What was so dull about it?
You had more variation and interesting details than most horror films.
Just some examples:
1. the miniatures. Not a huge deal. But a fun detail. The way she told stories of terrible persona events was eerie and a bit interesting. Instead of just making the main character have a generic job that was uninteresting, they added something more unique and fascinating.
2. I liked the plot about how the son had a long hatred towards his mom because he thought she tried to kill him while claiming to sleepwalk. That's a kind of weird background story that many horror films have. But Hereditary did a good job of making it show in the interactions between those characters. Like in the dinner scene, and the scene where Annie told her son she didn't even wanna have him.
3. Scenes that are intense as hell without relying on horror. Like the decapitation in the car.
4. I thought they did a good job of combining drama and suspense. In most horror films you would not have had the dramatic aftermath of how Peter felt while driving home after the accident, and seeing Annie dealt with the grief etc. They would've just glossed over that part. But here they actually made me pay attention to the drama, instead of just "waiting for the next scare", as I normally do during the mundane parts of regular horror films.
5. I didn't know where the film was heading. I was surprised by the direction it took and that is rare these days.
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