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Allsummerlong,Ivehadpeoplebreathlesslytellme,"Youneedtoseethismovie."Ivebeendownthisroadbefore.ItwascalledHereditary,AriAsterslastfilm.Idebatedneverwatchingthisfilm,butthenIreasonedthatasmuchasIdetestedItFollows,IlovedUndertheSilverLake.MaybeAsterwouldhitpaydirtinthisone.Afterall,IlovefolkhorrorfilmslikeTheWickerManandBloodOnSatansClaw.Howbadcoulditbe?Woahboy.DaniArdorisdealingwithalot.Hersisterhaskilledherparentsandthenherself.ThishasalsopushedheralreadyfailingrelationshipwithherboyfriendCh...
All summer long, Ive had people breathlessly tell me, "You need to see this movie."Ive been down this road before. It was called Hereditary, Ari Asters last film.
I debated never watching this film, but then I reasoned that as much as I detested It Follows, I loved Under the Silver Lake.
Maybe Aster would hit paydirt in this one. After all, I love folk horror films like The Wicker Man and Blood On Satans Claw. How bad could it be?
Woah boy.
Dani Ardor is dealing with a lot. Her sister has killed her parents and then herself. This has also pushed her already failing relationship with her boyfriend Christian. Somehow, they stay together the whole way to summer, when she learns that his Swedish friend Pelle is going home to his commune family for a once in every ninety years ritual and is taking Christian and his friends Mark and Josh.
Christian had no intention of telling her about the trip. In fact, his friends want them to break up. But then shes there ...