![]() The music is low and brooding, with sustained chords that rise and then die in a swarm of chittery digital interference sounds or repeating musical motifs. The long pauses between lines of dialogue are colored in using uncomfortable atmospheres. The whole situation feels askew and things become steadily creepier. The daughter gives a strange eulogy while the granddaughter draws an odd picture. It begins as an uneasy experience of a family attending a grandmother’s funeral. ![]() ![]() Decapitation plus disinterment plus demonic possession equals disturbing. Director Ari Aster’s film Hereditary - in theaters now, starts out quiet and creepy, and then before you know it the story takes a disturbing turn into darker territory. They say it’s the quiet ones that you have to look out for and I feel that philosophy holds true for films too.
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