I don't get the comparisons at all.
I found The Witch unwatchably dull and un-involving and pretentious as hell. Had to switch it off after 40 minutes.
But this film is the real deal.
The Witch was excellent, this was awful.
sharePlease excuse Kaze, he was in a car accident recently, he is recovering from a very serious head injury and he doesn't know what he saying.
RAJH you are hilarious dude. so desperate to insult me but really just a laughing stock. go back to making your paycheck defending this pos.
shareI know I am hilarious.
But you do realize the vast majority agree with me on this film, right?
You're not so deluded that you don't even see this, are you?
I like them both, though I probably like The Witch better.
shareAgreed. This is what The Witch tried to be
What this film did right is that it got a lead with great acting chops. Toni Collette is an underrated veteran actress. Anya Taylor-Joy is a kid, it'll be years before she becomes anywhere near as good as Collette. In psychological horrors you NEED a strong lead performance. Collette hit it out of the park. Taylor-Joy is just a very pretty face
Plus it made you care about the family characters. The Witch handicapped itself with the "time period language" gimmick. It's hard to create sympathetic characters when you can hardly understand what the hell they're saying. The language was a gimmick, plain and simple. Sure, critics will praise it for its "authenticity", but no single movie viewer would rather listen to dialogue that takes work to grasp over dialogue that is easy to grasp
And Hereditary provides much clearer answers. The titular "Witch" is not even a real character, she's more of a plot device. We only see her a couple of times and nothing about her is ever really explained. Again, some critics will defend this kind of lazy storytelling by saying "not everything needs to be spoon fed, it's good to leave some mystery". It's a BS cop out. The Witch could either turn invisible or move really fucking fast, based on how the baby just vanished. She could also shapeshift or cast illusions, judging by how the little boy saw her as a young buxom wench. No limit or consistency to her powers is ever established. In supernatural horror you need to delineate some basic rules, or else it raises the question of why the evil thing doesn't just massacre everyone immediately