Hereditary

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Toni Collette as Annie Graham
• Gabriel Byrne as Steve Graham
• Alex Wolff as Peter Graham
• Milly Shapiro as Charlie Graham
• Ann Dowd as Joan
• Mallory Bechtel as Bridget
• Christy Summerhays as Charlie’s Teacher
• Morgan Lund as Mr. Davies
• Jake Brown as Brendan
• Harrison Nell as Student #1
• BriAnn Rachele as Student #2
• Heidi Méndez as Spanish Speaking Woman
• Moises L. Tovar as Translator
• Jarrod Phillips as Group Leader
• Brock McKinney as Aaron
• Zachary Arthur as Boy in Room
• David Stanley as Man at Wake
• William ‘Bus’ Riley as History Teacher
• Austin R. Grant as Stoner #1
• Gabriel Monroe Eckert as Stoner #2

Storyline:

When her mentally ill mother passes away, Annie (Toni Collette), her husband (Gabriel Byrne), son (Alex Wolff), and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural. They each begin to have disturbing, otherworldly experiences linked to the sinister secrets and emotional trauma that have been passed through the generations of their family.

About Movie:

Hereditary is an American horror film written and directed by Ari Aster in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, and centers on a grieving family that becomes haunted by unsettling events after the death of their secretive grandmother.

Ari Aster’s earlier work, particularly his short film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, caught the attention of A24, leading the studio to greenlight Hereditary as his first feature film. Aster envisioned the film primarily as a family drama, structured in two distinct halves.

Filming began in February 2017 in Utah. The exteriors of the Graham family’s house and the treehouse were shot in Summit County, Utah, with the cemetery scene filmed at Larkin Sunset Gardens in Sandy, Utah. School scenes were captured at West High School and Utah State Fairpark, while all other interiors, including the two versions of the treehouse, were constructed on a sound stage. The sets were designed to allow for removable walls, enabling wide-angle shots that contributed to the film’s signature dollhouse-like aesthetic.

Hereditary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2018, and was released theatrically in the U.S. on June 8, 2018. It received widespread acclaim and grossed over $87 million, making it A24’s highest-grossing film at the time, a record it held until Everything Everywhere All at Once surpassed it in 2022.

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