Nolan Fans

I doubt people are going to connect with this the way they do with Hereditary. Some of the screenplay stuff sounds almost hilarious instead of scary.

I was really pumped for this until people I knew who LOVED Hereditary were talking to me about how the ending is hilarious to them. I read the end of the script and I agree. This goes for shock and weirdness in a way that Hereditary does not, but it feels cheap and pretentious to me in a way that film doesn't. It's essentially The Wicker Man with weird sexual scenes. It focuses on old people and collective moaning and sighing to make it uncomfortable. There's literally a scene where a woman rocks back and forth and says she can feel a man's seed inside her. I'm seeing people online say the script is "more disturbing" than Hereditary, but weird does not necessarily make it disturbing to me, and it just feels forced to me. And I'm not sure Aster is strong enough to make this the disturbing event he wants it to be with a script like that.

Hereditary is something wholly original and refreshing, but this feels like a mix of a bunch of things I've seen so many people try to do before. The script read like someone being like "Yeah! We're going THERE!" without realizing that what it's doing has the potential to make large groups of audience members burst out laughing.

And are they actually making the final shot of the movie the poster? Jeez guys.