Hereditary

Hereditary (2018) follows a family and their kids after the death of their estranged grandmother when mysterious, tragic and grisly events start unfolding. The film is incredibly disturbing and horrifying to watch at times, scenes are often hard to watch mostly because of the grounded realism within. Characters are tormented and agonized by guilt and trauma while dealing with increasingly disturbing events. Also expect some language, drug use along with some nudity. VIOLENCE: SEVERE A bird flies into a window, blood stains. Afterwards a girl takes scissors and cuts the head off of the bird and carries it around often. A young mentally handicapped girl begins having an allergic reaction. She is shown struggling to breath as her and her brother rush to the hospital, she struggles and squirms in the back seat of the car before sticking her head out of the window to breath. The car swerves and she smashes her head on a telephone pole, a very brief shot of what appears to be her head getting knocked off is shown before the car stops. The brother drives home and then the next day we hear the little girls moms reaction when she opens up the car door to find a headless body (this is heard, not seen) she screams in terror before we see the severed head lying on the side of the road being eaten by ants. Entire parts of her face including mouth area are completely torn off and the image is very grisly and disturbing, even disgusting. During a sleep waking sequence, a boys face is shown being swarmed or eaten by ants however this isn’t graphic and she wakes up. A boy is strangled in bed but survives. A rotten corpse with no head is shown in an attic. During school, a boy is possessed by a demon, lifts his hand up into the air and his face is shown swollen and he makes noises resembling the allergic reaction from earlier, he then bashes his face against the desk twice spurting our blood each time before recoiling in terror screaming and crying while blood pours out of his nose and face. A man is lit on fire, he screams as he burns all over his body all at once before the scene quickly cuts. Later, we see his petrified burnt and charred corpse on the floor. A woman repeatedly slams her face against an attic door in order to try and get inside. This is very scary, and less violent. A woman saws her own head off with a wire. This is heard loudly before a boy looks up at the ceiling where she is shown floating while sawing at her neck, blood squirts and sprays out of her neck shown at up-close and distanced angles (both graphic) until her head eventually hits the floor and in terror the boy jumps out of the window of the house into the grass. During the closing moments of the film, we see bodies all with missing heads, one shows maggots crawling within the neck and the other is fresh with blood poured everywhere around it. The room is surrounding with naked people who get on their knees to warship a statue which has placed on it the severed head of the little girl, now rotten. Her head appears to represent a demon which they warship. The scene is very haunting. The violence and gore, while not necessarily frequent is always disturbing and very hard to watch whether they are graphic or not. LANGUAGE: MODERATE Around 15 uses of “f*ck” with additional uses in a rap song towards the beginning which also uses words like “n*gga” and “p*ssy”, 8 uses of “sh*t”, 1 use of “godd*mn”, 1 written use of “d*ck”. Language is very tame compared to the content in the rest of the film, much like Ari Asters other film “Midsommar” SEXUAL CONTENT: MILD Some sexual references at the beginning amongst teens, none are strong. A sequence containing full nudity towards the end. First we see a naked man standing in a doorway (genitals shown), later him and other naked people including women are shown standing in an attic, later they are shown in the bushes and then eventually all of them are gathered in a tree house shown naked for an extended period of time. During this sequence we do see full frontal and backside nudity in an entirely non-sexual, ritualistic manner. DRUG CONTENT: MILD A teen smokes weed frequently towards the beginning of the film, he is shown smoking recreationally at home, smoking from a bong at a party, under the bleachers at school and at one point he suffers from a bad trip due to trauma hyperventilating and asking his friend to hold his hand. Drinking at a party is also shown. 15+ for disturbing grisly images and behavior, language, drug use and some graphic nudity