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The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 155: Hereditary (2018) (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-20 23:18:37
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2025-10-27 21:33:37
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2026-06
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On 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.

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Zeenius

My interpretation of the of the possession is that it wasn't like Damien in The Omen, where the demon took a very active role. Here, it felt more like Paimon -and by extension his followers - were trying to direct the fabric of causality to help move pieces into place through planning every step beforehand and creating each circumstance. I've never seen a cult display more "we've got our bases covered" energy than this one. Which definitely makes everything feel all the more hopeless.

Kevin Marshall

Perfect tongue click on the intro, Alex.

Michael Polston

When I saw this movie the first time, I didn't like it because I'm very hit or miss with this sort of occult subject matter. Most of the time I find it very silly, and that was the case here. Watching it the second time yesterday I liked it quite a bit more, but for me I think this movie would work so much better as a simple family horror dealing with grief and/or mental illness. But what do I know, because I think Midsommar is a superior movie in every way (with the exception that Toni Colette isn't in it).

BeefNoodleSoup

Paimon definitely watched Final Destination

logan

Throughout this Brad wonders why the needed to behead the grandmother, my read on that is she was the spirit doing all the haunting in this movie, so to let her out they had to lose her head.

YASHA

The way the supernatural elements creep up on this movie is my favourite aspect, you're dropped into it quite naturally. I love how the seance scenes are like genuinely unnerving despite not much actually happening.

WolfPants

I am rather worried about Vinnie watching the next one. I feel he's especially not going to like that one scene

StrawHatLink

It 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.

Peter L Eldred

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.