At the beginning of the year, Sundance's hit horror film "Hereditary Doom" was finally unveiled. It tells the story of a series of strange events in the grandmother's death family. The story of the collapse was immediately attracted by the director's excellent scene scheduling, the actors' excellent performances, the uncomplicated details and several amazing horror treatments. It is rare that the director's feature debut is so accurate, almost I can book the best horror movie of the year. After reading some background information and details about the movie, I am afraid that it will make the horror movie superficial. After watching it, I haven't written anything for a long time. Feeling creepy, I wrote a review of this film in the past two days while the sense of horror has subsided.
The following contains a lot of spoilers. Those who have not seen the movie and are used to avoiding horror movies should not read it.
Don't get too close
It's dark inside
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide
Paymon, the ninth of Solomon's seventy-two demon gods, is one of the eight gods in hell, ruling the west, and a faithful believer of Lucifer. He has a female face and a male body, riding a single peak. Camel, wearing a crown, has a very high attainments in art, science and culture, and exudes a mysterious and noble imperial air.
Paimon came and the cult was born. An important task of the cult was to give Paimon flesh. One of the faithful believers, Grandma Ellen, was willing to welcome the arrival of the devil in the name of the family. She wrote in a letter to her daughter: "At the end of everything , you'll understand that all the losses are worth it, and our sacrifices are nothing compared to the rewards we get."
The grandmother forced her son and husband to death, and was defined as a dissociative identity disorder. The grandmother died of old age, but all this was inherited by her daughter Annie's cult personality, but the other side of A's dual personality did not have the lingering lingering of cults. Trying to maintain a normal family and protecting his son Peter, but in the end neglected his daughter Charlie. Annie thinks it's her mother Ellen who sacrificed her blood relationship and ignored her family, but is this really the case for the behavioral logic of the cult or Paimon's curse?
The word "hereditary" in "Hereditary Doom" directly refers to the object of the curse of the culprit Paimon, and the foundation of this object seems to come from blood, connecting the core part of the family, and the most direct reason that prompted Ellen to abandon blood is that she met Paimon. after the blood has been detached faith, she Pyrmont is worship, trust, without reservation, even she wants to be the devil's bride, this feeling completely above the blood as the foundation of the family, and maybe that is near The necessary sacrifice of the devil.
Don't come close to me, there will be no light here, are you willing to come close to me, I know that the dark fire in your heart is about to stir, dedicate yourself to my devotion, I know that you have the same desire as mine in your heart.
I want to hide the truth
I want to shelter you to build a heaven that shelters you
But with the beast inside
There's nowhere we can hide
At the beginning of the film, a panoramic close-up of the small tree house is given to the place where the attachment ceremony took place. After that, the camera slowly pulled back, and the indoor scene appeared in the picture. In the film, there are many operation modes of the camera slowly pushing and pulling, which is a little messy. The weird music creates a terrifying atmosphere in place, and then the camera pans to Annie, who is working on the side. Annie is playing with her handicrafts, and the image of a mother with artistic attainments is brought into view, which is in line with Paimon's background in art. and together, also hand-woven carpets and Ellen Charlie likes DTY toy decapitated same strain appears to constitute a family talent, with the deepening of the story, which with the devil in order to enjoy the same, the same show artistic talent was more like the devil in them The imprint left by wandering around, the curse of the family blood.
Mutual aid mother Annie said that her mother suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and is accompanied by Alzheimer's. Similarly, Annie seems to have the same identity cognitive disorder as her mother, and the film portrays more like having The role of dual personality is distinguished by sleepwalking. Annie in sleepwalking is a typical cult personality. Annie without sleepwalking is still the mother who loves her children, because her mother forced her husband and son to death, making Annie realize that gender may be a difference. Based on whether the family is safe, Annie will raise her daughter Charlie, who is considered safe, to her grandmother, while keeping her son Peter by her side.
This seemingly reasonable arrangement has inadvertently affected the difference in mothers' care for their children. This also indirectly contributed to the accidental death of Charlie, who died violently in front of his family in a seemingly unexpected, extreme and terrifying way. This scene undoubtedly broke the gender defense line and psychological expectations arranged by the mother's peace of mind. Peter, who witnessed the tragedy of his sister's tragic death, collapsed in the mirror. After Charlie's accident, the camera has been focusing on Peter. Peter responded to the tragic death of his sister in a nearly freeze-frame way . The blood pressure almost burst the body, and all the emotions were twisted into a blank freeze frame. This is my favorite indirect treatment in the whole film. It did not deliberately create horror, but looked at this turning point from a side and human perspective. The space outside the painting is wide, but the content inside the painting is also rich enough. It is from this moment that women cannot escape bad luck, and the blood family that the mother is trying to maintain begins to collapse.
No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come
This is my kingdom come
The devil Paimon needs to take advantage of the situation and needs a man. Charlie's previous series of strange behaviors have already suggested that Paimon is already in Charlie's body at this time, and Charlie's accident in Peter's car can be seen as a devil attached to a man. One move of his body weakens Peter's will, easily enters Peter's body, and becomes the real king.
Grandma Ellen used her family and the devil to sign a transaction contract with blood as face value. Annie, a normal mother, tried to prevent the transaction from happening until she dragged her husband into this game, but burned her husband who was not related by blood. , Annie's hope was completely disintegrated, Annie's cult personality prevailed, and the family supported by emotion and blood was destroyed. When Annie tried to burn the notebook that summoned the devil, but burned herself, Annie was still thinking about the curse of blood. She begged her husband who represented the scientific truth to help her complete this act, but her husband who had no blood relationship was set on fire. At that time, the family doom that Annie always believed was no longer a simple blood relationship. The huge loss and loss caused Annie's belief to be torn apart. At this moment, not only the blood flowing, but the house and the family in a broad sense seemed to be part of the contract between Paimon and Ellen. A part of it, above the science and art, representing the weapon of human evolution is useless in the face of the devil, all kinds of fears are combined in one, and there is no resistance at all.
In the end, Peter was driven by Paimon to Paimon's dummy. The dummy's head was replaced by Charlie's rotten head. Under the kneeling of the cult members, Paimon completed the ritual of possession, a family was wiped out, a demon Use the flesh to come to the world.
"Hereditary Doom" tells the story of the collapse of a family with the background of ancient mysticism. The level of the play is already amazing. The director's excellent scene scheduling and complete text structure can withstand scrutiny. This is a "drama" set up. Horror movies, whether they are interpreted from reality or from the heart, will make the movie overload eclipsed. Perhaps the husband's scientific belief and the artistic talent of the family woman will give a certain symbolic meaning, but these are all paving the way for the suffocating horror, the director emphasized. It is the continuation of the family's misfortune, and there is nowhere to escape. This suffocation struggle is even more calm under the careful layout, forming a chess game in which the devil's claws are advancing step by step.
In this way, this exquisitely structured, story-based film, supplemented by director academy-style scheduling, may be the best horror film in recent times.
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