A24 is best known for releasing films with large amounts of buzz and hype. Hereditary is only the latest film of this caliber, boasting a story that’s no doubt memorable and horrific. As you can see in the latest trailer below, they’re still pushing that aspect. The film also has a bit of a viral campaign going on, where you can visit an Etsy page which belongs to one of the main characters. The character being Charlie, “a girl with a penchant for arts & crafts that will haunt your nightmares.”
It certainly sounds like nothing good will come for these characters, and if that’s not a good setup for your horror film I’m not sure what is.
As for the plot…
When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.
Hereditary will release on June 8, 2018.
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