The main secret of "Hereditary" is that this film is not at all what he is trying to pretend. This movie is sold as a story of ghosts terrorizing a provincial family. In memory, immediately pops up a lot of pictures about the "bad houses", under the string stuffed with all sorts of mysticism and "bu-moments." Almost all of these horrors are built on the idea of ​​paying for sins - the characters have done something terrible in the past, and now otherworldly forces revenge them for their bad behavior.
Recently, it has been customary to talk about the renaissance of the horror film genre, in which five years ago, nothing interesting happened. It seems to me that many successful horrors of recent years are fairly intercepted. The nostalgic "It" is nothing more than a prudent studio project that crosses "The Breakfast Club" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street," however cute it looks, so empty inside the movie, in which there is not a single fresh thought. The recent "A Quiet Place" is a formal exercise: spectacular and skilful use of exactly one technical technique. "Hereditary" on their background looks like a poor relative with a much smaller advertising budget. But it is her, I'm sure, after a dozen years will be remembered as a reference example of the horror of the 10th - the most talented and ultimately most terrible.