Both movies revolve around cults deadset on bringing demonic figures to the human world.
John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, and Maurice Evans also star.
The characters are fully realized, which makes their demise all the more effective.
Although the set-up is slow and deliberate, the finish is anything but.
The film crescendos in a full-frontal limb bending possession, without going totally over the top.
The placement of horror in the dark make these scenes particularly creepy.
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As strange events occur there, she begins to question her sanity and the motives of her enigmatic neighbors.
Directed by Roman Polanski and starring Mia Farrow, Rosemary’s Baby chronicles the chilling tale of Rosemary Woodhouse, the wife of an actor who, after finding out she is pregnant, begins to suspect that her unborn child is something far more sinister than a normal baby. John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, and Maurice Evans also star.
A24 are one of the most exciting production companies releasing movies today, and they have been behind some of the most interesting and unnerving horrors of recent years. Hereditary is the first movie by director Ari Aster, who then went on to produce another spectacular A24 folk horror a year later, Midsommar. Hereditary is a supernatural horror film that follows the Graham family and after the death of Annie Graham’s estranged mother, supernatural forces start messing with the family to disastrous consequences. Hereditary is a tense watch all the way through and there aren’t many scary films that keep up the same level of uncomfortableness so strictly. Hereditary delivers on some truly terrifying stuff and there are scenes that will leave you speechless including a decapitation, Ari Aster is not afraid to leave the audience uncomfortable. Toni Collette has never played a more convincing role, and she plays the distraught mother to perfection and does at least 4 different things in this movie that will leave you in awe. There is a lingering supernatural feel as the movie crawls along, and the initial set up is slow and considered. The other characters are both superbly acted and directed, and they paint a brilliant picture of a mysterious family who have plenty of issues. The characters are fully realized, which makes their demise all the more effective. Although the set-up is slow and deliberate, the finish is anything but. The film crescendos in a full-frontal limb bending possession, without going totally over the top. The placement of horror in the dark make these scenes particularly creepy.
In this psychological thriller, a young woman is forced into a mysterious cult after moving into a seemingly ordinary apartment complex. As strange events occur there, she begins to question her sanity and the motives of her enigmatic neighbors.
