While this year’s Sundance was pretty subdued and low-key, a horror movie called, Hereditary, has traumatised the Sundance Film Festival audience and its trailer finally released today.
Hereditary stars Toni Collette, is the story of the Graham family, who is grieving after the death of their beloved grandmother. Strange things start happening as the the funeral is underway and, well, you get the drift. The film has been called ‘a new generation’s The Exorcist’ by Time Out. Critics are already calling it a top contender for scariest movie of the year.
No seriously, people at Sundance couldn’t stop talking about Hereditary. Here are some reactions:
HEREDITARY is so disquieting, you’ll be gasping for air in the theater. Utterly believable supernatural horror. There will be no scarier movie this year. If there is, it means we’re in a new golden age. #Sundance
— Joshua Rothkopf (@joshrothkopf) January 23, 2018
Holy shit that was incredible. One of the most disturbing and terrifying films in years. TRUST ME. You WILL be hearing about #Hereditary. I have not been that truly horrified in years. If you’re up at #Sundance see it immediately. I LOVED this film. This is what horror is.
— Jeff Dixon (@thejeffdixon) January 23, 2018
THE BEST #hereditary I can’t even explain in words what that did to me
— Sasha Lane (@SashaBianca23) January 22, 2018
I just saw the scariest movie I have ever ever ever seen in my entire life. I. Am. Shook. #Hereditary #Sundance
— Oscar! __ (@Oscar) January 22, 2018
HEREDITARY: #Sundance officially becomes yearly launching pad for all future genre defining horror movies. I AM LEFT PARALYZED BY THIS MOVIE. And Toni Colette! Her performance walks a tightrope of frailty and hysteria. Think Blue Jasmine for the horror genre.
— Jason (@jasonosia) January 25, 2018
After getting hyped with all the tweets, we finally got our first glimpse of what everyone at Sundance seemed to be going on about about with Hereditary‘s first trailer that dropped yesterday—and it looks like the critics weren’t playing. We all inherit some bad habits and peculiarities from our parents but Hereditary takes this idea to a whole new level. In the two-minute trailer, a young girl chops a dead bird’s head off, someone is on fire and an army of ants devours a sleeping body. The silent snapping sound throughout the trailer is pretty freaky too.
Watch the trailer right here:
