The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 155: Hereditary (2018)
Added 2025-10-20 23:18:37 +0000 UTCOn this week's Watchcast it's all about the horrors of the family variety in Ari Aster's Hereditary! Join us as Brad takes his first trek through the movie's minefield of guilt, grief, and grandma's weird hobbies, while Alex and Vinny ponder how it lands when you know what's coming.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 155: Hereditary (2018)
(00:00:12) - Intro.
(00:01:06) - Our film this week: Hereditary!
(00:08:58) - On Ari Aster and how this movie got made.
(00:14:06) - What's up with Paimon, generally.
(00:22:39) - Back to production and cast talk.
(00:30:54) - Jumping into the set-up for the movie.
(00:38:54) - Annie's eulogy, and getting to know your parents' weird beliefs.
(00:44:05) - Establishing the family dynamic, and a big honkin' grief dump.
(00:49:41) - Break!
(00:50:01) - Charlie gets weird, and Annie dumps a lot of grief.
(00:59:54) - An ill-fated night of revelry.
(01:10:34) - The accident, and the aftermath.
(01:16:40) - Where Alex thinks the movie makes its big transition.
(01:28:05) - From car crash art to a car crash of a family dinner.
(01:32:52) - Never accept seances from strangers.
(01:42:36) - Annie's meltdown has begun.
(01:45:23) - Opening a big box of backstory.
(01:55:08) - Clean your attics, people!
(01:59:12) - How's Annie?
(02:02:18) - Not great.
(02:06:57) - Is this your king?
(02:11:19) - Final thoughts.
(02:19:57) - List rankings, and housekeeping for next week's movie: When Evil Lurks!
(02:25:36) - Outro.
Comments
This is one of those ones where I sort of like it but have never gotten the hype. The sister accident stuff is incredibly affecting and distressing and works really well as horror and existential grief for me, and all the later haunting/supernatural stuff just doesn't work for me at all. I think it's a pretty good film and some of the highs are incredibly high, but I can't really hold it up as this S-tier piece of new horror canon that it pretty rapidly became.
Peter L Eldred
2025-11-03 04:57:26 +0000 UTCIt was not unusual at all for my mom to 1) force me into social situations when I was being anti-social and 2) force me to bring my younger brother of 4 years places when I was hanging out with my friends.
Michael McCarthy
2025-10-22 19:11:43 +0000 UTC
