Being a documentary of sorts and being filmed completely on handheld cameras that characters used is brilliant. The one shining quality of the film is the way it was shot. I would even go as far to say that “Hereditary,” is what “Blair Witch Project” wanted to be…creepy, disorienting, turning the familiar unfamiliar. Maybe the entire part of “Blair Witch Project” was to make it not so exciting, to make us look in the dark corners of the video feed in expectation to find a creepy dark figure, but I still feel like I can get the same feeling when watching a film like “Hereditary,” and get a better payoff. I think it’s okay for me to have expected more. But it’s not like it was the 80s where a child dummy was thrown down the stairs like “Pet Sematary”. There were scenes five minutes too long consisting of characters just wailing in the woods, and a deeply underdeveloped horror aspect to the film that’s supposed to be associated with scary Halloween films.Īnd yes, I know, it was 1999 and things are just naturally more graphic nowadays. There was some fake blood and a man standing in an abandoned house. I kept holding out with each minute, waiting and waiting for something to happen. It does have its merits! Just a miniscule amount of them. So sorry if you’re a cult classic follower or absolutely love the film. There are minor spoilers ahead, but they’re nothing special. And let me tell you…I could have done without it. If there was any time for me to watch it, it was now. My latest endeavor was “The Blair Witch Project,” a classic I hadn’t seen before. You may have noticed my attempts to read as many horror books my stressed out college student hands and eyes could get a hold of in brief moments of calm, but I have also been watching my share of horror films too. In my pursuit to keep the Halloween spirit alive during a truly unpredictable time, I have been consuming all the scary content I can.
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