Eh, it’s alright. But I’m the opposite of Alex, it takes a LOT to freak me out with a horror movie. I can’t even think of one that does off the top of my head.
The entire horror genre was snubbed for never winning an Oscar. It took more than half a century for fantasy and scifi to show up there. And horror is the one that left behind.
I first saw her in Muriel's Wedding, she was much heavier, the Australian movie that led her to Hollywood. She's a great comedic actress, who surprised me with her succes in more serious movies. She's so great and can excell in any role! Love her
She won Best Lead Actress for this in Blogos de Oro, Best Actress for this at the BOFCA’s, Best Actress for this at CFCA Awards, Best Actress for this at DFCS Awards, Best Actress for this at DFCC Awards, Best Actress for this at Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, Best Actress for this at Fright Meter Awards, Best Actress for this at the GAFCA Awards, Best Actress of the Year for this at the Golden Schmoes, Best Actress for this at Gotham Independent Film Awards, Best Actress for this at HFCS (Hawaii Film Critics Society) Awards, Best Actress for this at HFCS (Houston Film Critics Society) Awards, Best Lead Performer In A Movie for this at IGN Awards, Best Actress for this at Halfway Awards… I could keep going. Shall I?
Yeah. I also have a little sister and I subconsciously put myself in his shoes. I would have felt the exact same way. I probably wouldn’t have gone home. I wouldn’t even have felt comfortable driving after that. I would have sat there on the side of the road just contemplating. Horrific situation right there, regardless of the satanic shit going on
Paimon was originally meant to posses Annie's dad or brother, but both men killed themselves before he could do so. Presumably, they both realised what Annie's mom was trying to do, but were written off as mentally ill. The cult were stuck with what to do, so Annie's mom bullied her into having children. Annie on some level knows any children she has will be doomed (hence why she tried to have a miscarriage and tried to kill them when sleepwalking) and so kept Peter away but caved to letting Charlie know her grandma. As a result, Charlie was possesed as a baby by Paimon. TL;DR Charlie is Paimon. But Paimon doesn't want to be a girl. So the witches created this convolted plan to put Paimon in Peter, which succeeds at the end. The tragedy with Annie is: 1. She genuinely loves her kids, but wasn't raised in a loving home and struggles to be a good parent. Her violent behaviour (trying to kill her kids) was her trying to 'save them' quite sincerely. 2. She said at the start that she 'is blamed'. And she is. But really she was just like a doll in a doll house controlled by higher forces. Also At the dinner scene, Annie sees Peter sneering all the time because it’s Paimon. Just like when Peter has a regular face in class but his reflection is snarky/sneering.
I can hear them in my head. She deserved all the awards for her performance. Horror films deserve more recognition, especially ones like this where it’s more like a psychological horror drama until the more noticeable horror elements emerge. This could easily be a film about Annie descending into her psychosis and the family experiencing shared delusions because of their grief.
@@eddietucker7005I think any parent who has lost a child was inadvertantly destroyed by this movie, myself included. Another layer for me is that my oldest daughter is named Charlie. She is autistic and she has a severe peanut allergy. This movie literally destroyed me for a long time. I refuse to watch it again and I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to be able to finish this video.
Why is he so calm? Hes traumatized. Trauma responses often comes in freezing mode cause it is too much to bear, physically and mentally. Ari Aster really conveys grief in amazingly well crafted manners. The scream of Toni Colette in Hereditary and the scream of Florence Pugh in Midsommar haunted me so much.
You can’t ignore that the entire atmosphere of this movie, the acting, the music, it all just elevates this movie to a whole other level especially with headphones
@@altairtodescatto yeah this movie and the first time watching the Exorcist and Conjuring did weird things to where I actively had nightmares about them. I don’t believe in supernatural shit but these movies haunted me for a few days.
@@altairtodescatto I also watched it with headphones on and alone in my room but with the lights on and it was raining. That night I couldn't sleep very well.😅😢😢
Toni Collette deserved an instant oscar for this role, it is genuinely offensive that the only thing between her and an oscar was the "horror" tag on this movie
This reaction was honestly extremely hilarious for so terrifying a movie but my favorite part is when Alex reassured himself that it's just a movie. "There's a camera crew, they were all paid, they're actors, this isn't real". Also, the support hoodie was great.
Then Steve said to Annie, "You dug up the grave." And we saw Alex's attention got totally sucked back into the movie. All his distraction disintegrated. That was the power of a well-made movie.
@@wavingdragon Absolutely right, that's exactly the kind of experience anyone wants for a horror movie. To be so sucked in and convinced by the scares that we forget it's all just a story.
Dude i hope she took some time off after this movie lol there were moments i forgot i was watching a movie and then the thought would come to mind "she must be EXHAUSTED after acting in this movie". She killed it.
Paradoxically she got snubbed by the Academy for an award winning performance worthy of best actor, and years later they’re giving awards for Godzilla. Those people need to make up their minds.
That moment where the sister dies. That horrifically long moment. So much is being told without any words. The brother's reaction is understandable because he's traumatized. He has no idea what he's supposed to do. He certainly doesn't feel like he can tell anybody, nor that he can hide what happened. He's clearly not mentally mature enough to handle such a terrifyingly traumatizing situation, and I don't think anybody is. Absolutely astounding storytelling. Traumatized me.
Toni Colette, the mother, was also the mother in The 6th Sense. That was 25 years ago. She really aged well and she really makes this movie a modern classic.
Toni Colette was only 27 in the 6th sense. That blew my mind when I found out. I saw her as a 40 year old something when I saw that movie. I was only 14. lol
"aged well"? It's so strange how women aren't allowed to show ageing, they are only called pretty etc. When they "look younger" such a sad and infuriating attitude towards older women 🤨
@@Ktakahashi18I'd recommend checking out his other drama/horror projects if you haven't already, because disturbing family dramas are really his thing
I'm with you on this being the scene that scares me the most. I think, for me at least, it's because of how violent the physical trauma is and that he does it to himself. It's the same reason Annie slamming her head into o the attic door or decapitating herself with the piano wire freaks me out lol
Oh yes! Quote from an interview with Alex Wolf. "It had a foam top but it was hard on the bottom and there were only two of them, and I had to nail it perfectly. I had to have the blood shoot out perfectly out of my nose and jump back and do that whole thing. I remember after, I was just panting, my voice is gone, blood is dripping down everywhere, and blood is gushing down my knee - real blood gushing down my knee because I slammed it against a chair. I couldn’t move my arm, my complete ankle was swollen - it looked like a balloon."
When he said "she's going to be in the doorway", She was actually clinging to the ceiling in the corner of his room. I didn't see that in my first viewing either. Seeing it the second time around made me almost pee my pants
All of the actors in this movie gave masterclass performances the actress who played the daughter especially, one of the most unsettling characters, performances, and deaths ever
Also, the brothers reaction to hearing Charlie's head come off is very realistic. When you know something bad has happened or have witnessed a horrific event, sometimes you're body goes into shock to the point that you are just straight faced calm.
This is absolutely one of my favorite horror movies because it's so damn subtle. You can watch this movie 3 times, knowing how it ends, and still see the connecting lines through everything in the details.
Honestly same. Showed it to my partner and while she was cowering under the covers I was laughing as I realised the amount of stuff I missed XD she didn't take too kindly to my joy
I've seen it several times and even moreso through reactions, like this, and I glean or learn something new every time. There's try a lot going on and it's a shame so many miss the deeper meaning and symbolism.
I can like it maybe as a physiological movie but doesn’t really do it for me as a “horror” movie. I went it hoping to watch it as a horror movie and was dissapointed
This is one of those movies you have to watch a second time and you will notice so many more hints and clues! Like the dirty foot prints on the floors every time they came home. You can even hear the sound of people running around upstairs.
DUUUUUDE that scene in the car with Cole...absolute PERFECTION. I Will never not tear up at that scene, and Toni does it in such a gut-wrenchingly genuine way that it's one of the rare scenes in a movie that really gets me in the feels in a different kind of way compared to most other emotional performances 😢 💔
That scene with the head… horror movies dont scare me, but that came out of the blue.. i was expecting her to fall out the window in the least. Terrifying how its not some supernatural cause of death. And actually realistic
Ari Aster knows something nobody else does about directing actors to wail in the kind of agony and profound despair you'll only see in real life. Midsommar does the same thing.
The actress that plays Charlie, Milly Shapiro, has a skeletal condition known as cleidocranial dysostosis, which can lead to collarbone and cranium deformities. She actually looks like that and it's amazing that she still found success in the acting industry. She's a great actress too, imo.
0:11 ohhhhhhhh man you are IN FOR A TIME MY HUMAN! I watched this back when I had to spoil horror films for myself in order to make it through. I can only IMAGINE what it is like going in not knowing…
30:55 I don't know why so many reactors say Annie is crazy and that the Dad is right to say she's mentally ill when we've just seen her figure the whole thing out and we know she's not crazy! She's been put in a crazy situation and has some strange behaviour (after losing her daughter) but she's the only one who has figured out what is going on!
@@MegaMerdeux I mean she figured out that her Mum was involved in a nefarious cult and she'd gotten some idea of their aspirations. She at the very least realised that there was something supernatural going on, and that the book had created some kind of link she had to destroy. Granted she didn't know how to successfully combat it all but that's not why she's being called crazy.
Alex's inability to put together the clues of them chopping up nuts then the next scene her eating the cake then him confused why her throat was clogging up is wild.
He also wondered if the son had put his sister's body "in the room" when he heard Toni Collett screaming. Like what does that even mean, does he really think this boy dragged around his dead sister like a psychopath lol
😂He doesn't even know what the word desecrated means. Guy spends his entire life watching movies and listening to all different kinds of words... but doesn't know the word desecrated? Really?
It's just ADHD. It's difficult to keep track of things when your brain is behaving like a bloody pinball machine and is more interested in where you last saw that actor, where the scene was filmed or what someone in the background is doing. It's not intentional it's just a bit overwhelming.
You guys are so mean and condescending for no reason, people view and perceive things differently. And being a reactor you also have to balance it out with how you do your commentary for your channel.
Worst traveling decision I ever made was deciding to watch this in a plane, sleep-deprived, and at night. Imagine wanting to get out of the room or cinema where you saw a disturbing movie by yourself and you CAN'T!
9:27 fun fact the three girls making the cake are all in the cult, so they most likely made the cake that way on purpose, because in the beginning of the movie; the cult heard Charlie's parents talking about her nut allergy at the funeral, and right before they go inside the house when they get home you hear several people all running around inside and hiding in the house, so the cult also knew that Charlie would go with Peter to the party, which also explained why that girl was chopping up the nuts, she was chopping them into a powdered form so they could mix it with the cake and the nuts wouldn't be visible, and that was also why they made the cake chocolate, because they knew Charlie would eat it and have an allergic reaction to the nuts, The cult also planted that deer in the road so Charlie would die, It was also shown briefly that the girl that Peter had a crush on also belongs to the cult, so she sperated him from Charlie on purpose, basically Charlie's death wasn't an accident and was orchestrated by the cult. Makes her death even more fucked up doesn't it, but of course they needed to put the family through all that trauma to weaken them enough for Paimon to possess Peter. This movie actually gets even scarier when you learn about everything the cult actually was doing throughout it. PS: The girl washing the dishes was actually in the attic at the end of the movie on the right side of the three naked people before Peter jumps through the window.
@Lukdaman In the movie sure, but Paimon is not a god he isn't even a devil, and is often considered a prince rather than a king even, due to his immature nature. He is sometimes considered the 8th king but at the same time it is more often Belial who is concerned the 8th king. Paimon is often referred to as one of the princes rather than one of the kings. So he is not really the god of anything. The only hell entities considered gods are the three top devils. Beelzebub, Satan, and Lucifer. Who is the top king of hell and most powerful of all the Nine kings that make up every dimension of hell.
So one thing to know that makes a lot of things in this film make sense is that the weird light thing is Paimon the demon, and pretty much whenever it shows up on screen its possessing one of the characters. First it possessed Charlie, then Annie in the scene where her husband bursts into flames (hence her random O face), and lastly Peter, after he jumped out of the attic window (hence why he calmly climbed up into the treehouse)
Alex is his own worst enemy. He was already scared before the movie even started. And he tries to anticipate the scares which cranks up his anxiety for the entire movie. Instead of watching the movie he's too busy looking for the horror, that's why he kept missing things. Peter's window was closed for the entire movie ALEX! lol
There are a lot of reasons to love a film other than the literal story. I know you're joking but loving this film doesn't mean someone agrees with or likes what's happening or whatever. lmao
New drinking game: Take a shot every time Alex yells the F-bomb Take a shot every time Alex complains about being nervous Take a shot every time Alex screams We are all gonna be W A S T E D by the time the video is over, besties
Toni Collette is a criminally underrated actress. Her performance in this movie was so perfectly visceral and blood curdling. One of the best Australian actresses of all time.
I did not feel like she was acting I felt like this was actually happening to her. What a world class actress and talent. Especially being able to be this amazing in horror movies.
The younger actress who plays the little sister, Milly Shapiro, has a real disorder named cleidocranial dysplasia, which they worked into the movie. This is what gives her the appearance we see. Another actor who has it is Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things).
It is fun to watch other people get scared. But also, being scared is a release of tension and stress, and most of the time you can laugh after a scare.
The Grandma displaced the sister as a baby and put Paimon in her body until they could find a male host to displace. So Charlie was paimon the whole time and that's why she is constantly looking to die subconsiously because Paimon is super uncomfy in a female. The clicking is how paimon expresses his stress and anxiety about being in a small female. Paimon is closely related to birds.
You might have misunderstood the burning scene. Those weird lights passed over her, meaning Paimon had possessed her. That's why her expression immediately changed from horror to indifference.
Oh you poor man. I watched this once. Never again. The scene with the ants was one of many that made me feel VERY uneasy to say the least. I definitely needed a drink or two after it was over
Some weird facts (SPOILERS AHEAD) - If you study about king Paimon, in his pictures, he's carrying 3 heads with him......in the movie, the 3 heads were sacrificed to Paimon by the grandmother, mother and the daughter. And if you watch closely that Charlie's tongue clucking and that random light flahes across is actually the representation of Paimon's presence. Charlie was never Charlie to begin with anyway. She was the king Paimon the whole time. The grandmother needed a male vessel to plant this demon, where she used her son but then he got to know of it and commited suicide. Later on she planted it in unborn Charlie thinking she was a boy. Hence she was named with more of a male name "Charlie". Paimon needs a male body to function properly hence got rid of Charlie and passed onto Peter. Also if you had paid attention to the littlest details, you will realize that Charlie's accident was never an accident. I'll leave it to yall to figure out. It gets even weirder, the doll house Annie makes is actually the representation of their family. All the members in that house were like dolls/puppets. Mother, father, son and daughter had no control over what was about to happen. They were doomed to sacrifice themselves to the king Paimon because of their grandmother's messed up demonic rituals. From grandmother to son to granddaughter to mother and finally to the grandson, It passed through generations among the family. It's hereditary!
If this wasn't a horror film Collette would have won every award for her acting. So incredibly real. I guess the direction too.. intensely real responses to the tragedies.
wacthing this movie on its own is great, but watching it then looking into the lore and deeper messages/reacting to others disect the movie makes it a master peice its so deep
This movie is actually horror masterpiece, something very difficult to do nowdays, idk If you saw "The Witch" with Anya Taylor, that one is very good too
@luandeoliveira1581 Midsommar/Hereditary are both by the same director and I liked it more than Hereditary! It's a pretty freaky one though just like everything that director does
at the diner scene the reason she says "you just sit there with that fucking face on your face" is because when the classroom scene happens you can see what his face looks like to other people when he's looking at his reflection
So glad to have you back, posting normally! You aren't the only one who isn't into horror movies really. I'm a fan of Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, IT, Halloween, Alien & Predator franchises, but that is it haha.
Alex, you have my sympathies. The scene with Charlie's head while Peter is speeding to the hospital, the all-hazard siren in Honolulu went off and freaked me out for a sec. Let the good times roll! 🤣🤣🤣
Ari Aster makes such good horror movies. They make you feel so fking uncomfortable but the shots are so cool. I actually wrote a paper on "Midsommar" in university.
WHY DOES EVERYBODY WHO REACTS TO THIS MOVIE THINK ANNIE WAS PULLING PETER’S HEAD IN THAT SCENE 😭😂 It was either completely a dream, or Paimon himself (in some form). Peter’s bed is literally against the wall and it makes no sense as to how, IN REAL LIFE, Annie could’ve been back there pulling his head! 😂😂😂 this is the fourth reaction I’ve watched where people got really weary of Annie there as if she was doing it 🤣
He even pointed out how Peter’s window is always open 😂 Annie was trying to save her family but she looked crazy to pretty much anyone who isn’t Annie.
@@lilscenechick1995 But Peter's window is not open. Neither is Charley's when he says to close it. You can see the reflections of the curtains and window shade.
I know how truly DISTURBING it is to watch this for the first time... but I've honestly never laughed so hard at a reaction... when you got "ready to run".. I pictured you running into the wall 😂😂 I haven't laughed that hard in months... maybe years & I really needed that today. So thank you Alex... truly. ❤
Hates horror movies...gets talked into watching one of the most genuinely unsettling films ever made. Love it.
Eh, it’s alright. But I’m the opposite of Alex, it takes a LOT to freak me out with a horror movie. I can’t even think of one that does off the top of my head.
@@Darth-Lesbian If nothing scares you to the point of you not remembering a movie that does, then the problem is probably you. The movie is great.
@@Ocean5ix I never said it wasn’t a good movie 😂
I just didn’t find it particularly unsettling. Try to be less sensitive.
@@Darth-Lesbiansame,the movie was actually boring to me lol
@@Darth-LesbianEver see Martyrs?
Toni Collette was robbed for not being nominated for an Oscar
That was the snub of the century. the voters will forever be blamed for that. She was absolutely amazing in this movie.
The entire horror genre was snubbed for never winning an Oscar.
It took more than half a century for fantasy and scifi to show up there. And horror is the one that left behind.
I first saw her in Muriel's Wedding, she was much heavier, the Australian movie that led her to Hollywood. She's a great comedic actress, who surprised me with her succes in more serious movies. She's so great and can excell in any role! Love her
For this and as supporting actor for her role as Cole's mom in "The Sixth Sense"
She won Best Lead Actress for this in Blogos de Oro, Best Actress for this at the BOFCA’s, Best Actress for this at CFCA Awards, Best Actress for this at DFCS Awards, Best Actress for this at DFCC Awards, Best Actress for this at Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, Best Actress for this at Fright Meter Awards, Best Actress for this at the GAFCA Awards, Best Actress of the Year for this at the Golden Schmoes, Best Actress for this at Gotham Independent Film Awards, Best Actress for this at HFCS (Hawaii Film Critics Society) Awards, Best Actress for this at HFCS (Houston Film Critics Society) Awards, Best Lead Performer In A Movie for this at IGN Awards, Best Actress for this at Halfway Awards… I could keep going. Shall I?
"Why is he so calm?"
I figure the character totally disassociated at that moment of impact. His brain just ran away.
What the end ? Or the car scene ?
Completely in shock
Car scene @@RobbyRockaholic
This scene really shocked me 'cause I know this is exactly how I would react. If I don't see it, it never happened
Yeah. I also have a little sister and I subconsciously put myself in his shoes. I would have felt the exact same way. I probably wouldn’t have gone home. I wouldn’t even have felt comfortable driving after that. I would have sat there on the side of the road just contemplating. Horrific situation right there, regardless of the satanic shit going on
"why is this kid so calm"
It's called shock.
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37:02 “I want nothing to do with Satan or any fucking high member of his council” was so damn funny to me 😂😂
Paimon was originally meant to posses Annie's dad or brother, but both men killed themselves before he could do so. Presumably, they both realised what Annie's mom was trying to do, but were written off as mentally ill.
The cult were stuck with what to do, so Annie's mom bullied her into having children. Annie on some level knows any children she has will be doomed (hence why she tried to have a miscarriage and tried to kill them when sleepwalking) and so kept Peter away but caved to letting Charlie know her grandma. As a result, Charlie was possesed as a baby by Paimon.
TL;DR Charlie is Paimon.
But Paimon doesn't want to be a girl. So the witches created this convolted plan to put Paimon in Peter, which succeeds at the end.
The tragedy with Annie is:
1. She genuinely loves her kids, but wasn't raised in a loving home and struggles to be a good parent. Her violent behaviour (trying to kill her kids) was her trying to 'save them' quite sincerely.
2. She said at the start that she 'is blamed'. And she is. But really she was just like a doll in a doll house controlled by higher forces.
Also At the dinner scene, Annie sees Peter sneering all the time because it’s Paimon. Just like when Peter has a regular face in class but his reflection is snarky/sneering.
Dude this helps clear things up for me with this movie. Thanks.
Didn’t realize there’s a whole lot more to this movie. I was too stressed out watching this to even realize. Thanks lol
@@thesunnyseries I'm glad i could help. Loved watching Alex's reaction he creases me everytime.
Hahahaha "Hail Paimon dude" -Shane Gillis
Wait so the mom was fucked up from the start it just got progressively worse? And I thought the mom killed the dad or did I misunderstand
I love how he hates horror movies,yet has Michael Myers in the background watching over his shoulder.
I mean if anyone is going to watch over you it might as well be Michael right!🤣
Fr caught me off guard
He just loves William Shatner because that’s whose face it is
Bye it scared me
He did yell at it to stay the f back
Toni Collette’s anguished cries and screams still make me tear up every time. Truly an incredible performance.
I can hear them in my head. She deserved all the awards for her performance. Horror films deserve more recognition, especially ones like this where it’s more like a psychological horror drama until the more noticeable horror elements emerge. This could easily be a film about Annie descending into her psychosis and the family experiencing shared delusions because of their grief.
I’ve felt and cried my soul into the floor when my daughter died. I had a massive flashback.
@@eddietucker7005I think any parent who has lost a child was inadvertantly destroyed by this movie, myself included. Another layer for me is that my oldest daughter is named Charlie. She is autistic and she has a severe peanut allergy. This movie literally destroyed me for a long time. I refuse to watch it again and I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to be able to finish this video.
She is an incredible actress.
TH-cam recommended me this video and this is probably the greatest recommendation TH-cam has done for me. I was entertained the whole time. LOL
this comment makes me happy lol
Why is he so calm? Hes traumatized. Trauma responses often comes in freezing mode cause it is too much to bear, physically and mentally.
Ari Aster really conveys grief in amazingly well crafted manners. The scream of Toni Colette in Hereditary and the scream of Florence Pugh in Midsommar haunted me so much.
Those screams are so real and raw. Its hard to remember its all a movie
All they did in that movie was cry and scream. It was so boring.
You can’t ignore that the entire atmosphere of this movie, the acting, the music, it all just elevates this movie to a whole other level especially with headphones
Yep, that was the shit when i watched it, in my room at night, lights out and headphones on. Long time a horror movie didnt scary me as much as this
Nah, I’m good without headphones 🤣 I’ll just watch horror movies in my living room, 15 feet away, with all the lights on.
@@altairtodescatto yeah this movie and the first time watching the Exorcist and Conjuring did weird things to where I actively had nightmares about them. I don’t believe in supernatural shit but these movies haunted me for a few days.
@@samhescott348 nah yeah i literally can’t even watch fully, i’ll put one on and get on my phone😭😭
@@altairtodescatto I also watched it with headphones on and alone in my room but with the lights on and it was raining. That night I couldn't sleep very well.😅😢😢
"Nothing truly scary has happened yet so that's good"
*Less than 2 seconds later*
"FUCK OH MY GOD"
bro got scared bc of the bird crashing into the window and it got me laughing for 2min
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I was laughing so hard I shit my pants In Fear😂💀👻
Toni Collette deserved an instant oscar for this role, it is genuinely offensive that the only thing between her and an oscar was the "horror" tag on this movie
Academy hates genre film. It's unfortunate. This is a genuinely good film.
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12:00 he isn't calm. He's having a silent panic attack. As someone who has them often, I can tell.
the random moments of alex looking around his room checking for something is literally me watching horror movies😭
That made me chuckle!!😅
Same 😂
This reaction was honestly extremely hilarious for so terrifying a movie but my favorite part is when Alex reassured himself that it's just a movie. "There's a camera crew, they were all paid, they're actors, this isn't real". Also, the support hoodie was great.
Then Steve said to Annie, "You dug up the grave." And we saw Alex's attention got totally sucked back into the movie. All his distraction disintegrated. That was the power of a well-made movie.
@@wavingdragon Absolutely right, that's exactly the kind of experience anyone wants for a horror movie. To be so sucked in and convinced by the scares that we forget it's all just a story.
Toni Colette in this movie = Peak of cinema acting
When she got paid dust by the Academy I immediately KNEW they wouldn’t ever give a rat’s a$$ about horror
She killed it
Dude i hope she took some time off after this movie lol there were moments i forgot i was watching a movie and then the thought would come to mind "she must be EXHAUSTED after acting in this movie". She killed it.
Absolute blasphemy that she wasn't even nominated for an Emmy, but what could you really expect from the academy
Paradoxically she got snubbed
by the Academy for an award winning performance worthy of best actor, and years later they’re giving awards for Godzilla. Those people need to make up their minds.
That moment where the sister dies. That horrifically long moment. So much is being told without any words. The brother's reaction is understandable because he's traumatized. He has no idea what he's supposed to do. He certainly doesn't feel like he can tell anybody, nor that he can hide what happened. He's clearly not mentally mature enough to handle such a terrifyingly traumatizing situation, and I don't think anybody is.
Absolutely astounding storytelling. Traumatized me.
Hereditary is genuinely the first movie that ever made me sleep with all the lights on in my apartment. It's genius.
I must be immune to horror movies because it didn't affect me.
at 4:58 that "You stay the FUCK back" to the Michal Myers mask got me.
then at 6:06 reacting like he got slammed in the back of the head LOL, too funny
@@eilishmclennan6546 OMG!! I DIED LAUGHING!! XD
Toni Colette, the mother, was also the mother in The 6th Sense. That was 25 years ago. She really aged well and she really makes this movie a modern classic.
Toni Colette was only 27 in the 6th sense. That blew my mind when I found out. I saw her as a 40 year old something when I saw that movie. I was only 14. lol
She is absolutely beautiful as well
Yeah, women always look good "for their age" whereas men get "distinguished" and "handsome". 🙄
"aged well"? It's so strange how women aren't allowed to show ageing, they are only called pretty etc. When they "look younger" such a sad and infuriating attitude towards older women 🤨
I'll always remember when the director of this film (and other wild horror films) did a Reddit AMA and they asked "Hey Ari Aster. Are you okay, man?"
I remember my friend telling me about that and wasnt his reply just "no"
@@BassLineProductionsI I think it was, actually. lol.
After this movie yeah that's a legit question, I had the same question while watching the movie too. 😮
lol
@@Ktakahashi18I'd recommend checking out his other drama/horror projects if you haven't already, because disturbing family dramas are really his thing
29:16 He actually hurt himself doing that scene. It's also the scene that scares me the most for some reason.
I'm with you on this being the scene that scares me the most. I think, for me at least, it's because of how violent the physical trauma is and that he does it to himself. It's the same reason Annie slamming her head into o the attic door or decapitating herself with the piano wire freaks me out lol
Oh yes! Quote from an interview with Alex Wolf.
"It had a foam top but it was hard on the bottom and there were only two of them, and I had to nail it perfectly. I had to have the blood shoot out perfectly out of my nose and jump back and do that whole thing. I remember after, I was just panting, my voice is gone, blood is dripping down everywhere, and blood is gushing down my knee - real blood gushing down my knee because I slammed it against a chair. I couldn’t move my arm, my complete ankle was swollen - it looked like a balloon."
When he said "she's going to be in the doorway", She was actually clinging to the ceiling in the corner of his room. I didn't see that in my first viewing either. Seeing it the second time around made me almost pee my pants
Alex: "ah, Joan needs a hug"
Me: knowing full well that Joan is a sick cultist
my final film exam is tomorrow I should really be studying rn… who cares about that though I need to see how badly this movie scares Alex 🗣️🗣️
Rip in a similar situation rn, I know how you feel
Same 😂😂
Study now!
i got the same feeling :)
Omg that's ironic. My final for introduction to videography is due tomorrow and it's a 3 minute music video😫
He's not calm. He's in profound shock.. and yes we are profoundly enjoying your meltdown. Cause we had the same meltdown when we saw it .😂😂😂
All of the actors in this movie gave masterclass performances the actress who played the daughter especially, one of the most unsettling characters, performances, and deaths ever
3:23 In my experience, grief manifests over several weeks/months as you realize how different life is without them...
Also, the brothers reaction to hearing Charlie's head come off is very realistic. When you know something bad has happened or have witnessed a horrific event, sometimes you're body goes into shock to the point that you are just straight faced calm.
You screaming and him screaming before he jumped out the window…ya’ll sounded the exact same and I died laughing 😂😂
To be fair, jumping the fuck out the window is the most relatable part of that movie
@keeganbate8935 I'd do the same. What else could you do, it's the devil, game over
This is absolutely one of my favorite horror movies because it's so damn subtle. You can watch this movie 3 times, knowing how it ends, and still see the connecting lines through everything in the details.
Honestly same. Showed it to my partner and while she was cowering under the covers I was laughing as I realised the amount of stuff I missed XD she didn't take too kindly to my joy
I've seen it several times and even moreso through reactions, like this, and I glean or learn something new every time. There's try a lot going on and it's a shame so many miss the deeper meaning and symbolism.
Meanwhile, I appreciate and understand its subtlety, but I just didn’t enjoy it. It’s simply fine.
I can like it maybe as a physiological movie but doesn’t really do it for me as a “horror” movie. I went it hoping to watch it as a horror movie and was dissapointed
Subtle up until near the end where they throw subtly out the window and jump into cliche af trash
This is one of those movies you have to watch a second time and you will notice so many more hints and clues! Like the dirty foot prints on the floors every time they came home. You can even hear the sound of people running around upstairs.
I barely made it through once. No idea how the fuck this movie is rated 7.1. Trash movie.
What I love about Hereditary is how clever they were in putting clues for you to put the pieces together with what the lore is.
33:00 i cant stop laughing how Alex just bobbed his whole body screaming 🤣
He shook like a coke bottle with mementos 💀😭
Hes the first ive seen that actually noticed that Annie didnt knock over the paint jar at 15:38
OMG I laughed so hard when you edited urself sitting at the table as she's yelling hahaha
Steve, bro!
Alex's reaction when the mom comes out of the corner and chases the son is PRICELESS!!! 😂😂😂
Fun fact: Charlie was never Charlie. She was Paimon from the moment she was born. Her soul separated from her body at birth
Misses the grandma standing in the dark*
“Nothing truly scary has happened”
It has, you just missed it. lol
Honestly maybe it's for the best that he did, he might've just noped out right then.
that face gave me nightmares
i missed it the first watch as well XD
Yeah 100% Alex missed her outline in the darkness lol, any glare on the screen and you can't notice it.
Yeah, I saw it too.
"Where's my Bible?"
You should have had that out from the get-go, considering the type of movie this is! lol!!!
And the mention of pamon aswell 😂
I don't know if the bibel will save me from a horror movie. But if I have to see this, so does God have to take one for the team
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Toni Collette is a beast of an actress, I think she gets cast without auditions since The Sixth Sense, just a legend
DUUUUUDE that scene in the car with Cole...absolute PERFECTION. I Will never not tear up at that scene, and Toni does it in such a gut-wrenchingly genuine way that it's one of the rare scenes in a movie that really gets me in the feels in a different kind of way compared to most other emotional performances 😢 💔
That scene with the head… horror movies dont scare me, but that came out of the blue.. i was expecting her to fall out the window in the least. Terrifying how its not some supernatural cause of death. And actually realistic
U should watch midsummer. As a Swede I can say that its basically just your average swedish celebration
😂😂😱😱😭😭
I laughed SO HARD at that scream of abject terror when the mom ran out of the corner.
Me too, He almost turned his hoodie into a butthole pulling on the strings lol.
I think this took several years off of Alex's life.
Who's to say how long we're meant to live anyway? No such thing as premature death.
Ari Aster knows something nobody else does about directing actors to wail in the kind of agony and profound despair you'll only see in real life. Midsommar does the same thing.
My god yes Florence Pugh’s crying is the ultimate in agony and despair.
The actress that plays Charlie, Milly Shapiro, has a skeletal condition known as cleidocranial dysostosis, which can lead to collarbone and cranium deformities. She actually looks like that and it's amazing that she still found success in the acting industry. She's a great actress too, imo.
0:11 ohhhhhhhh man you are IN FOR A TIME MY HUMAN! I watched this back when I had to spoil horror films for myself in order to make it through. I can only IMAGINE what it is like going in not knowing…
30:55 I don't know why so many reactors say Annie is crazy and that the Dad is right to say she's mentally ill when we've just seen her figure the whole thing out and we know she's not crazy! She's been put in a crazy situation and has some strange behaviour (after losing her daughter) but she's the only one who has figured out what is going on!
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She didn't figure it out since she ended up burning her husband and getting possessed. She was being manipulated by Paimon, successfully I'd say.
@@MegaMerdeux I mean she figured out that her Mum was involved in a nefarious cult and she'd gotten some idea of their aspirations. She at the very least realised that there was something supernatural going on, and that the book had created some kind of link she had to destroy. Granted she didn't know how to successfully combat it all but that's not why she's being called crazy.
My Son didn't cry when he was born, just looked around😂
Hail Paimon!
Keep him away from the sharp objects
Fully conscious baby
"ah shit, here we go again"
He was pre-born 😂
Alex's inability to put together the clues of them chopping up nuts then the next scene her eating the cake then him confused why her throat was clogging up is wild.
Not shocked. My man just does not do visual storytelling. He needs things explained pretty often.
He also wondered if the son had put his sister's body "in the room" when he heard Toni Collett screaming. Like what does that even mean, does he really think this boy dragged around his dead sister like a psychopath lol
😂He doesn't even know what the word desecrated means. Guy spends his entire life watching movies and listening to all different kinds of words... but doesn't know the word desecrated? Really?
It's just ADHD. It's difficult to keep track of things when your brain is behaving like a bloody pinball machine and is more interested in where you last saw that actor, where the scene was filmed or what someone in the background is doing. It's not intentional it's just a bit overwhelming.
You guys are so mean and condescending for no reason, people view and perceive things differently.
And being a reactor you also have to balance it out with how you do your commentary for your channel.
Worst traveling decision I ever made was deciding to watch this in a plane, sleep-deprived, and at night.
Imagine wanting to get out of the room or cinema where you saw a disturbing movie by yourself and you CAN'T!
9:27 fun fact the three girls making the cake are all in the cult, so they most likely made the cake that way on purpose, because in the beginning of the movie; the cult heard Charlie's parents talking about her nut allergy at the funeral, and right before they go inside the house when they get home you hear several people all running around inside and hiding in the house, so the cult also knew that Charlie would go with Peter to the party, which also explained why that girl was chopping up the nuts, she was chopping them into a powdered form so they could mix it with the cake and the nuts wouldn't be visible, and that was also why they made the cake chocolate, because they knew Charlie would eat it and have an allergic reaction to the nuts, The cult also planted that deer in the road so Charlie would die, It was also shown briefly that the girl that Peter had a crush on also belongs to the cult, so she sperated him from Charlie on purpose, basically Charlie's death wasn't an accident and was orchestrated by the cult.
Makes her death even more fucked up doesn't it, but of course they needed to put the family through all that trauma to weaken them enough for Paimon to possess Peter. This movie actually gets even scarier when you learn about everything the cult actually was doing throughout it.
PS: The girl washing the dishes was actually in the attic at the end of the movie on the right side of the three naked people before Peter jumps through the window.
I think it would be cooler if it was all paimon's doing since he's the god of mischief
@Lukdaman In the movie sure, but Paimon is not a god he isn't even a devil, and is often considered a prince rather than a king even, due to his immature nature. He is sometimes considered the 8th king but at the same time it is more often Belial who is concerned the 8th king. Paimon is often referred to as one of the princes rather than one of the kings. So he is not really the god of anything. The only hell entities considered gods are the three top devils. Beelzebub, Satan, and Lucifer. Who is the top king of hell and most powerful of all the Nine kings that make up every dimension of hell.
So one thing to know that makes a lot of things in this film make sense is that the weird light thing is Paimon the demon, and pretty much whenever it shows up on screen its possessing one of the characters. First it possessed Charlie, then Annie in the scene where her husband bursts into flames (hence her random O face), and lastly Peter, after he jumped out of the attic window (hence why he calmly climbed up into the treehouse)
“You don’t have good weed “”Charlie’s gunna get drunk?” 😭😭😭now that’s how you watch a movie 😭
Its fun to see alex THIS nervous. Every shot of the movie is a trigger HAHHA
Alex is his own worst enemy. He was already scared before the movie even started. And he tries to anticipate the scares which cranks up his anxiety for the entire movie. Instead of watching the movie he's too busy looking for the horror, that's why he kept missing things. Peter's window was closed for the entire movie ALEX! lol
@@DonMachado HAHAHAHAHAH EXACTLY MAN!
Watching Alex watch Hereditary is the first time I've ever had fun experiencing this film.
Him freaking out when the bird hit the window was peak reaction content 😂
Loved the editing on this one, you sitting at the table during the argument was so funny xD
After that gem, it's time for Alex to watch "Midsommar"..... another great wholesome movie for the whole family. 😉
Boring
"People out there actually be watching movies like this" 😂 Thats hilarious, this is definitely someone's favorite movie and whoever it is scares me
There are a lot of reasons to love a film other than the literal story. I know you're joking but loving this film doesn't mean someone agrees with or likes what's happening or whatever. lmao
Hi
*covers up shrine to Hereditary movie*
Yeah, that person would totally scare me too. Wanna see my treehouse?!?
@@RealBradMillercomforting knowing I'm not alone
Hi, this is one of my favs
Yo. He was legit scared
I remember reading my Bible when a movie left me feeling way too scared, like for real scared.
Note: he wasn't calm, he was in severe shock
New drinking game:
Take a shot every time Alex yells the F-bomb
Take a shot every time Alex complains about being nervous
Take a shot every time Alex screams
We are all gonna be W A S T E D by the time the video is over, besties
Wasted
You'd be dead by the end of this one
Dead. Straight up dead.
Do you mean "wasted" like long night on the town "wasted" or GTA death screen "WASTED"? I'd go with the latter
@@angelguerrero7655 Both.
I love how the little Michael Myers head stays in your minimized picture at all times lol.
Toni Collette is a criminally underrated actress. Her performance in this movie was so perfectly visceral and blood curdling. One of the best Australian actresses of all time.
She is a world treasure, and should be protected at all cost
Lmao this is me finding out shes Australian
@@PeepliiI found out when I saw her in Muriel's Wedding. Great flick!
I did not feel like she was acting I felt like this was actually happening to her. What a world class actress and talent. Especially being able to be this amazing in horror movies.
She's also pulling off an American accent at the same time as acting like it's a walk in the park
the bible at the end, i'm crying lmao
The younger actress who plays the little sister, Milly Shapiro, has a real disorder named cleidocranial dysplasia, which they worked into the movie. This is what gives her the appearance we see.
Another actor who has it is Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things).
Bro, I was busting out laughing when she came running out of the shadows and your scream 😂😂😂 priceless!
It is fun to watch other people get scared. But also, being scared is a release of tension and stress, and most of the time you can laugh after a scare.
That was great!! Midsommar next??:)
The editing, the screams, looking around, constantly making sure no one is in the room, HILARIOUS
GREAT REACTION
The Grandma displaced the sister as a baby and put Paimon in her body until they could find a male host to displace. So Charlie was paimon the whole time and that's why she is constantly looking to die subconsiously because Paimon is super uncomfy in a female. The clicking is how paimon expresses his stress and anxiety about being in a small female. Paimon is closely related to birds.
Where did Charley’s original spirit go?
The 'nothing truly scary has happened yet' and then the bird slamming against the glass was just perfect timing.
You might have misunderstood the burning scene. Those weird lights passed over her, meaning Paimon had possessed her. That's why her expression immediately changed from horror to indifference.
Thx for reading that at the end, I needed that, not cuz the movie but for life in general
Oh you poor man. I watched this once. Never again. The scene with the ants was one of many that made me feel VERY uneasy to say the least. I definitely needed a drink or two after it was over
Some weird facts (SPOILERS AHEAD) - If you study about king Paimon, in his pictures, he's carrying 3 heads with him......in the movie, the 3 heads were sacrificed to Paimon by the grandmother, mother and the daughter. And if you watch closely that Charlie's tongue clucking and that random light flahes across is actually the representation of Paimon's presence. Charlie was never Charlie to begin with anyway. She was the king Paimon the whole time. The grandmother needed a male vessel to plant this demon, where she used her son but then he got to know of it and commited suicide. Later on she planted it in unborn Charlie thinking she was a boy. Hence she was named with more of a male name "Charlie". Paimon needs a male body to function properly hence got rid of Charlie and passed onto Peter. Also if you had paid attention to the littlest details, you will realize that Charlie's accident was never an accident. I'll leave it to yall to figure out. It gets even weirder, the doll house Annie makes is actually the representation of their family. All the members in that house were like dolls/puppets. Mother, father, son and daughter had no control over what was about to happen. They were doomed to sacrifice themselves to the king Paimon because of their grandmother's messed up demonic rituals. From grandmother to son to granddaughter to mother and finally to the grandson, It passed through generations among the family. It's hereditary!
If this wasn't a horror film Collette would have won every award for her acting. So incredibly real. I guess the direction too.. intensely real responses to the tragedies.
wacthing this movie on its own is great, but watching it then looking into the lore and deeper messages/reacting to others disect the movie makes it a master peice its so deep
Adding that to my list of things to NEVER do, thank you 🙏🏽
@@5050TM so you didnt watch this persons reaction?
Oh boy i am so ready to hear his screaming 😂
Bro that’s sick 🤣🤣🤣
This movie is actually horror masterpiece, something very difficult to do nowdays, idk If you saw "The Witch" with Anya Taylor, that one is very good too
Both these and I also would say Midsommar are some great modern horror masterpieces
@@BassLineProductionsI I never watched this one, It will be on my list
@luandeoliveira1581 Midsommar/Hereditary are both by the same director and I liked it more than Hereditary! It's a pretty freaky one though just like everything that director does
All 5 Insidious movies should be added to this list as well. You have to watch all 5, because the whole 360° of the story is told through the 5 as 1.
at the diner scene the reason she says "you just sit there with that fucking face on your face" is because when the classroom scene happens you can see what his face looks like to other people when he's looking at his reflection
Toni Collette deserved an Oscar for this movie. She's amazing!
My boy went out recorded himself walking the dog and walked right in to record the video 😂😂
So glad to have you back, posting normally!
You aren't the only one who isn't into horror movies really. I'm a fan of Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, IT, Halloween, Alien & Predator franchises, but that is it haha.
Well, the classics will always be amazing, that's more than enough to be considered into horror hahaha
Those are moreso slashers and action flicks than horror movies tbh. Elm Street I suppose counts as horror a bit more.
Alex, you have my sympathies. The scene with Charlie's head while Peter is speeding to the hospital, the all-hazard siren in Honolulu went off and freaked me out for a sec. Let the good times roll! 🤣🤣🤣
You looking around your room during several parts of the movie is so funny LMAOO
14:38 You: “Awe, Joan needs a hug. 😔”
Me, who has already watched this: “Nahh, F¥€k JOAN! 👆🏼”
Lmaoooo 😅😭
Ari Aster makes such good horror movies. They make you feel so fking uncomfortable but the shots are so cool. I actually wrote a paper on "Midsommar" in university.
0:25 Hey! Nice to put a face to the awesome editing skills and hilarious secondary commentary. Cheers, Mate. 🥃
WHY DOES EVERYBODY WHO REACTS TO THIS MOVIE THINK ANNIE WAS PULLING PETER’S HEAD IN THAT SCENE 😭😂 It was either completely a dream, or Paimon himself (in some form). Peter’s bed is literally against the wall and it makes no sense as to how, IN REAL LIFE, Annie could’ve been back there pulling his head! 😂😂😂 this is the fourth reaction I’ve watched where people got really weary of Annie there as if she was doing it 🤣
Right?!?!?? Drives me crazy!
He even pointed out how Peter’s window is always open 😂
Annie was trying to save her family but she looked crazy to pretty much anyone who isn’t Annie.
@@lilscenechick1995 But Peter's window is not open. Neither is Charley's when he says to close it. You can see the reflections of the curtains and window shade.
To be fair, those _do_ look like Annie’s hands…
Oh my dear god. The moment when he said "it's 1:45" I glanced at the clock on my phone and it is 1:45...
Wait noooooo
I saw this comment & was watching at 1:36
And same thing happened to me
crap that’s creepy
36:55 the breakdown from here is hilarious. “I want nothing to do with satan or a member of his high council…. F that movie” 😅😂
The higher Alex jumps from scare the happier we are. ❤️
"Where's my Bible?!" 24:09 Haha. And what did Alex read at the end of the video?
I know how truly DISTURBING it is to watch this for the first time... but I've honestly never laughed so hard at a reaction... when you got "ready to run".. I pictured you running into the wall 😂😂 I haven't laughed that hard in months... maybe years & I really needed that today. So thank you Alex... truly. ❤
34:09 That light is Paimon. He possessed Peter. That's why he clicks, because Paimon, who was in Charlie, is now in Peter.
31:10 Man is re-enacting the John Bernthol meme in real life lmaooo