Annie Graham’s mother has died. Annie builds miniature houses for a living, her husband Steve is a therapist, her son Peter is sixteen and smokes, and her daughter Charlie, thirteen, makes a clicking noise with her tongue and was her grandmother’s favourite. At the funeral, Annie’s eulogy admits she did not know her mother at all. Hereditary was Ari Aster’s first film, and it has one scene in the first forty minutes that nobody who has seen it needs reminding of.
What Happens To The Grahams
Peter takes Charlie to a party. What happens on the way home is the end of the first act and the film is never the same. Annie meets Joan, played by Ann Dowd, at a grief group, and Joan teaches her a seance. The seance works. The things Annie’s mother was involved in, the name Paimon, the people in the trees and the attic, come out over the last hour, and the ending in the treehouse is one of the most committed horror endings ever shot.
Why Toni Collette Should Have Been Nominated
The dinner table scene where Annie tells Peter what she thinks of him is the performance of her career and the Academy ignored it. Alex Wolff’s Peter spends the second half in a state of shock that looks real because it partly was. The miniatures that open the film are the film’s own structure. A24 released it and it made 80 million dollars.
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