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Synopsis

Death isn’t the end but the beginning of the terrifying mysteries facing the Graham family in writer-director Ari Aster’s debut feature. When the difficult matriarch of the family passes away, processing their grief should be the biggest hurdle facing her remaining family: her daughter Annie (Toni Collette), Annie’s husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), and their children Peter (Alex Wolff) and Charlie (Milly Shapiro). But it soon becomes clear that Annie’s mother cast a long shadow, over Charlie in particular – and she may not be as dearly departed as they think. Her death has set off a chain reaction, unraveling the cryptic secrets in Annie’s ancestry and unleashing very real dangers her family can only begin to understand. What terrible fate have they inherited?

Cast

  • Toni Collette
  • Gabriel Byrne
  • Alex Wolff
  • Ann Dowd
  • Milly Shapiro

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88
Jun 7, 2018

Hereditary isn’t just a scary movie. It’s much, much, much worse than that.

Metacritic review by Brian Truitt
Brian Truitt
USA Today
70
Jun 7, 2018

Hereditary is a great scare-fest and a middling domestic saga, one that probably needed to be either 90 minutes long and brimming with terror, or three hours long and suffused with glacial, Bergman-esque dread. Aster has charted a middle path, and for a first film, it’s hard to fault the skill he’s shown in doing it.

David Sims
The Atlantic
75
Jun 7, 2018

Creepy, creepy, creepy. Writer-director Ari Aster makes an impressively unnerving debut with Hereditary, a meticulously crafted horror thriller.

Metacritic review by Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Hereditary (2018) family-friendly?
The movie has been rated as R, meaning that Under 17 requires an adult accompaniment.
How long is Hereditary (2018)?
The movie is 2hr 6min long.
What's Hereditary (2018) about?
Death isn’t the end but the beginning of the terrifying mysteries facing the Graham family in writer-director Ari Aster’s debut feature. When the difficult matriarch of the family passes away, processing their grief should be the biggest hurdle facing her remaining family: her daughter Annie (Toni Collette), Annie’s husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), and their children Peter (Alex Wolff) and Charlie (Milly Shapiro). But it soon becomes clear that Annie’s mother cast a long shadow, over Charlie in particular – and she may not be as dearly departed as they think. Her death has set off a chain reaction, unraveling the cryptic secrets in Annie’s ancestry and unleashing very real dangers her family can only begin to understand. What terrible fate have they inherited?
Who's the cast of Hereditary (2018)?
  • Toni Collette as Annie
  • Gabriel Byrne as Steve
  • Alex Wolff as Peter
  • Ann Dowd as Joan
  • Milly Shapiro as Charlie
Who's the director behind Hereditary (2018)?
Ari Aster directed Hereditary (2018).