up bc of her allergies.
* peter sustains a nose injury & gets thrown off * Cult: "we've corrected your female body and placed you into a healthy boy host" Paimon: " you call this healthy" Cult: "well you did it to yourself" Paimon "touché"
I remember seeing this in theatres, then invited my friends along for my second watch since they hadn't seen it yet. They laughed throughout the entire thing and made fun of me for liking it. They aren't my friends anymore :^)
This is horror on a whole other level, cerebral, intellectual. I find that people who are quick to dismiss it or think it's stupid just don't get it, it's beyond their comprehensive capabilities. I feel badly for them for not seeing just how brilliant Hereditary is. It's an absolute masterpiece.
@@Masky5150 i have had similar experiences with these kinds of people. they either downright don't get it, as you mentioned, or are just way too weak minded for such a movie so they try to downplay it and/or make it funny etc. because they just couldn't take it otherwise. Granted, i did almost shit my pants too at the end but some of those people would get PTSD after watching this alone
Thank you so much for this video! I was trying to make sense of the miniatures, and when you said that they represent the family's inability to control their lives from the beginning and being the cult's puppets - it makes sense!
I absolutely loved both Hereditary and Midsommar. I love how director Ari Aster will put these details into his films without hitting you over the head to draw your attention to them.
Completely agree on the “dollhouse aesthetic”... I saw the reflective light as Toni collettes monocle looking in and watching them, maybe even toying with them 🤷♂️ one of the best recent horrors 🙌
This movie is so haunting and amazing with the subtle details. I remember watching this in a theatre and finally realizing the mother on the ceiling in THAT scene and legit saying “HOLY SHIT” in the middle of a quiet theatre
@Heavy Spoilers Nope, I still think this movie was kind of boring. The only good thing was the little girl. I was so, sooooo bored with the fake-Light Yagami scenes. I couldn´t even begin to put it into words. I wish the movie would´ve given more scenes to the little girl. And I did notice most of these things in my first watch.
There’s a reason this movie is so well regarded. I can’t name another modern horror that does as good a job. The acting was insanely good, the depiction of grief was so accurate, it didn’t have cheap jump scares but actually made you terrified at the same time, aw man I really love this movie.
Its like the ending of Carrie when the mother is hiding perfectly still before confronting her, it's unnerving because you aren't sure if its actually there at first.
It wasn't the shadow of his soul leaving his body, it was the shadow of Annie's decapitated body floating out the window and over to the treehouse, which we see later. Peter wasn't dead, just sufficiently traumatized and hurt to become vulnerable enough for possession. Annie became vulnerable enough after the trauma of seeing Steve die. And we know Charles escaped possession by committing suicide so Peter couldn't be completely dead.
5:55 brilliant, subtle moment! Any other movie/director would've gone for a cheap jump-scare... The way the camera held turned this into an "am I really seeing this?" moment... Made it creepier.
The end ceremony in the tree house was so strange for me because it is a place of youthful play and adventure and the innocence of youth. So watching something so hideous and vile in a wooden confined space was hard to describe. It added to the horror being played out before my eyes and made it feel intimate and clean all at the same time and also a very organic and natural feeling accompanied by something so dark and evil was an amazing touch. Bohemian Grove gives that sense a bit with the Forrest and owl’s etc
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Hey my man.....absolutely the best movie breakdown video I have ever seen. You really just took an incredibly difficult movie to understand and dissected it perfectly. The fact that you were able to not only break this movie down, but also point out some things that were extremely subtle, was what really appealed to me. I really enjoyed watching this movie the first time and I have watched it since one other time, however, now I will have to see it again after watching this breakdown. Outstanding job.
Ah thank you that really means a lot. Take care of yourself and thanks again for the kind words
You’re wrong.. that’s not Peters soul leaving his body. That’s Annie’s headless body flying to the tree house. Paimon is a demon and only can possess the living. That’s why once Annie’s brother killed himself Leigh had to move on to Annie’s children because Paimon cannot possess the dead.
this was one of the creepiest movies I have ever seen amazing break down
Man! You nailed all the details! Thanks!!
The mom screaming when she found out her daughter died is hard for me to watch. Her acting is so good I believed it really happened....not for real, but suspended belief. Was some top notch acting there.
That scene made me feel more disturbed than many other horror movie scenes.
Toni Colettes acting was phenomenal
The screaming scene and the dinner scene were more disturbing to me than any amount of gore.
toni went so hard
For real. During the shot of the sons face while he's laying there in bed waiting for her to inevitably find her daughters body built so much tension. You hear her grabbing her keys and going out to the car and you're just waiting, waiting, and waiting for her reaction and then you hear it. Chills.
When she was banging her head on the attic door my jaw just dropped. First movie I seen in a long time that made me uncomfortable and afraid...awesome horror film.
I was shocked at how she move that fast tho 😂
Nah that's the part when the movie stopped being scary and became silly.
@@ToveriJuri honestlyyy
same
This is honestly the only horror movie I just can’t watch alone at night 😂 I have kids and that part where he’s calling her mommy out of sheer panic freaks me out so bad.
I still believe Toni Collette deserved an Oscar for her role in this movie. She was absolutely phenomenal.
Literally
Agreed.
She's great in everything tbh. I believe every word and action... that part in the sixth sense when she realizes her son had communicated with her mom is one of her best scenes ever imo.
People concentrate so much on Toni Collette, they seem to foregt about Alex Wolf, the son in the film. He was my favorite actor in the film along with Collette. I think he did a really good job, subtle but powerful. Especially in the scenes in the classroom when he bangs his head on the table, and when his Mum chases him through the house till he regresses, begging his 'mommy' to help him.
@@pegleg2959 yesss him and toni were both just incredible, the scenes where hes scared and even the scene in the car after the accident, he completely sold so many scenes
I felt bad for the dad he was super chill and strong while everyone was crazy
he was the only one not blood-related
Lucas Wang true but as someone who firmly has no belief in the super natural, it would take a fuck lot to actually convince me that any sort of paranormal activity is taking place. Bare in mind we see a lot more as the viewers of the film than he does.
I hate when characters play the skeptic
Casting was spot-on for this movie whereas Midsommer it was terrible.
eh i felt like he was way 2 nice n passive at moments especially towards the end that made me question whether he was a pansy or not lmao
This film was well done. I wonder how many people caught on to the realistic depiction of the father figure and how he was suffering in silence while trying to be reasonably considerate of his wife and son.
@Re Up Yes, Peter was portrayed as a real teenager. He wasn't over the top angst. He actually cared about his sister but was going through that teenage phase of wanting his space. Even at the party, he did not mistreat her and no one at the party did either. It was a refreshing take. I think all of the actors did an excellent job.
@Re Up I agree. I was far more struck by Peter's character and that performance than Annie. It was heartbreaking to watch. He deserved some serious kudos for his performance, and it could not have been easy to play this role so convincingly.
I like how they portrayed him as so protective of his son, and him breaking down only when he was alone. Usually the fathers in films are portrayed as dumb, distracted or downright uncaring
I thought you meant and maybe you did or didn't but a reference to THE FATHER as in God trying to be there for them super supportive but is in torment with the way the people and children ( his creations) are falling apart....I know it's not a spot on analogy but it's what sprang to mind 🤷🏼♂️
Also the actor who played peter is renowned for once he gets in to character he does not break it for the duration of the films he does so and other actors and directors testifies to this and then once the jobs done he's back to himself....so I imagine that would be a freaky buzz and takes method acting to a whole other level 😲
Yes he was probably the best written most realistic character in the movie.
When Peter enters the house in the ending scene, you can hear the distant sound of the piano being tipped over. You can also hear a string being plucked.
That piano string is what Annie used to cut her own head off.
Wow, I never even caught that one!
bloody hell
Ok I just shat my pants
Brilliant,I never heard that.Thanks 👍
Good catch
this movie is uncomfortable to watch, in a good way
Have you seen the cliff scene in midsommer?
nash sanadiki yeah I have,
weird since both Hereditary and Midsommar are directed by the same guy
@@baskhemjingmutlyngdohmarsh925 I'm hoping the Taliban aren't watching that and say "that saves time instead of stoning"
nash sanadiki I just hope ordinary people don't start creating or joining messed-up cults in general 😌
@@baskhemjingmutlyngdohmarsh925 well when your mental ill unfortunately you tend to gravitate towards those weirdo and especially Dani suffering the loss of here family and here sisters suicide really messed her up. Interesting both scenes from Hereditary when Annie finds cries after her daughter dies and is comforted by her husband reminded me of the beginning of midsummer.
Cult puts Paimon into girls body
Paimon: You had ONE job!
Loooooool
LOL 😂 😂😂
you win the internet
Getting sharks with a laser blaster on their heads?
@@_koschwarz LOL good ref!
I didn't notice the young classmate of peter's was in the cult, but his teacher was also there. i bet the person making the nutty nut filled chocolate nut cake chock full-o-nuts was in on it too.
Shit never noticed that.
i bet too i mean everything was organized by the cult it wasn’t just chance
Aww nuts...that’s a good point.
i don't think so, how would they know the mom would make him take her to the party? i don't think they were influencing her decisions until after charlie died
@@dalrhoads5687 the cult symbol was on the post that hit Charlie's head. You see it when they're driving to the party. The deer was placed in the road by them.
I think that paimons "light" was supposed to look like the glare coming off of Annie's magnifying glass headset thingy that she uses when shes working on her model projects. Much like she uses it to manipulate her figures, paimon uses it to manipulate the family in the house.
That just blew my mind :D
Oof that’s FANTASTIC 😲
woahhhhh... amazing find! Man you know its a good movie when you can keep finding more and more details each time you watch it.
Just like how Annie closely watched/ controlled the figures, Paimon did the same to the family. Brilliant!
Even if that wasn’t the intent I love the idea, nicely done
I watched this with a large group, and I saw Annie on the corner of the ceiling almost immediately and started panicking and saying there was something there and nobody believed me. I feel vindicated seeing this now
Yeah they hid it massively, so creepy
My husband and i watched this in theater on a whim and ill never be the same, after a heavy warning we watched it with my parents and brother, i think he was about 19 at the time, my husband and i knew about her in the corner but my parents didnt see her at first only my brother and he flipped out big time, instantly hyperventilating and yelling...scared the shit out of me.
Mrs Martin I watched it on a flight. And when that scene came through, I didn’t see her initially, but it was actually because of how that scene was shot, almost an establishing shot, that my eyes began to wonder and I wondered why is it shot like this, and I caught her right before it cut to the next scene and my heart squeezed itself. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy! 😭
@@Chamiliona21 what's the timestamp?
Exactly what happened to me! I saw it in theaters with my BF and our friend and although it took me a second, I was the first of us to see her and I had the most visceral reaction. Like horrified wailing and flinging my arms at my bf trying to get him to see! And then when she scurried away they were both like OH SHIT. I just remember thinking, why is the camera hovering on this slow pan for so long and then BOOM instant dread. That feeling will stick with me for a long time...
Annie banging her head on the attic door echoes the rhythm of the knife chopping walnuts at the party.
also her pose when she cried after charlie's death and the position of her corpse at the end of the movie are similar
As well as when she was banging on Joan's door.
That look on her face when she decapitated herself..
I can never forget that.
Great point.
this was the first horror movie in YEARS that made me scared to sleep with the lights off. Annie seeing her mother in the shadows was perfectly done and was the closest thing to what it actually looks like when you think you see something in the dark. so freaky, sends chills down my spine every time.
Yes 100%. The ghosts and scares were represented in a "realistic" creepy way not in a cheap jumpscare with a loud noise. This movie stands out because of its atmosphere
yep
Same!!! I literally couldn’t sleep without a light on for at least a month. I almost had to leave the theatre after the decapitation scene, the whole movie messed me up so much
That scene made me so uncomfortable in the theater. 😖 that and the scene where mom is banging her head on the attic door
Ryan L yes this was terribly creepy the banging part
This film will become a cult classic. Toni Collette is PHENOMENAL & truly doesn’t get the recognition she deserves.
Agreed. She's absolutely brilliant. 💜
Wobbles and Bean yes!!
She should have gotten an Oscar nomination for this role. She was absolutely amazing.
ratt57 She REALLY was!
Agreed. Her performance deserves an award.
Ari Aster is a modern master. This and Midsommar are in an entirely different league than basically anything I've seen in the genre, like EVER. I am 35 years old and this is the first movie since I was probably 8 or 9 that has legitimately affected me the way a horror movie should. It's a masterpiece.
Yessssssss and knowing that these are his two only real movies. I have SO much hope for his potential... Looks like his next movie is gonna be Beau Is Afraid with Joaquin Phoenix, I hope it's as good 🤞🤞
@@magickaldust1213 Oh yesss I'm superrrrr pumped about it, I can't wait!
I wrote basically the same comment except I'm 37. I was afraid to get up and use the bathroom. Such a good movie.
Likewise. While this movie didn't give me nightmares, it did affect me long after I watched it. Watching this video actually sparked that dread again lol
Midsommer wasnt scary
So my younger sister died in a car accident a few years back, I developed “secondary PTSD” and started having flashbacks to the accident I hadn’t been at, my mom whom I was living with went crazy and wound up spending two weeks in an inpatient ward, she cried so much for so many weeks that I started hallucinating sobbing noises when she wasn’t around (including when I spent two nights at a retreat house by myself), being the sibling your grief and pain is totally overshadowed by your parents’ loss (eg. at my wedding dozens of people talked to me about how hard it must be for my mom, not one person asked if it was hard for me), this movie is HANDS DOWN the most accurate depiction of what it all felt like. I cannot say it strongly enough. No amount of “realistic” Oscar-bait drama can compare to how incredibly validated and seen I felt watching Peter watch his mom floating in the air cutting her own head off.
thanks for coming to my sibling loss ted talk
PS my mom loves the movie too
PPS toni is 👑
Sorry to hear that. Hope everything is ok now. Grief is such a weird thing so I’m glad you’ve found something you can related with and at least get some sort of therapy from. Thanks so much for dropping this comment. Much appreciated and you’re right Toni is amazing in it.
Heavy Spoilers Thanks :) Things are certainly less Aster-esque these days, thankfully! I just adore this movie, and digging into it and talking about it, because I feel like it’s really the perfect example of how genre movies can reveal the inner experience in a way that something “realistic” just can’t. Grief is very weird and totally surreal, like the reality of your old life has just completely broken down, so to me it really takes a super surreal and bizarre horror movie to actually express it.
Been really enjoying all your videos by the way! Inspiring me to go back and rewatch these movies to see what else I can notice about them :)
erikawithac This comment is so powerful, Thank you for sharing; Honestly. I’m so sorry for your loss and for the pain you and your mother endured (endure). Aster is such a visceral filmmaker, one of our best young artists.
@@eikawithac moving, seriously.
Warms my heart to know you can speak of your personal tragedy. I am sorry for your loss but proud you have overcome.
Continue to move forward and persevere.
Hugs 😃
Why do creepy cult members get 100% creepier when they're naked?!😳
With less than desirable bodies lol
because being naked is not "normal" and something that people usually wanna walk around as. until they're so brainwashed they don't care and desire to be naked . that's a guess
Cause that’s what real cultists doo. They sacrifice people and fuck eachother.
they don't. they just get 100% sexier!! 😏
That scene reminded me of all the naked tenants in Rosemary's Baby.
That last 14 minutes is the most terrified I had ever been from a film.
For me it was the naked blonde guy smiling inside the house at Peter, then the Attic scene with the razor wire decapitation...and the final crescendo of the underlying and subliminal dread amassed throughout the movie.
definitely going to stay with me a while. I love slow burns
when the creepy ass music gets that spike of horns as we see the effigy of paimon
makes a guy feel something you know. like my brain is changed forever
@@nighthawkviper6791 I actaully thought her with the wire in the attactic was funny cause she was just looking at him lmaoo
I dont think that Peter dies upon jumping out the window, just was hurt enough to be weakened for posession. Because his uncle Charles killed himself so his dead body could not be posessed by Peimon
Peter died and Charlie possessed him because when Peter was about to go up the tree house, he began doing Charlie's tick like popping her tongue.
EmviloriamE He was definitely possessed, he just may not have died first. Another comment points out that the dark shadow that appears when he died may actually be Annie’s spirit. The shadow looks decapitated, and Annie dies around the same time.
@@clairee3859 I think it was Annie's flying body! We see her physical body floating towards the tree house after Peter jumps out the window
Peter had to still be alive. If Paimon could go into dead bodies then he would have gone into Charles after he comitted suicide, or into the dad who starved himself to death. Annie subconciously tried to save her kids by killing them; so it makes sense that Paimon can't go into dead bodies. Peter was alive, but posessed.
Letty Lunasical maybe he blew his head off so it wasn’t an option.
also really little details here, but when Annie was in Joannes apartment and she was explaining to her about her grief and loss, Joanne seems to completely ignore everything she said , and right after just says "how is your relationship with your son?"
also when annie is about to leave her apartment and Joanne is giving Annie the things she needs to perform the seance , she says "everyone in your family needs to be there" and mentions Peter first before anyone " *your son*, you, everyone"
idk just the little details struck to me when watching the movie, and it just shows how invested the cult is with Peter, bc they know he is their most important victim
Very I terracing!
I was also struck by Joane's weird little apartment. The door to her apartment was made of glass, which is really weird because a single woman living by herself in an apartment would NEVER have a flimsy glass door as her primary door to her residence. And for someone who had a son and a grandson, that apartment was way, way too small to raise a child in. It almost felt like a made-up apartment, which it was.
The Oscars have a huge bias against horror and science fiction, but Toni Colette´s performance was nothing short of Oscar worthy.
Absolutely! All her scenes are incredible! Such a phenomenal performance from such a talented and brilliant actress!
The Oscars having a bias against science fiction makes Dune even more incredible than it already is for getting this many oscars
The Oscar has personal interests. It's all favouritism.
Agreed! She was amazing as was the son.
This is the first horror film I watched where I had to pause it at certain points to calm down, the whole thing was just so creepy, even when things weren't happening, I just felt this overwhelming sense of anxiety
Yeah it’s so well Made, movie is just laced with subliminal things too
sameeee.
I felt the same. The only time this happened to me before is when I watched Mulholland Drive for the first time. Now these two are my favourite movies in the world!
Yes the music alone freaked me out.
Midsomer was anxiety inducing as well. But I prefer Hereditary.
I missed his friend being in the treehouse WOW! This is one of the best horror films I have seen. Thank you for this great breakdown!
Yeah took me a while to notice too, was mainly the top knot that swung it. Thanks for dropping a comment
Tanya H. I missed that too!
@@heavyspoilers it just goes to show, NEVER trust a man with a top knot.
Timestamp?
Pretty certain his teacher was one of the cultists at the end as well.
That shadow wasn't Peters Soul leaving his body while he's laying in the dirt it was a shadow of his headless mother's corpse floating out of the window
Yes. I was gonna comment that until I found yours lol
double entendre. makes it even more brilliant
I got chills
Correct. It's in the script which everyone should read.
Yeah, Peter didn't die.
Regarding Annie’s beheading: Since you covered the background noise of cultists moving through the house right before the family returns from the funeral, you might weant to review the scenes after Annie hanging out on the ceiling of Peter’s room. When Peter checks his parents’ bedroom, a piano can beard being slammed shut at 01:49:28. In the subtitles it’s called [loud bang]. When Peter walks down the stairs to the hall, the camera’s focus is initially set to the piano. It is shown broken with the keys’ piano wires sticking out. This is Annie’s work. She uses piano wire to decapitate herself later in the attic. Fun side note: the camera angle and expression on Annie’s face are an homage to THAT scene in Carrie (1976), Ari said in an interview [1].
You say the shadow seen after Peter’s jump out of the attic window is his soul leaving his body. I thought so, too, initially, until someone in the Hereditary subreddit pointed out that it’s actually the shadow of now headless Annie floating towards the tree house. Listen again closely. About eight seconds after the thump of Annie’s decapitated head falling to the wooden floor of the attic can be heard, we see the shadow. Its starting position is the attic window from which Peter jumped straight forward, landing with his feet pointing towards it and his head away from it. It’s not 100 % distinguishable but the shadow has no head.
In the ending scene Joan addresses Paimon in Peter’s body as Charlie because this is the name Paimon has become used to as being addressed over the course of thirteen years. Ari said in an interview [2] that Paimon replaced Charlie from the moment she’s born. The thing is, he doesn’t know he’s a King of Hell trapped in the body of a human child. He might have an idea of it, as the bird crashing into the window in Charlie’s class scene suggests, but he’s not fully aware of it. You have to tell him who he is. That’s why Joan does it.
We never get to experience the real Charlie. The only possible exception to this is the séance held in the Graham living room. At one point Annie speaks with a child’s voice. The screenplay [3] says on numbered page 78 “But her voice sounds different. It will now remind us - in inflection, in quality - of CHARLIE’S VOICE.”. We don’t know if this is Paimon playing a trick on Annie, Peter, and Steve, or if it’s the voice of the real Charlie whose soul might have been drifting through the æther since it was evicted from her body at birth. Of course this requires the séance to work like an actual séance works. The one in Joan’s home was fake, and the chalk’s movement either done by Paimon or some appliance.
[1] th-cam.com/video/SHVehwhUCCM/w-d-xo.html
[2] variety.com/2018/film/awards/hereditary-ari-aster-answers-burning-questions-1202841448/
[3] www.scriptslug.com/assets/uploads/scripts/hereditary-2018.pdf
All in all, it’s not everything you can discover in Hereditary but a pretty good collection of details easy to miss on your first watch. Great job!
after the 5th time watching it i noticed and thought the same of the shadow not LEAVING his body but moving over it. i dont think he died after the fall, he just got taken over.
@@robi6317 Peter being dead would be a catastrophe for the cult. Decades of planning and work would have gone to waste if he died. The vessel of a dead body that is slowly decaying would be of little use to Paimon.
@@exoteeelis i agree but then do they BOTH occupy his body?
rob I i always wondered this, maybe peter is in the sunken place?
duuddee!! this answered so many questions!! this is awesome!!
I never noticed that Peter's friend was one of the bowing cult members at the end.
Interesting.
Another thing worth noting as I didn't see it mentioned, that aside from the breath that can be seen outside Peter's window, near the end when he awakens and Annie is hiding on the ceiling, the outside sensor light comes on... Done intentionally by the director to hint to a cult member walking around outside, but also to highlight Annie, as it is the subtle light coming through the window into the room that brightens it just enough to make out her silhouette behind Peter.
this is excellent deduction! I was actually wondering why the light suddenly came on outside the window and your reasoning fits the best.
Which friend? Missed that part.
@@realeyesrealizereallies1194 8:52 this part
@@rachelautumn7866 thnx
my theory on the smirking is that paimon always makes Annie see peter look like that, and that when he saw his reflection that's how Annie always saw him, he just didn't know
The primal observations of a person's character gives your mind an image of what you perceive their overall character and purpose to be. Seeing him and his "that face" is like how you see your "friends" when they're snickering behind your back and you catch them without them knowing. The next time you see them, they're acting normal; you're seeing them with that face as you can see their true nature. (Something like that, hard to put into words)
HOLY SHIT
This is brilliant.
@@nighthawkviper6791 very acute observation...
Yeah man Annie even says to him "Stop fucking smirking at me" when he wasnt smirking at all. Good call
The best and most rewatchable horror movie I’ve seen in a long time.
no doubt. This movie is definitely top 3 creepiest and most horror film of all time. Well created. It's a masterpiece.
I dunno about rewatchable hahaha. It's one of those horror movies where you wouldn't want to watch again just because of how psychologically scarring it is.
@@dannykstick same
@@papaguapa1361 I dont know. I have a problem with this film. The first half was perfect and the scene of the death was absolutely terrifying. But the second half seemed too confusing and random in some way. From my point of view it started being cheaper and lost all its elegance from that point. I definitely prefer Midsommar than Hereditary. A matter of taste I suppose.
I bet. I wouldn't dare yet, though. Just too depressing and terrifying.
Love that he doesn’t do movies the same time as everyone else, it’s not rushed.
Thank you! Have a great weekend and thanks for the kind words
Most thorough analysis I’ve seen yet
If you are talking about the Director, well this one was his first film. Midsommar was the second one (a reboot made to satisfy the audience while the true fans will wait for the third installment) which we know, it won’t be rushed. Since he already has the capital to take it step by step.
@@kahlosin9275 Midsommar was great.
David Clark I don’t say that Midsommar was bad. I’m just saying that compared to Hereditary, it’s not that scary. Hereditary is the most complete horror movie of this era. In every aspect that you look, is a 10/10. I’ve been talking about that movie for more than two years... that’s how good it is.
ANOTHER HIDDEN DETAIL: When Annie walks down the hall during the dream sequence between herself and Peter, her shadow does not have a head on it ..
1:10:35 true
Oh shit
This is the one and only film that has actually upset me. When Peter’s hand shot up and he made that awful face tears really came to my eyes, and I’ve never experienced that before. The whole third act sent shivers through my body and worst of all... we have vaulted ceilings. So naturally, I slept with the lights on to make sure that no one was up perched in the corners.
That corner bit was the worst bit of the film
@@laurabadcredit so i have a deathly fear of what i cal Creepy Crawlers which is anthing evil that starts crawling up walls. i was watching this movie with my boyfriend and in this scene i was so focused on the son and thinking wow they are holding the camera on him for a while and my boyfriend says very slowly....shes in the corner..When i looked i legit screamed bloddy murder and started crying still scares me thinking about it
I was not exactly scared, but profoundly intrigued and that was what compelled me to finish watching the movie! I needed answers!
@@lmsabatino oh noooo!! just reading your experience gave me chills all over again. It's the slowly unsettling scenes like this that are truly, deeply creepy. It's so much better than cheap jump scares.
To me, the face Peter makes in the classroom looks similar to that of Charlie's decapitated head
Can you imagine, years later, after all that trouble getting Paimon onto Earth and possessing a male body, all he does is sit around watching Netflix and demanding his cult members to serve him snacks... I doubt demons ever deliver on promises no matter how convincing
@Look How They Massacred My TH-cam Death to occultist
"I didn't become one of the nine kings of hell just to run out of Doritos! And where the hell is my Zevia???"
@@openskies11 LMAO!!
😂😂😂
Reminds me of the SCP joke story of the cult demon that hated his cultists and their attempts to "release" him.
After Peter jumps out of the window you can hear the mums head hitting the floor, also I always thought that the shadow that you see afterwards was the mum floating out of the window not his soul
this comment makes much more sense
Correct. That was in the script.
I thought it was the demon leaving him.
*trying to listen to footsteps in the house* AD POPS UP: “LETS PLAY RAIDS SHADOW LEGENDS!”
I got lucky. Mine was a Swiffer ad 😂
Worse place ever for that super hyper ad! It made me jump 😬
Hereditary and Midsommar left me feeling so bleak, empty, and full of dread.
@Aditya Sholapurkar Lol i feel the exact opposite. I like both, but compared to Midsommar, Hereditary was kinda meh
@@someguy3494 midsommar is just a bunch of cult wackos doing gore stuff and besides the British couple, stupid foreigners who at least should've try to escape after watching a couple of suicides.
I saw Suspiria not long after Hereditary and I highly suggest it
I liked both for very different reasons.
Hereditary did, but Midsommar just made me angry. Rather than illicit fear or dread, I just got a murder boner thinking about some form of unyielding revenge falling upon the cult. Hereditary conversely really messed me up.
For me, Midsommar peaked at the beginning. The suicide scene was more shocking than anything else in the film, and the part where the sister has a bad trip and sees her dead sister in the mirror was also the scariest.
I would love to watch this kind of movie with everyone here from the comment section! Imagine the conversation we'd have after the movie! You guys are so smart and detail-oriented! I love it!
Yes literally I've researched this vid 3x just to read all the comments!!
Can we not set this up?...
That would be epic 😎
Lmao I mean I got discord...
This would actually be a great idea. Can we do something like this guys?
I noticed in the opening scene when the dad walks into Peter's room, there is a rack on his bedroom wall with three hats on it. Three hats for three heads 😳
It’s interesting how at the end Peter/Charlie/Paimon seems lost rather than evil and triumphant.
Also when Annie channeled someone, seemingly Charlie/Paimon, the spirit seemed lost.
Charlie seemed lost when she was alive.
So it’s as if the demon himself is a victim of the cult, that would be original compared to the usual possession movies where the demon is in control.
I love this so much
@Sam Wayne Christianity and Judaism have practised negative syncretism, meaning they integrated other religions’ gods but as demons to shame said religions and force them into theirs.
So many of these demons are ancient gods, and Paimon may have been a middle-eastern goddess.
Gods or demons, they are generally depicted with human feelings, isn’t it said that Yawhe loves, or that Satan is jealous?
Anyway, it’s not guaranteed that what happened falls into a Christian framework. This may be a demon, a god, a mind from another dimension, who knows.
@@Hodoss I've never heard of Judaism doing that. Christianity, definitely. Islam, or should I say, Mohammed, stole ideas from the Bible too.
but in the video, he says Paigmon guided the deaths and played an implicit part in each - the allergic chocolate, beheading at the pole, etc
Honestly, Peimon is probably done with this shit and tired of having to plan so many elaborate deaths just so he can possess someone lol! In all seriousness, it makes sense and it would be more realistic. He doesn’t want to possess anyone, he’s just being forced to and his mentality is more of “why the fuck am I even here”? Which would be so funny as well, and so in tune with the ridiculousness of cults.
I just remembered that at the Grandma's funeral Annie mentions how more people that showed up than she expected, or something like that. So I'm sure there are plenty of cult members there, just like the creepy smile guy.
They are presumably every single one of them outside of the immediate family, cult members.
@@gamble777888 agreed! She doesn't know most of them...which is very disturbing in itself.
Hereditary is the heartwarming story of a guy and his friends helping him overcome his gender dysphoria.
Lol, that's the story from the Cult's point of view. It's why the ending music is so happy.
@@lettylunasical4766 yup XD
netflix's synthesis be like
if you phrase it that way I Guess
Paimon said trans rights💅🏼
I’ve watched several videos on this movie and this is the first one to actually mention the herb! Nice work! It makes much more sense now
Thank you 🙏
I've been a horror aficionado for almost twenty years now. I really thought I was incapable of being scared anymore, but I'm not going to lie, when I spotted Toni Collette in the corner of the room toward the end, I felt a fear I hadn't felt since my childhood. The creepy naked dude shortly after was almost as bad. Hats off to Ari Aster. I know this film is pretty widely appreciated, but I truly think it's the scariest film of the century so far.
That was my scariest moment too. It's interesting and cool that these figures don't harm anyone. They're just seen at the side of the frame. Look away or pay too close attention to the center and you'll miss them. It's like Hitchcock's bomb under the table. When the bomb goes off that's scary and then the moment's gone. Hitchcock and Aster build suspense and dread as we see the figures and then worry about what the heck they're doing there. It's also against what John Carpenter invented: person is looking into the fridge. He closes the door and there suddenly is Michael or Jason or whoever. Sure it's startling for a moment but there's really no sense of anticipation. He just pops up at really inconvenient times.
The shots of Annie up against the wall and scurrying down are sooo scary. I literally missed it when I saw it in the theatre. I rented it after and freaked out when I saw it. I was shocked I missed it. When she is cutting her head off, her eyes - her terrified glazed expression and the SOUND of sawing. Then off camera, the THUD of her head falling...sheer terror. Brilliant film. I was surprised and delighted when I was completely creeped out by scenes in The Witch. I previously thought ehhh nothing scares me anymore at age 58. Well...yes this film scared the sh*t out of me and I loved it. Screwed up family, psychological terror, anger, resentment and guilt, grief...and a demon. BONUS FOR BEHEADINGS. Great combo!!
For sure, I can’t think of anything that comes close
I think it was the most shocking and unsettling film I’ve ever seen, it runs circles around a movie like The Exorcist
I thought maybe the smile was the face that his mother was referring to.
That maybe he thinks his face is normal, but he's actually grinning like an asshole and and that is why his mother snapped on him. He didn't even realize he was doing it.
That's how I saw it anyway...
Nah, he's always expressionless, his mother is bothered that it doesn't affect him that his sister died because of him but he's affected so badly he's having nightmares etc.
His father would also object if he were smiling continuously,
No one alive in the family smiles during the runtime.
@@harshivpatel6238 no, he means after Peter saw his reflection smiling in the mirror, maybe the mother also see the same delusion, as she consumed with toxic herb, and possibly possessed. She snapped at him that moment she see the smiling face
@@remyle8089 we see a fair bit from mum's perspective, she didn't eat. She didn't hollucimate him smile, rather that she'd been angry that he doesn't seem to care for his guilt. He was suppressing his guilt by weed,
The very moment that guy smiled at the funeral. *expression of deep concern for the rest of the movie*
His presence at the end was fucked
@@nighthawkviper6791 oh dude, youre so fucking right. i recoiled when i saw him observing from the doorway with that huge grin on his face.
Just watched this alone, at night, with headphones up loud. I'm a 37-year-old man and I was afraid to get up and go to the bathroom...because ghosts. Awesome movie
me too brother, me too...
Did the same. I’m 25. Went to bathroom after. Grow some balls.
@@Raz337 🤦
It's not the ghosts you have to worry about... It's the 75 cultists hidden strategically around your house so they're always just out of sight when you look around for them. 😂
Guaranteed you have a ginger goatee, balding, glasses, play Nintendo switch/video games and call yourself your dogs ‘dad’ instead of owner.
Millennials are acc so pathetic. Gen Z proved you’re all a bunch of wet gmps anyway.
“I’ll play the sound of the people walking around the house.”
*Plays ad*
haha fucking ads
The first film ive ever seen that felt like pure evil, like i legit shouldn't be watching this. Never felt so uncomfortable in my life during a movie, i had to go pray after the ending.
Same man
It is too late for prayer. The demon has already entered your home.
Had the same exact feeling- movie was pure evil
Pussies
@@BridgesofMC lol
Hereditary is a truly terrifying, psychological, dark, and UNIQUE horror film. That’s what I love about it…the storyline is very unusual and refreshing, and it explores the real life horrors of cults and the dark side of secrecy
Also the imploding and destruction of a family. Could this be an acknowledgment of the death of the American nuclear family?
@@deanwhite7970 I feels like an allegory of passing on of intergenerational trauma
The part that really stuck with me in this movie was when Charlie died. I have a younger sister as well so my brain subconsciously put thought about being in Peter’s position. I got nauseous and sick from that stress. Great film
I have recommended this movie to friends who have ridiculed it! I just don’t understand what movie they watched because I agree that this is amongst the most affecting horror movies of all time - certainly left an impact on me. I think the final scenes are made quite horrifying when you focus on the fact that it is the child’s mother who is hunting him down - his cry for his ‘mommy’ is wrenching if you are really thinking about it.
I don't think it's unfair to say Hereditary is our generation's Exorcist.
I've been saying this! I remember growing up, watching documentaries about the impact that The Exorcist had on people at the time- people fainting, throwing up, needing to go to hospital, etc.... Watching this in the theaters gave me that PHYSICAL reaction that I have never had before. I've had something close to it when I saw The Exorcist as a child. Even The Conjuring scared me a lot, but HEREDITARY actually gave me a slight panic, anxiety moment! I think it started during the Dinner Argument scene...it struck a nerve in me. It felt so REAL. I have never seen an argument displayed in a movie like the ones I've had in my life. Then as the movie progressed, I was feeling the sounds/low frequencies and I didn't know what was happening. It kicked into high-gear during the final showdown scenes in the house, my heart was racing so fast, my arm was losing sensation, I wanted to GTFO of the showing, but I couldn't. It was wild to feel that.
Exorcism of Emily Rose was a also a good possession movie,a lot of f**k this moments,i.think 2nd scariest next to the exorcist this one 3rd
@@concertino58 I havent seen this movie yet, but I did see The Exorcist in a theater with my mom. It is still the scariest movie ever and there is one scene that I still wont watch today. That scene where the priest is talking about his mom. We see her exiting a subway, then this creepy face blinks on screen for a split second! I'll never forget laughing and joking with my bro and mom for the first parts, but when shit started happening, I 'watched' with my face covered the rest of the movie!
@@concertino58 why is the movie so creepy to other people and just not scary or creepy to me
Both hereditary and the exorcist were a big disappointment. They were just not scary enough.
WOW - I was today years old when I found out one of Peter's buddies was also a worshipper! That gave me goosey bumps!
I have never wanted to walk out of a film at the cinema so much as this one...not because I thought it wasn't any good but because I found it such an uncomfortable watch. Creepy creepy creepy. I kept thinking about it for days after. I don't think I would be able to rewatch it. To have such a strong reaction to it must make it a great movie I guess!!!
I worked at a cinema when this film came out and can confirm plenty of people did walk out!
@@katy_h lmaoo i would of been Look at those walking L!! Point and laugh
That part where you mention Peter's soul leaving his body. Isn't the shadow his mother flying off toward the treehouse? Notice that there isn't a head on the shadow
Yeah I think you’re right, damn I thought I was so smart 😂😂😂
@@heavyspoilers you definitely are really smart and notice a lot of things I've never noticed myself before. I love you videos, keep doing an awesome job
yesssss, great catch...the “departing soul” scene always bugged me but i guess not enough to figure out what was actually happening...i couldn’t wrap my head around why a dark, ominous smog cloud represented Peter’s soul whilst Paimon’s soul was a bright white light...or why we had to be physically shown Peter’s soul floating away in the first place...now the scene finally makes sense to me so thanks for the clarification!
P. S. the final scene kinda bugs me, too!...why was Paimon clicking his tongue like Charlie?...and why the confused stare throughout?...he didn’t even flash a smirk during the final seconds...instead he acted more like Charlie than Paimon and exhibited no self-awareness throughout that scene 🤔
Jason Randall i read somewhere else that Charlie was actually Paimon. Grandma put the demon inside of Charlie’s body so when she died, he was released. Charlie never actually existed, her body was just a host.
@@heavyspoilers no you were right as the light that we see throughout the film finally stays on Peters back (around his heart area) and looks as if it went in or was absorbed. the shadow of course though will have been the mother
One of the scariest movies I've ever seen! The scene where Annie is banging her head against the attic door only to cut her own head off hovering above Peter, stills gives me chills.
ill never get over the fact that the parents were so worried about the girl over her nut allergy but sent her with her brother and neither had an Epipen
Hereditary set a new precedent for horror movies -- which is good, and bad, as now I have come to expect such level of detail in every new horror movie I watch... and let down each time.
Yeah, sucks Toni Collette didn’t get the appreciation she deserved either
In the table argument scene, you can see that behind Peter something is constantly moving, like watching them from behind the table, and then, you can see, that when Anny sits, she makes a noise,but it wasn't she. It was the books behind Peter (you could see red and green items moving), that fell down and made that noise
Great pickup, completely missed that thanks
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong area, but all I see behind Peter is Annie's reflection in the glass 🤔
@@dannielastname5870 It's right near chimney, on his left almost on the level of his eyes. You can see that it's constantly moving left and right, through the entire moment of argument.
I unfortunately think that's Toni's reflection in the glass of the cabinets to Peter's left. I see the movement you're mentioning but it's all pretty matched up with her dialogue/ suggested movement. The books that fall are also just her... sitting down. Not trying to be a buzzkill, this film has amazing hidden treats. Just don't think this one is one of those.
Just rewatched ...definitely Annie’s reflection
The last 15 minutes of this movie give you a visceral feeling of existential dread. Truly magnificent. That last scene where Peter is walking around the house in the dark and there’s zero music, basically no other noise and just his pure terror was so unnerving. I can’t remember the last time I felt that uncomfortable in a horror movie. Wild. So well done.
It has been more than a year since I watched this movie, and I am astounded by how I missed a couple of details such as the three heads that Paimon carries, the hand and staff connection, the "stupid face on your face", those footsteps, and that smoking cultist. This movie is really good. Great analysis!
I was also astonished how I missed one of Peter's friends in the final scene.
Thank you!
One thing I caught the last viewing was the dad making the clicking noise with his tongue while he was on fire 🔥 it’s very quiet so you have to pay close attention. Oh and some teens at the party were watching black and white Guillotine footage on a laptop foreshadowing Charlie’s decapitation
I love horror movies but it's so hard to find good ones. After watching hereditary and midsommar, I can say with certainty that my faith in the horror genre has been restored and Ari Aster is an absolute ARTIST. I cannot wait to see his next masterpiece
Watch his shorts here on youtube.
A little late but I found midsommar to be bland for me.I was intensely hyped when I heard it was the same company but I didn’t find it scary just oddly disturbing.I’m still unsure why some people enjoy it a lot.
Agree. Boring Scream sequel's! And the conjuring slapstick films, basically.
Late comment but check out the movie Oculus
Que Beau Is Afraid lmao, not quite a movie like his first two but still an interesting entry
I remember watching this movie in 4K HDR and it being a bit too clear, I could see every corner so when the mom is just floating there in the corner I shat my pants, I'd seen the movie before but never noticed that...noice
Yeah that’s where I first noticed it too. Dolby vision hides it a bit but you can see her a lot more
@@heavyspoilers now that's the thing, I'm guessing that's not how it was supposed to be seen, so...is that bad for movies?🤔🤔I don't think it ruins the experience but there's purists 😂
My mom wrote a paper about Hereditary for English or something like that. As a result, she ended up memorizing the whole dinner scene. Sometimes, she just walks up to me and recites it word-for-word.
This thumbs up is for your mom for being awesome and creepy.
Well that is terrifying...and fantastic of your mom!
@@crabstick250 Yeah she’s a good actress too, so her heart and soul goes into the performance. It’s scary lol.
That’s evil 🤣🤣🤣 I would pee my pants
i love how the closer you pay attention to this movie, the more terrifying it gets. ari aster is brilliant
That's what happened to me. When I first watched the movie, I wasn't paying much attention because I was working on an art assignment. I went back and watched videos similar to this one, learning each little detail. When I went to bed that night, I couldn't sleep at all, I kept looking at my bedroom ceiling, waiting for Annie to be clinging to one of the corners in my room.
The shadow wasn't Peter's soul leaving his body. It w as his headless mother drifting over him to take her place in the tree house
Now rewatching noticing the cult members appearing in everyday life or seeing them crowd around the house is INSANEEEEEE
When Annie remakes the scene of Charles death, her husband sees it. She has the car, Charlie sticking out, her head on the road, and peter in the front. But at one point they show the scene again and Charlie’s head is gone. (This might not make sense when I say it cuz I’m really bad at explaining but if your rewatch those parts you might notice it)
i did notice it but didn't really catch the significance
Maybe because the cult members took Charlie's head to use for the King Paimon mannequin?
I remember the shot showing the head gone but don't remember if it's before or after Annie has her meltdown where she destroys several of her models. If it's after then the head obviously fell off during Annie's fit and the shot serves as a visual metophor and foreshadowing of the fact the Cult has taken Charlie's head (which we later see on the dummy). If it's before then I guess maybe some of the cultists took it for some reason.
Good catch with the footsteps before they return from the funeral. If the sound is way up during the opening shot, you can here hooves (i.e. Paimon) stepping towards Peter's bedroom.
Ah nice! Never heard that so thank you
10:56 I think it's more the shadow of his dead mother flying above him
Could well be tbh
Yeah and that's further suggested because of the next shot: the mother moving towards the treehouse.
gioturra you’re right!
The #1 thing to remember is that Charlie is never ACTUALLY Charlie, Charlie is Paimon. And Peter didn't necessarily die from the fall at the end. You wouldn't die from a fall that high landing in dirt unless you landed directly on your head.
you can die from a 6ft fall if you land right. Peter very likely hit his head on something when he fell or broke his neck. I think that he would have had to have been alive for paiman to take control though just like he did Annie and Charlie
I agree, the director has actually said that there never was a Charlie, only Paimon and the reason she was always so uncomfortable was because she (or he) was born in a female body, instead of a male one. That makes it even creepier.
@@helenkapetis8869 Paimon literally has gender dysphoria while in Charlie's body if you really think about it
@@helenkapetis8869 He didn't actually say that there was never a Charlie, he said that Charlie was displaced by Paimon at birth, so that would actually imply Charlie exists within the same body but Paimon is the main controlling consciousness. If there never was a Charlie there would probably be no need for the Grandmother to breast feed and drug the toddler with the herbs.
@@gamble777888 I’ll have to find the interview, I’m sure I read it somewhere.
I was actually crying at this. Watching his life literally crumble before him had me a sobbing mess.
I felt bad when he was eating lunch by himself. It was clear that he had friends but by that time in the movie they probably ditched him because of how out of how traumatized and out of touch he seemed
This movie was D I S T U R B I N G.
This movie is so fucking good. Like, seriously, I think it is on the same level as horror classics like The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and The Shining. Ari Aster made a huge impact on me as a fan of movies and I'm eager to see his next work
A small detail I noticed, Charlies room in the house is shaped just like the treehouse with the sky light. But in the house it's usually depicted in a cold blue tone where as the treehouse has the red light radiated from the heaters, Could be a death and life thing there idk
At 7:00 when we see the scene with the blue paint being knocked over. I actually hadn't noticed that her hand never actually touched the bottle, because it is done so subtle, and our eyes make us believe Annie did it, much in the same way that she herself, believes that she did it. This is why Ari Aster is such a great filmmaker. Little details like this, show that he does not care one bit, rather we immediately see things for ourselves, or not. He is more interested in his world being real, believable, and weighted, and it gives us something to experience on our own time, with our own mind set and senses. It's bold, and shows incredibly control, and consideration for our intelligence. Lesser films and filmmakers would have used close ups and music ques and anything else, to make sure we didn't leave the scene until we all knew, together, unmistakably, that an invisible force tipped over the bottle.
i actually noticed two hidden details after watching this movie yesterday with my friend! when annie is working on a miniature (sorry, i dont remember which) you can see in the window behind her that there are two hands pressed on the glass. another one is when the girl peter has a crush on leads him to the room to smoke weed, the two boys that are already in there are watching a video of someone's head being chopped off via guillotine. that last one is the one that really made me go "oh shit, theyre ALL in on it huh" since it was my second watching haha
another cool detail was when Peter was entering the room upstairs at the party, the people in the room were watching someone being beheaded on a guillotine on an iPad, which is foreshadowing Charlie’s beheading later on
😱
Hereditary HAS to be my favourite modern day horror film. The director's decision to avoid jump scares and shock-jock moments, and, instead, rely on atmosphere and precision subtleties really made this movie the eerie and horrific story it was, and such a unique watching experience.
I also very much enjoy being able to pick up on hints and subtleties I missed during my first viewing, which makes this movie perfect for multiple viewings... Yet at the same time I feel it would have had an even greater impact on me had I noticed all the small details the first time around. I can only imagine how much more this movie would have haunted and truly horrified me.
To be honest, I don't think people can truly appreciate the movie without an understanding of Paimon and how 'he' was implented all throughout the plot, and I think anyone who claims to have disliked it should rewatch it, first after learning about the clues and the hidden gems that make the movie whole.
10:56 that's definitely the shadow of Annie's headless body leaving the attic and levitating towards the tree house. The next shot in the actual movie shows that. That being said, incredible movie!
Yup agreed
Exactly.
After Annie wakes up from the nightmare and checks on Peter, he says that he had a nightmare too. Also the road with the engraved telephone pole was the only road leading to the family’s house.
I remember that throughout the movie, my initial theory (one of them anyway) was that Charlie’s ghost was trying to get revenge on Peter. I though this bc of the scenes where Peter slammed his head into the desk like Charlie’s head slammed into the telephone pole, and when Peter started choking like when Charlie’s throat closed up bc of her allergies.
Yeah the throat and choking scene are really really similar. Great spot 👍
I thought that, too!
* peter sustains a nose injury & gets thrown off *
Cult: "we've corrected your female body and placed you into a healthy boy host"
Paimon: " you call this healthy"
Cult: "well you did it to yourself"
Paimon "touché"
Thanks for the laugh
He didn't do it to himself though. Peter did that shit. Paimon wasn't even integrated into him yet.
Alex Wolff's performance (Peter) was truly awesome. That scene in the classroom was some top acting.
I remember seeing this in theatres, then invited my friends along for my second watch since they hadn't seen it yet. They laughed throughout the entire thing and made fun of me for liking it. They aren't my friends anymore :^)
Lexie Tibbs They’re probably cultists of Paimon enjoying the agony unfold with their stupid laughter. Good call on ending those friendships.
Yeah you don’t need that kind of negativity in your life
This is horror on a whole other level, cerebral, intellectual. I find that people who are quick to dismiss it or think it's stupid just don't get it, it's beyond their comprehensive capabilities. I feel badly for them for not seeing just how brilliant Hereditary is. It's an absolute masterpiece.
Anybody who can laugh at Ms Collette's bone-chilling wails of grief is, well, just kind of dead inside.
@@Masky5150 i have had similar experiences with these kinds of people. they either downright don't get it, as you mentioned, or are just way too weak minded for such a movie so they try to downplay it and/or make it funny etc. because they just couldn't take it otherwise. Granted, i did almost shit my pants too at the end but some of those people would get PTSD after watching this alone
This movie did sumthin ta my soul bruh🙃
They make a ritual for that.
Thank you so much for this video! I was trying to make sense of the miniatures, and when you said that they represent the family's inability to control their lives from the beginning and being the cult's puppets - it makes sense!
I thought it was just a job for the mum but fair enough. Makes me wonder if the dad was a doctor or what.
I absolutely loved both Hereditary and Midsommar. I love how director Ari Aster will put these details into his films without hitting you over the head to draw your attention to them.
Completely agree on the “dollhouse aesthetic”... I saw the reflective light as Toni collettes monocle looking in and watching them, maybe even toying with them 🤷♂️ one of the best recent horrors 🙌
This movie is so haunting and amazing with the subtle details. I remember watching this in a theatre and finally realizing the mother on the ceiling in THAT scene and legit saying “HOLY SHIT” in the middle of a quiet theatre
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@Heavy Spoilers Nope, I still think this movie was kind of boring. The only good thing was the little girl. I was so, sooooo bored with the fake-Light Yagami scenes. I couldn´t even begin to put it into words. I wish the movie would´ve given more scenes to the little girl. And I did notice most of these things in my first watch.
Always capitalizing INSANE makes me think you might be
Sheeeeeesh
10:57 I thought that shadow was Annie’s headless body floating out the window.
There’s a reason this movie is so well regarded. I can’t name another modern horror that does as good a job. The acting was insanely good, the depiction of grief was so accurate, it didn’t have cheap jump scares but actually made you terrified at the same time, aw man I really love this movie.
Yup. Agree. I made so many people watch it and they all were not as impressed as we are! Love it.
You broke this down so good. This was a great horror movie and I had to watch it few times to catch everything.
I literally jumped out of my skin when I noticed the Mum on the wall for the first time.
Literally?
Its like the ending of Carrie when the mother is hiding perfectly still before confronting her, it's unnerving because you aren't sure if its actually there at first.
@@70mustang302 hahaha. I said the same thing to myself!!
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You’re videos are very on point and well put together, I’m baffled at how little views this has.
Cheers
It’s unlisted btw I tend to drop these on Sundays so thanks for checking the video out through one of the kinks out there
It wasn't the shadow of his soul leaving his body, it was the shadow of Annie's decapitated body floating out the window and over to the treehouse, which we see later. Peter wasn't dead, just sufficiently traumatized and hurt to become vulnerable enough for possession. Annie became vulnerable enough after the trauma of seeing Steve die. And we know Charles escaped possession by committing suicide so Peter couldn't be completely dead.
5:55 brilliant, subtle moment! Any other movie/director would've gone for a cheap jump-scare... The way the camera held turned this into an "am I really seeing this?" moment... Made it creepier.
Wow I definitely missed his friend at the bleachers being present at the end of the film.
This is the scariest movie I've ever seen. PERFECTLY TRAUMATIZING
The end ceremony in the tree house was so strange for me because it is a place of youthful play and adventure and the innocence of youth. So watching something so hideous and vile in a wooden confined space was hard to describe. It added to the horror being played out before my eyes and made it feel intimate and clean all at the same time and also a very organic and natural feeling accompanied by something so dark and evil was an amazing touch. Bohemian Grove gives that sense a bit with the Forrest and owl’s etc
the final scene looks like the nativity scenes i see all over the place around christmas
Velkro Kitty Probably on purpose to mimic the birth of a god-king
I cant wait to see more from ari aster. Its going to be really tough to top hereditary or midsommar. One of my favorite horror movies ever by far