"Hereditary" is an Unsettling, Masterful Film - One of 2018's Best So Far
The summer movie season is here and I could not be more excited! This weekend marks the opening of three new films, one of which I was able to check out last night. I decided to go scare myself with the highly anticipated Hereditary , a film that has been gaining huge amounts of praise throughout the festival circuit. Being hailed as this generation’s The Exorcist , Hereditary aims to capture that cult following of horror lovers, and let me just say right off the bat that this movie…this movie shook me to my core. A little behind-the-scenes moment here: I live a few blocks down from my local theater, a smaller 12 screen cinema right in the heart of downtown. It takes me about five minutes to walk there from my apartment. Now, I consider myself a fairly macho guy, despite the calm, cool, and collected nature I tend to portray. I walked to the theater last night to catch the 7:00pm showing. I watched the movie, tried desperately to process what exactly I had seen once the c