One of the best horror movies to have come out in the 2010’s, 2018s’ Hereditary was an extraordinary movie for the way it showed the talent of actress Toni Colette, as well as the way it subverted the way a horror movie could disturb its audience.
And many years
later after
re-watching it for the third time, the most powerful impression it
gives me is for the way it treats grief and the way a family goes through it. I
have to warn about spoilers in this analysis, but they are necessary to explain
my point.
In a movie that opens with a funeral of the main characters’ mother and develops from there, the sense of loss is always present and the atmosphere of the movie is stifling, ominous and tense. The family goes through great pains, and the horror that surrounds the events takes a second place to the grief that they all have to process throughout. To me the scene where Gabriel Byrnes’ character quietly sobs in is character after almost having a car accident due to the stress he is suffering is probably one of the best to show the pain that grief inflicts on someone who has to carry the weight of his family tragedies alone.
And so does grief take centre stage in this horror movie, and when the horror of the supernatural takes over, the spectator is already too affected by the tension and depressive nature of it to have an emotional armour left to fight it. For it is grief that leads the main character (played masterfully, by Toni Colette) to embrace the supernatural and thus bring the ultimate destruction upon on her own family.
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