Hereditary

I was originally kind of shocked to hear that not a ton of people in our class found Hereditary to be scary because I found it to be so incredibly frightening when I watched it. I was so thankful to watch it with Rita on facetime because I would have probably freaked it. It was also extremely helpful to talk about it for a while afterwards :) Anyhow, after thinking about it for a while, I am wondering if I was truly fearful when watching, or just super disturbed. There were so many events that took place in the film that were not necessarily scary, but just so unfortunate and uncomfortable to watch (mostly the car beheading and all the moments in the movie that remind the viewer of that moment) ((the scene after Charlie's head goes flying was the worst for me... the look in Peter's eyes was Awful!!!)). I feel like watching this film just kind of took the worst possible situation and made it so much worse with every passing second. We couldn't even trust Joan to be a glimmer of hope!!! 

One thing I was thinking about when watching Hereditary was the ideas that Clover discussed about with occult films. I found this film to kind of follow those ideas, but in a very different way. Steve, bless his heart, may have been a man in crisis when he burned alive, but I feel like Peter was truly the man (or boy) in crisis. I mean, he was being hunted essentially by his younger demon sister who he killed (I have no idea why the Annie thought that doing a séance would help considering ghosts are usually angry when they were KILLED by someone who is still alive). However, it is interesting because Peter's mother really is not possessed for that long in the movie, it seems to be more about the build up than the actual possession of her and then her son. I think it's also interesting that both Peter and Annie share similar ranges of emotion from being silently angry, yelling at each other, and openly weeping. Normally that is reserved for the female character only, but Peter has his fair share of disruptive cries. Despite all of the struggle shared between the characters, they all still lose, and the demon cult wins. I found this ending to be a little clunky, but I can't really imagine how else it would have ended... can you really kill a demon?