The Close-to-Home Horror of <em>Hereditary</em>
Ari Aster’s debut film stars Toni Collette as a mother besieged by fears of a family curse.
What more indefatigable enemy is there than the family tree, the idea that one’s worst nightmares have been inherited and are doomed to recur from generation to generation? Ari Aster’s debut film, is an impressive, wrenching piece of horror that draws all its power from that notion—that we’re cursed, as it were, to be our parents’ children. Aster has crafted a story with one foot in the world of the tense kitchen-sink drama and the other in something far more supernatural, and while it doesn’t fully succeed at
