Hereditary: Second trailer for horror branded 'scariest movie in years'
The movie has been compared to Rosemary’s Baby and The Wicker Man by critics
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Your support makes all the difference.After receiving resoundingly positive reviews and being touted as the “scariest movie in years”, excitement for Hereditary has reached a new high.
Distributed by A24 (The Witch, Green Room, Lady Bird), the horror movie – which reaches UK cinemas 15 June – has received a new, terrifying trailer.
The synopsis reads as follows: “When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
“The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited.”
Directed by Ari Aster and starring Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne and The Handmaid’s Tale star Ann Dowd, the movie received its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight section.
Following the screening, Hereditary was deemed “the most traumatically terrifying horror movie in ages” by The AV Club, with Variety praising its haunted house chills which are said to evoke classics such as Rosemary’s Baby and The Wicker Man.
Hereditary arrives in the UK a week after the US (8 June).
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