Hereditary

The reason this movie wasn´t on this year´s Motel X festival is beyond me...

I´m not into ghost stories but this was one was more than just a ghost story. Follows the demise of a family that recently lost their matriarch: Annie is a mother who has to go through her mother´s death. Soon after, in an accident, her 13-year-old daughter Charlie dies in what I can only describe as one of the most awful deaths possible. She secretly blames Peter, her oldest son, since he was the one who was driving the car with Charlie on the back when the accident occurred and tensions start to rise. Things get pretty fucked up when Annie does a séance to communicate with Charlie, instructed by her recent friend Joan, who is also a medium and not really what she seems.

The movie is ok. Great photography and great performances, especially by Toni Collette who plays Annie. Has a very twisted, "what the fuck did I just saw" ending and a couple of disturbing scenes, like Charlie´s decapitated head on the road after her death.
Don´t expect jump scares, it´s not one of those movies (thank god). It´s a bit slow and long but it´s tense and it plays a lot with that type of horror. The winning point of this movie is really the superb performances by the actors, really amazing. It´s worth to watch if only for that.

Highly recommendable but still is not worth all the hype around it. Pretty good though.

IMDB:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7784604/

Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_(film)